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  • Detroit 67

    The Year That Changed Soul

    Series series The Soul Trilogy
    First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others.Detroit 67 is “a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City” during the year that changed everything (Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Be My Baby

    A Memoir

    “Do I have to tell you that Ronnie’s got one of the greatest female rock-and-roll voices of all time? She stands alone.”—Keith RichardsBe My Baby is the behind-the-scenes story—newly updated, and with an especially timely message—of how the original bad girl of rock and roll, Ronnie Spector, survived marriage to a monster and carved out a space for herself amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The History of Bones

    A Memoir

    by John Lurie ...
    **The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie“A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York Times**In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Making of Kind of Blue

    Miles Davis and His Masterpiece

    by Eric Nisenson ...
    From the moment it was recorded more than 40 years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic. To this day it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all musical genres. The album represented a true watershed moment in jazz history, and helped to usher in the first great jazz revolution since bebop.The Making of Kind of Blue is an exhaustively ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lost Highway

    Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians

    This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jazz Anecdotes:Second Time Around

    Second Time Around

    by Bill Crow ...
    When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Jazz Ear

    Conversations over Music

    by Ben Ratliff ...
    An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz criticJazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue." Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Black Music

    by LeRoi Jones ...
    Series series Akashi Classics: Renegade Reprint Series
    The essential collection of jazz writing by the celebrated poet and author of Blues People—reissued with a new introduction by the author.In the 1960s, LeRoi Jones—who would later be known as Amiri Baraka—was a pioneering jazz critic, articulating in real time the incredible transformations of the form taking place in the clubs and coffee houses of New York City. In Black Music, he sheds light on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jazzology

    The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians

    (Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student, and as a workbook for the classroom, complete with ample exercises and conceptual discussion. Includes ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • George Goodman's Harmonica Cheat Sheet

    George Goodman's Harmonica Cheat Sheet is a combination of three great tools to kick-start your harmonica playing.Included are- The Blues Harp Chart: provides chords, cross harp key, 12 Bar Blues Progression, and Blues Scale harmonica tabs covering all 12 keys.- Major Key Degrees of Scale: unveils blow and draw holes for all diatonic chord tones. These are the notes that make up the majority of ... Read more

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  • Bessie

    The definitive biography of musical legend Bessie Smith: “A landmark in the writing of jazz history . . . First-rate” (The Washington Post).Known as the “Empress of the Blues,” Bessie Smith was a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African American performer of the Roaring Twenties. This revised and expanded biography debunks many of the myths that have circulated since ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Wild Years

    The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

    by Jay S. Jacobs ...
    Newly updated to include his critically acclaimed post-millennial work, this look at Tom Waits - both the reality and the myriad myths - reveals the man behind the curtain. A tale of how a self-taught, drunken hipster in roach-killers and a dirty beret has influenced a generation of musicians with his sound, warmth, and willingness to take chances, this biography shows how he has moved between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Baroness

    The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild

    Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her daily walks, dressed in white, with her two sisters and governess around the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bass Guitar

    10 Easy Blues Licks

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    10 easy blues licks with tabs and audio. In the key of A, B, E and G. ... Read more

    Free

  • Feel Like Going Home

    Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll

    This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf; excursions into the blues-based Memphis rock 'n' roll of Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and the Sun record label; and a brilliant depiction of the bustling Chicago blues scene and the legendary Chess record label in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Death of Rhythm and Blues

    by Nelson George ...
    From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this passionate and provocative book tells the complete story of black music in the last fifty years, and in doing so outlines the perilous position of black culture within white American society. In a fast-paced narrative, Nelson George’s book chronicles the rise and fall of “race music” and its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reaching Beyond

    Improvisations on Jazz, Buddhism, and a Joyful Life

    In Reaching Beyond, Buddhist thinker and activist Daisaku Ikeda explores the origins, development,and international influence of jazz with legendary artists Herbie Hancockand Wayne Shorter.Reflecting on their lives and careers, Mr. Hancock and Mr. Shorter sharethe lessons they have learned from their musical mentors, including MilesDavis and Art Blakey, and how the Buddhist philosophy they've ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When I Left Home

    My Story

    by Buddy Guy ...
    According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties-the very moment ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg

    The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations

    by Mark Ribowsky ...
    The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the TemptationsThe Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized their onstage triumphs to the personal failings and psycho-dramas that played out behind the scenes, Ain't ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do Not Sell At Any Price

    The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records

    “A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records” (Los Angeles Times), Do Not Sell at Any Price is a fascinating, complex story of preservation, loss, obsession, and art.Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Funk

    The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One

    Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music.Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Love Supreme

    The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

    by 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, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind

    Madness and Black Radical Creativity

    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    “Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD