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  • Dream Lucky

    When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat...

    by Roxane Orgill ...

    $9.99 USD

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    Jazz Day

    The Making of a Famous Photograph

    by Roxane Orgill ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    What happens when you invite as many jazz musicians as you can to pose for a photo in 1950s Harlem? Playful verse and glorious artwork capture an iconic moment for American jazz. When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cello Suites

    J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

    by Eric Siblin ...
    An award-winning journey through Johann Sebastian Bach's six cello suites and the brilliant musician who revealed their lasting genius.One fateful evening, journalist and pop-music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites—an experience that set him on an epic quest to uncover the mysterious history of the entrancing compositions and their miraculous reemergence ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 27

    A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse

    by Howard Sounes ...
    When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. "I told him not to…." Kurt's mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of iconic stars who died at the same ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me

    What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life

    by Steven Hyden ...
    Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalries and what they say about life in this "highly entertaining" book (Rolling Stone) perfect for every passionate music fan.Beatles vs. Stones. Biggie vs. Tupac. Kanye vs. Taylor. Who do you choose? And what does that say about you? Actually -- what do these endlessly argued-about pop music rivalries say about us?Music opinions bring out passionate debate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Will You Take Me As I Am

    Joni Mitchell's Blue Period

    by Michelle Mercer ...
    Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations of people have come of age listening to the album, inspired by the way it clarified their own difficult emotions. Critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions. Will You Take Me As I Am -- the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Read the Beatles

    Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter

    Edited by June Skinner Sawyers ...
    A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab FourThere are, of course, many books on the Beatles, but this is the only one available that is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of journalism about the legendary band, before and after the breakup. Consisting of more than fifty articles, essays, interviews, record and movie reviews, poems, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Steely Dan's Aja

    by Don Breithaupt ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious, extended" work, the apotheosis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour ... Read more

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  • The Life of a Song Volume 1

    The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved songs

    by Jan Dalley, David Cheal ...
    Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant?These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Schumann

    by Eric Frederick Jensen ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted in both music and literature, many of his compositions were inspired by poetry and novels. For much of his life he was better known as a music critic than as a composer. But whether writing as critic or composer, what he produced was created by him as a reflection of his often ... Read more

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  • Music and Ethical Responsibility

    by Jeff R. Warren ...
    Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on how we listen to and act upon music. In Music and Ethical Responsibility, Jeff R. Warren ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Writing through Music

    Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics

    by Jann Pasler ...
    Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD