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“cicily janus”

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  • The New Face of Jazz

    An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow

    by Cicily Janus ...
    Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this great musical legacy.In their own words, artists such as McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval, Diane ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Footprints

    The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

    by Michelle Mercer ...
    Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz.Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Josephine Baker Story

    by Wise Publications ...
    This is the story of no ordinary life...Josephine Baker emerged from sordid poverty and racial intolorance in early 20th-century St Louis to delight audiences across the world becoming a genuine star of the stage. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gene Krupa: His Life & Times

    by Bruce Crowther ...
    The life and times of Gene Krupa Traces the life and career of the late drummer and assesses his influence on modern jazz. In depth account of Gene's life and the times surrounding that period. Includes selected discography and plenty of photographs. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • African Rhythms

    The Autobiography of Randy Weston

    by Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Stephane Grappelli: A Life in Jazz

    by Paul Balmer ...
    This riveting book by Paul Balmer is the definitive biography of a unique musician whose life spanned the 20th century.Stephane Grappelli's astonishing career ran on a parallel track to the history of Jazz itself. Born in Paris in 1908 Grappelli was to become a member of the greatest European Jazz band of them all - the pre-war Hot Club de France Quintet - playing Violin alongside gypsy Guitar ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Billie Holiday

    The Musician and the Myth

    by John Szwed ...
    **• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography •Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent**When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Billie Holiday: Her Life and Times

    by John White ...
    The life and times of Billie Holiday. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Strayhorn

    An Illustrated Life

    Edited by A. Alyce Claerbaut, David Schlesinger ...
    Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life is a stunning collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera celebrating Billy Strayhorn, one of the most significant yet under-appreciated contributors to 20th century American music. Released in commemoration of Strayhorn's centennial, this luxurious coffee-table book offers intimate details of the composer's life from musicians, scholars, and Strayhorn's closest ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Pat Metheny

    The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom

    Before 1970

    by David Toop ...
    Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music

    The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights

    by Dean Alger ...
    Lonnie Johnson (18941970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving brother moved to St. Louis, where he won a blues ... Read more

    $14.39 USD