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Eddie Condon (1905-1973) pioneered a kind of jazz popularly known as Chicago-Dixieland, though musicians refer to it simply as Condon style. Played by small ensembles with driving beat, it was and is an informal, exciting music, slightly disjointed and often mischievous. The same could...

The emergence of Jack Teagarden as an important jazz stylist was a significant feature of the '20s jazz scene. He brought a maturity to the sound of the trombone and until late in his life played with a laconic grace that few, if any,...

Moonlight Serenade, Sunrise Serenade, Little Brown Jug, In the Mood... These and other memorable tunes endeared Glenn Miller to millions in the Swing Era and all who recall those times. After playing trombone and arranging for leading orchestras of the Dorsey brothers, Ray Noble,...

I Am Morbid tells the astounding story of David Vincent, former bassist and singer with Morbid Angel, and now outlaw-country performer and leader of the I Am Morbid supergroup. Written with the bestselling author Joel McIver, it's an autobiography that transcends the heavy metal...

A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, and a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires, Tchaikovsky's life is explored in full by the incomparable John Suchet. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the most successful composers that Russia has ever produced,...

The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is the most comprehensive book on the words of America's greatest songwriter. Clinton Heylin is the world's leading Dylan biographer and expert, and he has arranged the songs--including a...

Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, as well as solo artist, for more than two decades. An activist, educator, and emcee, Riley's singular lyrical stylings combine hip-hop poetics, radical...

Everything You Need to KnowYou are about to discover proven steps and strategies from music producers on how to produce music, even if you have zero experience in recording and audio engineering. You will be able to learn everything you need to know in...

Thank You is a tribute to music legend Chris Cornell, written in the words of his international family of fans. Poems, reminiscences, letters, expressions of love and grief, the overwhelming theme is one of gratitude - to the singer, the songwriter, the man. The...

Every now and then, a song inspires a cultural conversation that ends up looking like a brawl. Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, released in 1969, is a prime example of that important role of popular music. Okie immediately helped to frame an ongoing discussion...

Upon its release, Don't Break the Oath charted fifth on the official British heavy metal album list and was supported by a two month long sold-out American tour in early 1985. The band's controversial stage appearance with burning crosses, a microphone stand formed as...

Sex, death and nostalgia are among the impulses driving Beatles fandom: the metaphorical death of the Beatles after their break-up in 1970 has fueled the progressive nostalgia of fan conventions for 48 years; the death of John Lennon and George Harrison has added pathos...

Billy Joe Shaver wrote nine of the ten songs included on Waylon Jennings's landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. He has been named by Ray Wylie Hubbard,...

Backstage, on the bus, or in the studio, saxophonist Jon Gordon, winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone competition, chats with several generations of great musicians. From Jay McShann to Renee Rosnes, Jazz Dialogues lets the reader hang out with dozens of...

Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame that followed her abandonment by Aristotle Onassis and the rapid deterioration...

Too many people start with bad guitar lessons, get frustrated and give up.Local guitar teachers seem like a great option at first, but you could risk getting stuck with a wannabe rock star who can't really teach you. Or you could try reading but...

Joel Miller is an ex- roadie for Guns N' Roses, Poison, Stone Temple Pilots, & The Cranberries. The book is an often-hilarious personal account of a young man in his early 20's trying to be a "good" roadie while also trying to understand life's...

Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion) and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it focuses on the...

THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM, CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM'S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES"A passionate look at the Detroit rapper's music . . . an...

The first performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. The initial...

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to overwhelm the cities. Out of the piety of private citizens and the apathy of local governments, the system of conservatori was created to house,...

An authoritative account of the life and work of Francis Poulenc, one of the most prolific and striking figures in twentieth-century classical music "An assured overview of Poulenc's life and work."--Alex Ross, New Yorker "Essential reading for anyone interested in the French musical culture...

A comprehensive look at another side of the famous topical songwriter Phil Ochs, showcasing his prose and poetry from across the full span of his life.Author: Phil OchsISBN-10: 1493051474ISBN-13: 9781493051472Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2020Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.30h x 6.30w x 1.30dReview Citation(s): Library...

Written by a jazz teacher for jazz teachers, The Real Jazz Pedagogy Book is based on the premise that successful jazz teachers must be constantly working four main areas: 1) the wind instruments--including tone production, intonation, and section playing skills; 2) playing styles correctly--such...

A fascinating, authoritative biography of one of the most commercial, controversial, and influential musicians of all time In his three decades-long of recording, Prince has had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist since the Beatles to have...

