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  • New Atlantis

    Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans

    de John Swenson ...
    At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • New Atlantis

    Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans

    de John Swenson ...
    At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • Visions of Jazz : The First Century

    The First Century

    de Gary Giddins ...
    Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman jazz critic Gary Giddins ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Keeper of the Flame

    A Biography of Nina Simone

    de Jennifer Warner ...
    The life of Nina Simone is one of blocked paths and surprising detours. Some people are born to an obvious destiny, only to find that society, circumstance, and chance steer them onto an entirely different course. Had Nina been born at a different time, she could very well have been a superstar of classical music at an early age. However, the severe oppression of African Americans in the United ... Leer más

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  • Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

    de Brian Harker ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • A Love Supreme

    The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

    de Ashley Kahn ...
    Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime.Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68

    de Keith Waters ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    The "Second Quintet" -- the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1960s -- was one of the most innovative and influential groups in the history of the genre. Each of the musicians who performed with Davis--saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams--went on to a successful career as a top player. The studio recordings released by this group made ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Moondog

    de Robert Scotto, Philip Glass ...
    There will be a feature documentary about Moondog premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in Sept 2013Free music download with this ebook purchase.This revised edition includes the free music download and text revisions. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

    de George Grella ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet ... Leer más

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  • Blue Nippon

    Authenticating Jazz in Japan

    de E. Taylor Atkins ...
    Japan’s jazz community—both musicians and audience—has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for cultural reasons, Japanese jazz “can’t swing.” In Blue Nippon E. Taylor Atkins shows how, strangely, Japan’s own attitude toward jazz is founded on this ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

    de Joel Dinerstein ...
    An "entertaining" study of the enduring concept of coolness, and the mix of cultures and historical events that shaped it ( The New York Times).Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom

    Spirituality and the Music

    Edición de Leonard Brown ...
    Edited by prominent musician and scholar Leonard Brown, John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music is a timely exploration of Coltrane's sound and its spiritual qualities that are rooted in Black American music-culture and aspirations for freedom. A wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews featuring many of the most eminent figures in Black American ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD