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Listen to Jazz!: Exploring a Musical Genre Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith 9781440875519
Booksplease Price: $128.75Listen 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,... -
You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band by Bob Gluck 9780226142715
Booksplease Price: $54.05As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just left the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a... -
You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band Bob Gluck 9780226300047
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he brought a new group of musicians together into what... -
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $39.96This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a... -
The Sound of Sundays, an autobiography by Zucchero Fornaciari 9781910978146
Booksplease Price: $32.00Italian singer, songwriter, musician, performer and artist Zucchero's autobiography is now available in English for the first time. In The Sound of Sunday he tells his own revealing, touching,... -
Listening to Prestige: Chronicling Its Classic Jazz Recordings, 1949–1972 by Tad Richards 9798855804942
Booksplease Price: $197.44A complete chronicle of one of the greatest postwar jazz labels.Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records recorded the leading jazz artists of its day, many of whom were at or... -
Same Old Song: The Enduring Past in Popular Music by John Paul Meyers 9781496850867
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $134.65Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing... -
John Coltrane: His Life and Music by Lewis Porter 9780472086436
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $37.44This is a definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material. John Coltrane was a key figure in... -
Jazz and the Philosophy of Art Lee B. Brown 9781138241367
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz. It covers such diverse... -
The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies Nicholas Gebhardt 9781032241715
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents over forty articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of... -
The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts Rebecca Caines (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada) 9780415638722
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $116.09Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new... -
Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music Nick Nesbitt 9781138272118
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.26It is the contention of the editors and contributors of this volume that the work carried out by Gilles Deleuze, where rigorously applied, has the potential to cut through much of the intellectual... -
Roy DeCarava: Light Break Roy DeCarava 9781644230251
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $67.94Light Break presents the first survey since 1996 of photographer Roy DeCarava, an essential figure of American art and culture, whose "poetry of vision" re-forms urban life, labor, love, and jazz... -
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz by Robert Hodson
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.12Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised... -
My World by Luciano Pavarotti
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Every generation or so an opera singer attains the kind of public adulation and affection usually reserved for film stars or pop singers. Luciano Pavarotti reached this level of fame: he was the most... -
Junky by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'William Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of... -
In Concert: Performing Musical Persona by Philip Auslander 9780472054718
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $65.39The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can... -
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place Michael Dear 9780415589802
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.89In the past decade, there has been a convergence of transdisciplinary thought characterized by geography's engagement with the humanities, and the humanities' integration of place and the tools of... -
In Concert: Performing Musical Persona by Philip Auslander 9780472074716
Booksplease Price: $158.03The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can... -
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka 9780520265820
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $42.82For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such... -
Jazz: Best of the Apollo, Village Vanguard, and Riverside Sessions Steve Schapiro 9781788843423
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $85.26One of the leading social documentary photographers of the 1960s, Steve Schapiro's images stand among the most important of the 20th century, covering Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Jr., James... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
Booksplease Price: $46.81Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America Joel Dinerstein 9780226152653
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $62.75Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of... -
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums by Brian Morton
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.53Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian... -
All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison by Marc Shapiro
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle' As part of the biggest band in pop history, he took a back seat to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, but his talent shone through in the... -
Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation by Paul F. Berliner
Booksplease Price: $71.48This text reveals how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. It aims to illuminate the distinctive creative processes that comprise improvisation. Chronicling leading... -
Junky by William S. Burroughs 9780141189826
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81A shocking expose of the desperate subculture surrounding heroin addiction, William S. Burroughs' Junky is edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris in Penguin Modern Classics.Burroughs' first... -
Jazz: the Basics by Christopher Meeder
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Jazz: The Basics gives a brief introduction to a century of jazz, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style. The heart of the book traces... -
Jazz Legends Alphabet by Beck Feiner 9780645851519
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05From Coltrane to Davis, Fitzgerald to Armstrong, Jazz Legends Alphabet is the quintessential A to Z of the smoothest, coolest, hippest cats to have ever made jazz music. Written with rhythm and... -
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of... -
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story... -
Castles Made Of Sound: The Story Of Gil Evans by Larry Hicock 9780306809453
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $49.77Gil Evans was once described by Miles Davis as "the greatest musician in the world," yet he has remained one of the least known and most underrated innovators in jazz. Revered by generations of... -
What is Criminology About?: Philosophical Reflections by Don Crewe
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34Since its inception, criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-evident, this book pursues the... -
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas 9780807872437
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807872437Author Nadine CohodasFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint The University of North... -
Remembering Ronnie Barker by Richard Webber 9780099545569
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Ronnie Barker was one of our most respected and best-loved comedy actors and here, in this fascinating biography, Richard Webber delves deep in to the heart of Barker's life and career, peppering... -
A Basketball Story by 9781642011524
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26Let A Basketball Story Inspire Your ChildA Basketball Story follows Coach Miles Davis and his youth basketball team on their road to victory. But as the team inches closer to the championship game,... -
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture by Gerhard Kubik 9781496825681
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.94A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title.In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of... -
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni... -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of... -
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin 9780099590514
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96From 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,...