More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles "Yardbird" Parker--known to his friends and fans simply as "Bird."Parker's virtuoso technique, melodic genius, and inspired improvisations helped launch a whole new era in jazz, an era...

"Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage--or should one say, duet--of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates." -- Christopher Buckley, Forbes"This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional--and inestimable--merit of being true."...

A legend in music, with a career that spanned five decades, Cohen was globally renowned, praised and acclaimed for his poetry, novels, lyrics and artistic work. Cohen's most famous song, "Hallelujah" has been covered by such artists as John Cale, Rufus Wainwright and Jeff...

"As close to an autobiography as we're going to get from John Prine, Prine on Prine captures the inimitable, whimsical voice of one of our greatest songwriters . . . Nashville legend Holly Gleason knew the man and assembled this brilliant collection with a...

"Here we come. Walking down the street. We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet. Hey, hey, we're The Monkees "The idea of creating a tv series about a wacky rock group similar to The Beatles had been unsuccessfully kicked around Universal Pictures...

Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.Author: Constantin FlorosISBN-10: 1574670255ISBN-13: 9781574670257Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages:...

In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting ) career. In 1974, Prince released his first book, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the...

Henry Roeland Roy Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair, was an influential musical talent in early New Orleans rhythm and blues. This collection of photographs and memories documents Fess's role in New Orleans music and popular American music in general. Along with vintage photos,...

In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching...

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann's nineteenth-century Romantic milieu,...

GUITAR WORLD PRESENTS: STEVIE RAY VAUGHANAuthor: Guitar World MagazineISBN-10: 0879309717ISBN-13: 9780879309718Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2010Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d

On the back cover of one of his most groundbreaking solo albums, . . . Nothing like the Sun of 1987, Sting (Gordon Matthew Sumner, b. 1951 in Wallsend, UK) somberly stands close to a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The album...

Dave Krehbiel's fast-moving memoir, Through the Door: A Horn-Player's Journey, relates the adventures of a young musician who uses his musical talents to cover up his scholastic shortcomings. In so doing, he finds himself, miraculously, in the career of his dreams-playing principal horn for...

Forty years, twenty solo albums, numerous musical collaborations -- this book contains the lyrics and poems to over 350 works by Scottish singer-songwriter Chris Connelly, with a foreword by Shirley Manson.Author: Christopher John ConnellyISBN-10: 0966406575ISBN-13: 9780966406573Publisher: Shipwrecked IndustriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h...

Bach's Operas of the Soul is the first introduction to Bach's sacred cantatas for the general music lover.In clear and accessible language, Mark Ringer examines this vast output of masterpieces as the great musical dramatic creations that they. Bach's sacred cantatas represent an almost...

A facsimile of the second of William Eggleston's rare artist's booksWhen William Eggleston's (born 1939) second artist's book Morals of Visions was first published in 1978 in a limited edition of 15, only a handful of lucky people were able to obtain it; it...

This book is a detailed, first-hand account of M tley Cr e's Red, White & Cr e tour. After summing up the Cr e's history from the fans' perspective in their first-ever live album six years earlier, Paul Miles finally got his chance to...

The Kings of Leon came from America's Deep South in 2003 and made an impact on the British music scene that was more immediate and long-lasting than any other new band in years. They embarked on a sex, drug and booze-fuelled rampage through the...

Before there was Glenn Gould or Liberace, before there was Vladimir Horowitz, before there was Arthur Rubinstein . . . there was Frederic Chopin.One of music's first true superstars, Chopin set hearts aflutter around the world with some of the most beautiful piano compositions...

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most significant masters of vocal music --solo, choral, and operatic-- quite apart from his achievements in instrumental spheres. But what it cost him, and the determined bravery it took for his unusual...

(Percussion). Taking Center Stage is the definitive print retrospective and musical documentation of the career of one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, Neil Peart of Rush. Originally conceived as a companion to the groundbreaking 2011 3-disc DVD set of the same...

"Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056R" is a concerto for violin and piano in three movements composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1738. This modern, high-quality republication features wide margins and clear note heads, making it perfect for following the music and a...

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907) was a Norwegian pianist and composer. Today, he is generally considered to be one of the leading composers of the Romantic era, his music constituting part of the classical canon worldwide. He famously incorporated and developed Norwegian folk...

"Variations on a Theme of Paganini" is a piano composition written by Johannes Brahms in 1863 and based on Niccol Paganini's "Caprice No. 24 in A minor". Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) was a seminal German composer and pianist. He was incredibly popular and...

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period. He enjoyed wide acclaim in Germany and much of Europe, but was especially successful in Britain as a soloist and conductor. Mendelssohn composed many...