Creek Country boek met cd. Erik Kriek brengt als stripmaker en illustrator vele eenzame uren achter de tekentafel door. Strips maken is monnikenwerk en muziek is een vaste kompaan bij die...
Improvisation, spontaneity, fusion, freedom, innovation. Jazz has always been about more than music, and the ideas and moods of jazz have sent ripples through every branch of the arts....
Offers essays arguing that post-World War II American popular music decended from Louis Armstrong's jazz and Woody Guthrie's folk music, discussing such artists as Chet Baker, Ani DiFranco,...
Strands of jazz leap out of the package and lead you on an incredible journey. Jazz Legends features 26 photo-biographies of the greatest ever -- from Louis Armstrong to Lena Horne, Billie...
An essential part of every aficionado’s library, Black Beauty White Heat brings back innumerable memories of jazz’s early days. With more than 600 photographs, advertisements and record...
The author recounts his childhood, education and experiences as a jazz musician, shares his memories of Duke Ellington and other fellow performers, and describes his travels around the world
The first full-scale biography of the enduring first lady of country music The twentieth century had three great female singers who plumbed the darkest corners of their hearts and...
In this masterful compilation, world-recognized discographer Chris Sheridan draws together the most comprehensive reconstruction of Thelonious Monk's performances and recordings. Woven...
On the heels of swing, bebop lifted jazz from the dance floor into an art form powered by virtuoso players. This engaging collection of essays, biographies and reviews by veteran jazz...
Singer, composer, actress, lover, wife, writer, pleasure seeker, drug addict, icon, commodity, myth and mystery: Billie Holiday is still one of the most famous jazz vocalists of all time....
Music industry legend Bob Thiele will never forget the first time he heard a demo tape from a group of unknowns from New Mexico billed as Buddy Holly and the Crickets. "I was never as...
In this stunning biography of Josephine Baker, Phyllis Rose--author of the highly praised Parallel Lives--takes us into the glitter of Paris in the 1920s and a Europe transformed by the rise...
Argentina's recently established democracy endured the trauma of four major military uprisings between 1987 and 1990, continuing even after the rebels' original motivations faded. Exploring...
In 1919, the world stood at the threshold of the Jazz Age. The man who had ushered it there, however, lay murdered--and would soon plunge from international fame to historical obscurity. It...
Trumpeter Ernest 'Red' Nichols was an influential bandleader during the heyday of jazz in the Roaring Twenties, who nurtured the talents of such jazz luminaries as Jimmy Dorsey, Benny...
"Ben Sidran: A Life in The Music is much more than a musician's memoir; it's a picaresque story about a personal quest, the search for meaning at the beginning of a new millennium. Sidran...
Dial Records catered to jazz musicians and record collectors. Charlie Parker was one of the major jazz artists to record with Dial. His Dial sessions occurred at the personal depths and...
Whitney Balliett, jazz critic for The New Yorker for more than 30 years, is one of America's foremost jazz writers. "The most literate and knowledgeable living writer on jazz," Alistair...
Kenny Ball is arguably the most successful jazz trumpet player this side of the Atlantic. His autobiography is told with all the style, wit, and passion that you would expect of this...
Beginning with the previously undocumented first recording session of 16-year-old Russell in 1922, and ending in 1968 with a Mississippi riverboat party shortly before his death, this...
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington and his music have been an integral part of the American scene for most of the 20th Century. This interpretive biography offers insights into Ellington's...