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  • Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From

    Lyrics and History

    Edited by Robert Springer ...
    Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues and establish the significance of African American popular song as a neglected form of oral history. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bruno Mars

    by Emily Herbert ...
    Bruno Mars conquered the music industry with far-reaching flair, selling over 115 million records worldwide as a singer, producer and as a songwriter. Bruno Mars, the book, documents his childhood in Honolulu and how he found fame from the age of four, before spreading his wings and scaling the seemingly unassailable stronghold of the music industry. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Poetry of the Blues

    Series series Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs
    "A signal event in the history of the music." — Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929–2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world music, Charters conducted research that brought obscure musicians of the American South and Appalachia into the mainstream. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Electric Blues Guitar Method

    by William Bay ...
    This is an innovative and comprehensive book which teaches the essentials of playing contemporary blues guitar. Includes basic techniques such as note-bending, the hammer-ons, the pull-offs, in addition to the blues shuffle rhythm. The first part of the book presents lead guitar solos demonstrating and teaching basic techniques. In notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • BackUp Trax: Basic Blues for Guitar

    by Dix Bruce ...
    Learn to play 14 classic blues the best way--by doing! This book and online audio provides your backup band as you explore Country and Urban, Acoustic and Electric, Delta, Texas, Chicago, Slide Guitar, Alternate Tuning, Traditional, and Modern styles in many different major and minor keys and in a variety of tempos. Melodies are first presented on the recording at a slow speed with just guitar, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • GI Jive

    An Army Bandsman in World War II

    Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific. He served in the huge invasion force in the Battle of Manila, the deadliest single battle of the Pacific War.As an army musician attached to the 37th Infantry Division, Mathias saw the war from the bottom of the heap, where young privates lived ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blues Guitar Styles

    Contains Lead Guitar, Bass, Rhythm Guitar, & Drum Parts

    by William Bay ...
    A collection of guitar blues compositions in styles ranging from "down-home" blues to rock/blues to jazz/blues. All solos are in notation and tablature. An additional feature of this book is the inclusion of rhythm guitar, drum, and bass parts for each piece. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

    Series series Music in American Life
    Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fastlines Jazz Guitar Method Primer

    Fastlines Guitar Methods, #1

    by Ged Brockie ...
    Series Book 1 - Fastlines Guitar Methods
    Learn to solo for jazz guitar with Fastlines, the combined book and audio tutor.For guitarist looking to learn jazz guitar, the Fastlines Jazz Guitar Method Primer edition gives you the musical ideas to create improvisations that sound authentic.20 different licks with descriptions of how the lines were created.10 written projects which explain how to edit and change your licks in various ways.1 ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Stains: The Lyrics Of Jaysen True Blood 2000-2011, Book 4

    Bloodstains: 2000-2011

    Series Book 4 - Bloodstains: 2000-2011
    During two failed marriages, two divorces, and the years in between, Jaysen True Blood wrote some amazing lyrics. Some described the pain of going through mental illness with a loved one, others expressed his anger and frustration. Still others were socially active or were written in hopes that he would create a band and go on the road. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Into Blues Guitar

    by Steve Grieve ...
    Series series Getting Into
    Intended for beginning to intermediate level players, this blues guitar tutorial offers progressive lessons addressing chords, comping, scales, phrasing, and solo improvising. The book’s numerous musical examples and tunes are written in both standard notation and guitar tablature as well as in chord grids when justified. Helpful practice tips and suggestions for further reading and listening are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930–1942

    Series series American Made Music Series
    Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Jazz Music–Certificate of Merit (2013)The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those involved with the coal industry was there for jazz tours would seem equally improbable. Big Band ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • God Uses Ordinary People

    The Autobiography / Biography of Danniebelle Hall

    As the voice at the forefront of Andraé Crouch & The Disciples classics "Take Me Back," "Tell Them," and "Soon and Very Soon," Danniebelle Hall's distinctive voice made an immediate impression on listeners around the world. She emerged from the group as an artist in her own right, introducing compositions such as "Ordinary People," "Love Made Me Do It," and "What Kind of Love Is This," songs ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Freedom Music

    Wales, Emancipation and Jazz 1850-1950

    by Jen Wilson ...
    This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots extending back to slave songs and abolition campaign songs, and Swansea’s long-forgotten connection with Cincinnati, Ohio. The main themes of the book are to illustrate and emphasise the strong links between emerging African American music in the USA and the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Play Ukulele - 12 Ladies Blues Songs

    Tabs & Online Sounds

    Songbook with 12 arrangements of Ladies Blues Songs for the Ukulele.Twelve blues songs, composed and/or performed by four of the most legendary blues ladies: Billie Holiday, Berta "Chippie" Hill, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.All songs are notated with tabs for fingerpicking with the Ukulele, the arrangements are easy to moderately difficult - for slightly advanced and advanced fans of the Ukulele.< ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Obama Music

    by Bonnie Greer ...
    'Potentially... one of the best; or at least one of the most intriguing Obama books to be published'. Robaroundbooks.comA mixture of anecdotes about the author's own growing up in one of America's most formidable Black communities, mixed in with observations on the origins and progress of the music of the South Side: gospel, blues, soul and jazz, and Barack and Michelle Obama's relation to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • It Just Occurred to Me?

    The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with – from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. He also recalls his early life as the son of a famous housemaster at Eton, where he was educated.During the war, he served in the Grenadier Guards and, on demobilisation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Blues Traveling

    The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Fourth Edition

    This acclaimed travel guide, hailed as the bible of blues travelers throughout the world, will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the intersection where Robert Johnson might have made his deal with the devil and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin’ Wolf to moan “Smokestack Lightnin’.” Blues Traveling was the first and is the indisputably essential guidebook to Mississippi's musical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Musical Echoes

    South African Women Thinking in Jazz

    Series series Refiguring American music
    Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Summary of Elijah Wald's Escaping the Delta

    Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The history of blues music is full of romantic foolishness. When did blues emerge. Popular entertainers were reborn as primitive voices from the dark and demonic Delta, and a music notable for its professionalism was recast as the heart-cry of a suffering people. #2 The term blues has been used for a lot of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Paddy Cole

    King of the Swingers

    by Paddy Cole ...
    The colourful story of the 80-year-old saxophone player and singer affectionately know as The King of The Swingers. Paddy Cole has taken his style of Jazz, Dixieland and Swing band music all over the world – and back home too. Paddy Cole is the grand old man of Irish Showbiz who still is young at heart and has built a new radio career with his show on Dublin's Sunshine Radio every Sunday. His ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sings At Festivals: Music Trivia For Feasts

    by Melody Rose ...
    Explore the music and songs of artists like Van Halen, Boy George, Andy Williams and Michael Bolton. Seventies Soul Artists: Delfonics, O'Jays, Jerry Butler, Teddy Pendergrass, Stylistics, Spinners and their Philadelphia label are discussed. Leon Russell, Bonnie and Delaney and influences on guitar greats like Clapton, Mason, Harrison and Allman are covered. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stan Levey

    Jazz Heavyweight

    Stan Levey is widely considered to be one of the most influential drummers in the history of modern jazz. During his extraordinary career, the self-taught Levey played alongside a who’s who of twentieth century jazz artists: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, Thelonius Monk, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ultimate Guitar Chords

    Understanding harmony to be an advanced guitarist

    There are always several different ways to play chords even for simple chord progressions. It is important to be able to choose chord voicing that fits the context and the style of music. This is not a book that just shows you a bunch of chord shapes. This book will help you fully understand the basics of guitar chords and learn how to apply them to an advanced chord playing with your own choice ... Read more

    $25.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus