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The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation by Keith Hatschek 9781496837776
Booksplease Price: £99.43Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled... -
Influence and Assimilation in Louis Armstrong's Cornet and Trumpet Work (1923-1928) by Edward Brooks, Jr. 9780773408715
Booksplease Price: £61.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408715Author Edward Brooks, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 236Imprin -
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye 9780063444867
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063444867Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion by Jeff Sultanof 9781442242425
Booksplease Price: £42.36The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical... -
Forward Groove: Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon by Chris Searle 9780955090875
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955090875Author Chris SearleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint < -
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography by Aaron Lefkovitz 9781498567534
Booksplease Price: £37.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498567534Author Aaron LefkovitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint -
Texas Jazz Singer, Volume 25: Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond by Kevin Mooney
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £11.60At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that... -
Love Songs: Listening to Couples Perrine Moran 9781800132672
Booksplease Price: £20.45The dilemma of how to be emotionally dependent on another without losing oneself underlies many issues that couples bring to therapy and is the stuff of many love songs. Its management results in... -
Beneath The Underdog Charles Mingus 9781782118824
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished,... -
Louis Armstrong, Blues Music, and the Artistic, Political, and Philosophical Debate During the Harlem Renaissance by Dr Michael Decuir 9798890313966
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890313966Author Dr Michael DecuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint -
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.43In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Covering everything from the music's structure and history... -
Louis Armstrong, Blues Music, and the Artistic, Political, and Philosophical Debate During the Harlem Renaissance by Dr Michael Decuir 9798890313973
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890313973Author Dr Michael DecuirFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint < -
What Were The Roaring Twenties? by Michele Mortlock 9781524786380
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.03Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that instantly conjure up a unique era--the Roaring Twenties.It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're... -
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674055438
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy," one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song's title refers to a literary device-the repetition of a word or phrase... -
A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music by Jabari Asim
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.57Get ready to swing with A Child's Introduction to Jazz, an interactive journey into one of the richest and most soulful music genres in the world. Listen while you learn with QR codes that will... -
The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the bestselling author of The Axeman's Jazz, Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is a gripping tale of crime and jazz music, and the third entry in his City Blues Quartet. A gangster is on his... -
Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall by Michael Jarrett 9781469664170
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66In histories of music, producers tend to fall by the wayside--generally unknown and seldom acknowledged. But without them and their contributions to the art form, we'd have little on record of some... -
Scoring Race - Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa by Pim Higginson
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a "black music" - an exoticization which had wide-reaching effects on the... -
Live Like Louis!: Inspiring Stories From the Life of Louis Armstrong to Help You Lead a More Wonderful Life by Phil Lynch 9780615679082
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615679082Author Phil LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint -
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots by Richard Lee Kennedy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In a piano factory tucked away in Richmond, Indiana, Gennett Records produced thousands of records featuring obscure musicians from hotel orchestras and backwoods fiddlers to the future icons of... -
In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. 9780807178508
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its... -
Childhoods of Famous People by Tomas Tůma
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02We have all heard of famous people like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Cleopatra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. But what do we know about their childhoods? Play a game and guess... -
Celestial Mechanics by Anthony Walton 9781567928716
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.64A journey through heaven and earth for the questing mind. Navigating from the clockwork music of the spheres to the "melismatic celebration of disaster" that is the blues, these are poems that map... -
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper by Art Pepper
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his wife Laurie, is an explosive work chronicling his... -
Music Genres: Jazz Trudy Becker 9798889982579
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62This engaging book describes jazz music's key characteristics, history, and place in popular music today. It also feature an "Artist Spotlight" special feature, informative sidebars, a table of... -
This is Bop: Jon Hendricks and the Art of Vocal Jazz by Peter Jones 9781781798744
Booksplease Price: £26.61If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contributions to jazz as a whole were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and... -
Music Genres: Jazz Trudy Becker 9798889982012
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £21.85This engaging book describes jazz music's key characteristics, history, and place in popular music today. It also feature an "Artist Spotlight" special feature, informative sidebars, a table of... -
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin 9781529065626
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel... -
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry 9780241819302
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.00A 'musical and moving' (Washington Post) meditation on the colour blue and its role in Black history and cultureThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with... -
Beyond Psychoppression: A Feminist Alternative Therapy by Betty McLellan 9781875559336
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.74A guide to therapy, Beyond Psychoppression explores the intersection between the personal and the political. Betty McLellan surveys the development of psychotherapy and exposes the oppressive... -
Cuttin' Up: How Early Jazz Got America's Ear by Court Carney
Booksplease Price: £30.90The emergence of jazz out of New Orleans is part of the American story, but the creation of this music was more than a regional phenomenon: it also crossed geographical, cultural, and technological... -
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer 9780857864024
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight... -
Illinois: CROSSROADS OF A CONTINENT by Lois A. Carrier 9780252068089
Booksplease Price: £20.12With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role... -
Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith 9781440875519
Booksplease Price: £61.31Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre explores jazz as both an American musical genre and a global creative exchange, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicians, composers, bands, groups, albums,... -
Oh, Didn't He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins as Told to Mary Collins by Lee Collins 9780252060816
Booksplease Price: £30.43The story of the legendary trumpeter, in his own words Jazz trumpeter Lee Collins made "a powerful noise" that he brought to his own music as well as collaborators like King Oliver, Jelly Roll... -
The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Inspired by a true story, set against the heady backdrop of jazz-filled, mob-ruled New Orleans, The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin is a gripping thriller announcing a major talent in historical crime... -
Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians by Floyd Levin 9780520234635
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.14Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz... -
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The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin 9781447258889 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.47Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year. Shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award As recommended on the Radio 2 Arts Show... -
Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams Steven C. Bowie 9781496859440
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra,... -
Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams Steven C. Bowie 9781496859433
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra,...