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The Definitive Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia, now fully updated from the illustrated edition, is the ultimate guide to two musical styles that have fundamentally influenced ...
The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings, and letters.
New York City native and gifted pianist George Gershwin blossomed as ...
For its initiates, jazz is instinctive and engaging - the way that popular music should be. For non-aficionados, it can be slippery and difficult to grasp ...
She is Pannonica de Koenigswarter, British baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius fighting against the whims of his ...
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of ...
This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader.
Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a ...
Charles Mingus is a musician, a mongrel musician who plays beautiful, who plays ugly, who plays lovely, who plays masculine, who plays feminine, who plays ...
If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician, you re holding it in your hands. For DownBeat ...
Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an ...
From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring ...
An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends
During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded ...
The definitive biography of the soul legend James Brown by National Book Award-winning novelist James McBrideThe music of James Brown was almost a genre in ...
