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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
RRP: $23.38$13.86The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black... -
All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 by Philip Larkin 9780571134762
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 gathers Philip Larkin's elegant, witty and penetrating reviews and responses to an enormous range of jazz and other records.About the... -
Unsung Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth Of Rock In The Wild Years Before Elvis by Nick Tosches 9780306808913
RRP: $31.18$30.28Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, the Dominoes, the Midnighters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins,... -
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Ted Gioia
RRP: $72.13$63.86An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz... -
Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation by Paul F. Berliner
RRP: $64.35$56.45This text reveals how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. It aims to illuminate the distinctive creative processes that comprise improvisation. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the... -
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert 'Mack' McCormick
RRP: $56.55$33.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347343Author Robert 'Mack' McCormickFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books -
Blues Harmonica For Dummies Winslow Yerxa 9781119694519
RRP: $44.83$30.36Breathe the blues into your harmonica! Blues harmonica is the most popular and influential style of harmonica playing, and it forms the basis for playing harmonica in other styles such as rock and country. Blues Harmonica for Dummies gives you a wealth... -
Free Jazz by Ekkehard Jost 9780306805561
$35.28When originally published in 1974, Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz was the first examination of the new music of such innovators as Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jost studied the music (not the lives) of a selection of... -
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire by Joe Nick Patoski
$29.89Hailed as the greatest guitarist since Hendrix, virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan forged a distinctive style out of blues, rock and roll and R&B roots. A genuine guitar hero who crafted his attack in countless pass-the-hat jams in Austin bars and ended his... -
Goodnight Boogie: A Tale of Guns, Wolves & The Blues of Hound Dog Taylor by Matt Rogers
RRP: $35.00$26.40Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. A founding father of lo-fi blues rock-that gritty, stripped-down sound played on cheap guitars with no bass-Taylor and his band The HouseRockers played loud, wild gut-bucket boogie that was raw and... -
Volume 42: Blues In All Keys (with Free Audio CD): 42 by Jamey Aebersold 9781562242008
RRP: $29.23$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562242008Author Jamey AebersoldPage Count 60Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $33.13$23.95FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs... -
101 Riffs and Solos for 4-String Cigar Box Guitar: Essential Lessons for 4-String Slide Cigar Box Guitar by Brent C Robitaille 9781777010249
RRP: $28.74$22.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777010249Author Brent C RobitailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Kalymi MusicPublisher Kalymi MusicWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm... -
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf by James Segrest 9781560256830
$33.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256830Author James SegrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm)... -
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin 9780099590514
RRP: $29.23$21.35From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a... -
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story by Tony Scherman
$27.83There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palmer co-created hundreds of hits and transformed the lope... -
Queer Blues by Darryl W Bullock
RRP: $39.00$28.65From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s... -
The Country Blues by Samuel Charters 9780306800146
RRP: $31.18$25.99From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music- recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon... -
Music Therapy: An art beyond words by Leslie Bunt
RRP: $77.98$68.37Music therapy is recognised as being applicable to a wide range of healthcare and social contexts. Since the first edition of Music Therapy: An art beyond words, it has extended into areas of general medicine, mainstream education and community practice... -
Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians Lawrence Cohn 9780789206077
RRP: $56.53$39.78It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of... -
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey Angela Y. Davis 9780679771265
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771265Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420g -
Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues by Alan Govenar 9781641604284
RRP: $33.05$25.952011 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for Best History By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant biography illuminates the many... -
Teach Yourself to Play Blues Guitar: A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners by Dave Rubin
RRP: $17.53$15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495030055Author Dave RubinPage Count 48Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Chicago Blues by Mike Rowe
RRP: $25.33$18.92Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues,more... -
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January 4, 1969 by Marshall Chess
RRP: $72.13$46.76A book showcasing the legendary Fleetwood Mac blues session at Chicago's Chess Studios in January 1969 This book focuses on a crucial moment in the history of one of the most popular bands in music history and its beginnings as a blues band in the late... -
Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads by Alan Harper
RRP: $31.18$27.77In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. "I've come here to listen to the blues," he told an American customs agent at the airport, and listen he did, to the music in its many styles, and... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: $23.40$16.46The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie. Here are... -
Rock, Jazz and Pop Arranging: All the Facts and All the Know-how by Daryl Runswick 9780571511082
RRP: $48.75$39.59A practical comprehensive guide to rock, jazz and pop arranged by one of Britain's most gifted and versatile musicians. Written in lively, accessible and entertaining style, Rock, Jazz and Pop Arranging contains everything the professional arranger or... -
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich 9781451667066
RRP: $33.15$21.41Before 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. While vinyl has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, rare and noteworthy 78rpm records... -
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy
RRP: $23.38$13.63According 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... -
Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins 9780195132410
RRP: $46.78$35.39Poised to become a jazz classic, Gary Giddins' Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no fewer than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank... -
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Gunther Schuller 9780195071405
RRP: $52.63$40.95Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social... -
Christmas with Elvis: The Official Guide to the Holidays from the King of Rock 'n' Roll by Running Press
RRP: $29.23$22.74For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel songs around the piano and give out extravagant gifts. In this spirit, Christmas with Elvis is designed... -
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by Edward A. Berlin 9780199740321
$90.99When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded not only as the most thorough investigation of Scott Joplin's life and music, but also as a gripping read, almost a detective story. This new and expanded... -
In Session with Chuck Berry by Chuck Berry
RRP: $37.03$30.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859097021Author Chuck BerryPage Count 68Imprint International Music PublicationsPublisher Faber Music LtdWeight(grams) 264g -
I Put A Spell On You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins by Steve Bergsman 9781627310758
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310758Author Steve BergsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise
RRP: $25.33$16.22'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President Barack Obama'One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish... -
Jazz Guitar Harmony (With 2 Free Audio CDs): The Melodic Approach by Zvonimir Tot 9781562243050
RRP: $38.98$35.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781562243050Author Zvonimir TotPage Count 88Imprint Jamey Aebersold JazzPublisher Jamey Aebersold Jazz -
Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story by Tony Glover 9780415937115
RRP: $77.98$68.37Whenever 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... -
First Time We Met the Blues: A Journey of Discovery with Jimmy Page, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards by David Williams 9780954706814
RRP: $25.33$15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954706814Author David WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 234g