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  • L'art de ranger ses disques

    Un petit guide impertinent, drôle mais très sérieux au fond, à l'usage des mélomanes ordinaires comme des maniaques du disque. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Claude Ranger

    Canadian Jazz Legend

    by Mark Miller ...
    Even before Claude Ranger disappeared in late 2000, his fate unknown, he had attained legendary status among Canada’s jazz musicians as an extraordinary drummer who repeatedly challenged the status quo on bandstands in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.   Willful, uncompromising and charismatic, cigarette invariably tucked into the left corner of his mouth, Ranger cut a compelling figure alongside ... Read more

    $5.60 USD

  • Since I Lost My Baby

    A Memoir of Temptations, Trouble & Truth

    by Selimah Nemoy ...
    When what you believe turns out to be a lie, how far will you go for the truth?"Just go home and pretend it never happened," is the advice given to 17-year-old Selimah as she departs a Los Angeles home for unwed mothers where she's been forced to give up her newborn baby for adoption. It's 1967, the Summer of Love, and outside the cloistered home, Selimah discovers an insurgence is taking place. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Circle of Fifths

    Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

    Series Book 1 - Visual Tools for Musicians
    Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice.Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate tritone intervals? Do you get confused when defining a chord? Technical music instructor and bestselling author Philip Jackson has spent the last two decades helping musicians master tricky concepts ... Read more

    $8.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lion Roars

    The Musical Life of Willie 'The Lion' McIntyre

    by Phil Sandford ...
    By day a mild-mannered accountant, by night a roaring jazz pianist and singer.A boogie and stride pianist, Willie ‘The Lion’ McIntyre was a leading figure in the traditional jazz boom in Melbourne after World War II. He sang in a Fats Waller style or shouted the blues, and was a key member of Tony Newstead’s Southside Gang and the Portsea Trio.Together with clarinettist George Tack, he developed a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE #1

    Volume "Y" (May, 2015)

    THE ULTIMATE FUNKLOPEDIK GROOVE DATABASE At last, here it ist! They said it couldn't be done.You can now get access to the FIRST even released eBook including all comprehensive, verified and certified Biographies & Discographies of BLACK Artists/Groups til the '50s to nowadays. This is the first publication of our long time project. This present edition, ... ... Read more

    $22.18 USD

  • I Walked With Giants

    The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath

    Composer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125 albums, Jimmy Heath has earned a place of honor in the history of jazz. Over his long career, Heath knew many jazz giants such as Charlie Parker and played with other innovators including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and especially Dizzy Gillespie. Heath also won their respect and friendship.In this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Still So Excited!

    My Life as a Pointer Sister

    Still So Excited!: My Life as a Pointer Sister is an engaging, funny, heartbreaking, and poignant look at Ruth Pointer's roller-coaster life in and out of the Pointer Sisters. When overnight success came to the Pointer Sisters in 1973, they all thought it was the answer to their long-held prayers. While it may have served as an introduction to the good life, it also was an introduction to the high ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop

    by Jeremy Yudkin ...
    Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal and musical challenges only to emerge once again as the artistic leader of his generation.A major ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • All Fourths Tuning for Jazz Guitar

    by Yasser Mattar ...
    All fourths tuning refers to tuning one's guitar such that the intervals between the stings ascend in fourths. Why should you tune to fourths?• Chord, arpeggio and scale shapes are uniform• It's ergonomic• One has control over jazzy voicings• One has control over intervals• It's easy to make quartal chordsThis book includes:• Over 100 fingering diagrams• 14 sheets of song transcriptions• Copious ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

    by Gabriel Solis ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    In early 2005, an engineer at the Library of Congress accidentally discovered, in an unmarked box, the recording of Thelonious Monk's and John Coltrane's performance at a 1957 benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Long considered one of the most important musical meetings in modern jazz, Monk's and Coltrane's work together during a scant few months in 1957 had, until this discovery, been thought to be ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

    The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

    by Philip Watson ...
    The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill'A beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Harlem Jazz Adventures

    A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969

    Translated by Fradley Hamilton Garner ...
    Series series Studies in Jazz
    Timme Rosenkrantz (1911–1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the “Jazz Baron” because of his noble lineage, he was the first European journalist to cover the jazz scene in Harlem. Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron’s Memoir, 1934 ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The Complete Robert Johnson

    by Woody Mann ...
    An exploration of the 29 songs that form the complete recorded works of this seminal blues artist. Transcriptions in standard notation and guitar tablature give new insight into Johnson's unique guitar and vocal styles. Includes a special section on the music and playing techniques covering standard chord forms and open tunings. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Deep in a Dream

    The Long Night of Chet Baker

    by James Gavin ...
    This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeard on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dig If You Will the Picture

    Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince

    by Ben Greenman ...
    Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street JournalA unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Loving Amy

    A Mother's Story

    “Amy was one of those rare people who made an impact . . . She was a bundle of emotions, at times adorable and at times unbearable. . . . Amy’s passing did not follow a clear line. It was jumbled, and her life was unfinished—not life’s natural order at all. She left no answers, only questions, and in the years since her death I’ve found myself trying to make sense of the frayed ends of her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Respect Yourself

    Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

    The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Blues with a Feeling

    The Little Walter Story

    Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top 10 hits on the R&B charts, and he was also the first Chicago blues musician to play at the Apollo. Ray Charles and B.B. King, great blues artists ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Otis Redding

    An Unfinished Life

    The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay,” “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” and “Respect,” a song ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Penguin Jazz Guide

    The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

    The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history ... Read more

    $26.99 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

    $13.99 USD

  • King of the Blues

    The Rise and Reign of B. B. King

    The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend“No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama“He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric ClaptonRiley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • Steady Rollin'

    by Bob Margolin ...
    Informed by my years as a professional Blues musician and writer for Blues Revue magazine, my eBook presents some of my best column, snapshots and the stories behind them, and (intentional) Blues fiction. It is updated with current introductions to each story or photo. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus