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  • Minimalist Music

    by George Grella ...
    Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
    Minimalist Music looks critically into the music's past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism's ongoing future.Minimalism as a genre is best defined not by any style or flavor but by its means. Certain rhythms and chords in other music may identify things like jazz or bossa nova or reggae; take those same elements and put them through the processes of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Miles Davis' Bitches Brew

    by George Grella Jr. ...
    Narrated by Jaime Lincoln Smith ...
    Series series 33 1/3

    Unabridged

    3 hours 10 min

    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Minimalist Music

    by George Grella Jr. ...
    Narrated by Ryan Wilson ...
    Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 2 min

    Minimalist Music looks critically into the music’s past, shows how the genre thrives across styles, and points the way toward minimalism’s ongoing future.Minimalism as a genre is best defined not by any style or flavor but by its means. Certain rhythms and chords in other music may identify things like jazz or bossa nova or reggae; take those same elements and put them through the processes of ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die

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    A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz—author of the phenomenal one,zero Places to See Before You Die —does for travel, Tom Moon recommends one,zero recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, and the sheer fun of great music.This is a book both broad and deep, drawing ... Read more

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  • Michael Jackson's Dangerous

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  • Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert

    by Peter Elsdon ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
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