Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360952Author Ian MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 512g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999477649Author Phil WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Cymbal PressPublisher Cymbal PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966406559Author Christopher John ConnellyFormat PaperbackImprint Shipwrecked IndustriesPublisher Shipwrecked IndustriesWeight(grams) 508g

Written by one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics, the late Alfred Einstein, this classic study of Mozart's character and works brings to light many new facts about his relationship with his family, his susceptibility to ambitious...

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records-Prince's bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom ...

Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307353382Author Jonathan GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Bob Spitz takes his place... among the most able chroniclers of the many myths, poses and postures of the middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota and his dogged and at times ruthless pursuit of superstardom.-Boston Herald "The great strength of this...

Celebrating Anita O'Day s 100th birthday anniversary, this classic and engaging memoir is a must read for anyone wanting a real look behind the scenes at the 'golden age' of jazz. The New York Times calls it, a fascinating travelogue through the jazz...

This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495052927Author Nick RosaciPage Count 144Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451498878Author Jensen KarpFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593863176Author Thurston MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592402878Author Willie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 16mm

In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and...

Mohr's humor and personal perspective on the lives of Rubinstein, Horowitz, and other artists mix music lore with quiet faith.Book InformationISBN 9780801057106Author Franz MohrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Baker Books, a division of Baker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414518Author Tom StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist. Far from it: the centenary of his birth, April 22, 1916, is being...

Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, spirit, vision, honor, truth, and drums make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest drummers of all time, Aronoff is...

A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his...

Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a band in Raleigh, North Carolina. Whiskeytown led the wave of insurgent-country bands that came of age with No Depression magazine in the mid-1990s, and for...

A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture "A charming . . . passion animates [Winer's] Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical."-Brad Leithauser, New York...

Skip James (1902-1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt here paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, "Parker, in the brief span of...

ERingo: With a Little HelpE is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. EWith a Little HelpE traces the...

Grammy Award-nominated artist Kem shares his life in this revealing and remarkable memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem's journey to the stage is...

In 1986, jazz guitarist, banjoist, singer and composer Danny Barker (who died in 1994) published the first volume of his memoirs "A Life in Jazz," which was widely praised as an addition to the history of jazz. This is a further selection of Barker's...

Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip-hop more inspiring than their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063257450Author Melissa EtheridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654562Author Lindsay ReadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

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What forces helped shape the output of this high-living, often arrogant, but immensely talented composer? This fascinating collection includes Simonetta Puccini's essay full of intimate details about her family, as well as writings by experts on the...

After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair,...

An instant New York Times bestseller! The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. Just a few years after he...

'This "sincere speed-written, blood-spattered tribute" strings together the raciest anecdotes...and does it rather well' SUNDAY TIMES'Mick Wall has written in a rough and unsentimental style that suits his subject' THE TIMESLou Reed died in 2013. This is...

'This "sincere speed-written, blood-spattered tribute" strings together the raciest anecdotes...and does it rather well' SUNDAY TIMES'Mick Wall has written in a rough and unsentimental style that suits his subject' THE TIMESLou Reed died in 2013. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980056181Author Nick ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Guardian Express MediaPublisher Guardian Express MediaWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341217Author Allen BeaulieuFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

The first ever book about the outspoken American rocker, this is an updated version of Epic Ted Nugent, previously only published in North America that draws on interviews with the man himself. The Tedinator, Deadly Tedly, The Whackmaster or simply The...