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Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture by Gerhard Kubik 9781496825681
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78A 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... -
'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters) by David Thomson 9780141020754
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema. This is veteran film writer David Thomson's... -
Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music: A Transdisciplinary Approach by Guro Gravem Johansen 9780367728403
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music is a critical, research-based anthology exploring improvisation in music pedagogy. The book broadens the understanding of the potentials and... -
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin 9780099590514
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41From 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,... -
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix 9780252037917
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Saxophone 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... -
Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen 9781421408385
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £21.21Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated... -
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Saxophone 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... -
The Cover Art of Blue Note Records: The Collection by Graham Marsh
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.33The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham's classic collection of the unparalleled record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note record label. Around... -
Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan McClary by Steven Baur
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44No music scholar has made as profound an impact on contemporary thought as Susan McClary, a central figure in what has been termed the 'new musicology'. In this volume seventeen distinguished... -
Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights Vanguard Jack Marchbanks 9780821426876
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Explore how jazz legends and literary icons united art and activism, shaping the civil rights movement and transforming American culture during the pivotal period between 1955 and 1965.Art and... -
Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights Vanguard Jack Marchbanks 9780821426869
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £73.60Explore how jazz legends and literary icons united art and activism, shaping the civil rights movement and transforming American culture during the pivotal period between 1955 and 1965.Art and... -
Steve McQueen: Interviews by Geoffrey Lokke 9781496858818
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics,... -
Lamborghini 60 Years James Mann 9780760376591
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.86Celebrate six decades of outrageous, unforgettable Lamborghini cars with this must-have volume featuring fascinating history and stunning photography. Sixty years ago, Ferruccio Lamborghini put the... -
Steve McQueen: Interviews by Geoffrey Lokke 9781496858825
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Steve McQueen: Interviews is the first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date. Included are McQueen's discussions with artists, critics,... -
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,... -
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational Memoir by Mike Zwerin 9780300108064
Booksplease Price: £57.36An engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the '80s and '90s In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow,... -
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The Vinyl List: 100 Albums You Need on Vinyl and Why by Vinyl Me, Please 9781788400039 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £3.38Putting the style in your stylus, The Vinyl List is more than your average book of music recommendations. Brought to you by the vinyl subscription club, Vinyl Me, Please - 'the best damn record... -
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art by Andy Hamilton 9780472032174
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.57The preeminent altoist associated with the ""cool"" school of jazz, Lee Konitz was one of the few saxophonists of his generation to forge a unique sound independent of the influence of Charlie Parker... -
My First Memory: Epiphanies, Watersheds and Origin Stories by Ben Holden 9781471167461
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music by Jennifer C. Lena 9780691163383
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of... -
Myself Among Others: A Life In Music by George Wein 9780306813528
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.51No one has had a better seat in the house than George Wein. The legendary impresario has known the most celebrated figures of music in general and jazz in particular- from Duke Ellington to Ella... -
The Great GOAT Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science by Paul Volponi 9781538153154
Booksplease Price: £26.61Who is the Greatest Of All Time-the GOAT? This is the question debated constantly between fans for any number of categories. Who is the greatest basketball player of all time? The greatest band?... -
The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science by Paul Volponi 9781538199022
Booksplease Price: £17.19Who is the Greatest Of All Time-the G.O.A.T.? This is the question debated constantly between fans for any number of categories. Who is the greatest basketball player of all time? The greatest band?... -
Keith Jarrett: The Man And His Music by Ian Carr
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Keith Jarrett is probably the most influential jazz pianist living today: his concerts have made him world famous. He was a child prodigy who had his first solo performance at the age of seven. In... -
Legends of the Slow Explosion: Eleven Modern Lives by Baron Wormser 9781946482105
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.97Multi-genre literary master Baron Wormser's new book is about people from the mid-twentieth century whose lives created ripple effects beyond their individuality. Including electrifying portraits of... -
A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues by Terrie Williams 9780446691208
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00She was president of one of the country's top publicity agencies, with a Who's Who in Entertainment client list that included Eddie Murphy, Miles Davis, and Janet Jackson. The bestselling author of... -
The Purloined Letter by Fani Papageorgiou 9781848615649
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.27"The Purloined Letter has a dolorous stately piercing almost martial music, like an Elizabethan court dance or Miles Davis in his electric period." -Edwin Frank "...as Papageorgiou's... -
The Story of Music Mick Manning 9781445163673
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A friendly and inspiring introduction to music history, telling the stories of the world's greatest musicians from Bach to Beyonce.The Story of Music begins with the early drums and flutes of our... -
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz by Leonard Feather 9780195320008
RRP: £49.49Booksplease Price: £44.32Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings... -
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson
Booksplease Price: £21.60The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon... -
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson 9780571361694
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon... -
Robert Creeley's Life and Work: A Sense of Increment by Reverend Dr John Wilson 9780472063741
Booksplease Price: £27.80Since the publication in 1952 or Le Fou, Robert Creeley has been the subject of continuing critical review. He has been called a traditionalist by some. Yet he was influenced by the poetry of William... -
The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax by John Szwed
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different... -
Bebop to Cool: Context, Ideology, and Musical Identity by Eddie S. Meadows 9780313300714
Booksplease Price: £81.03Bebop music is more than a jazz movement that seemed to have burst suddenly upon the jazz scene-it is an outgrowth of the sociocultural environment dating from the 1920s through the 1940s. In this... -
Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.45This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him... -
Celebrating The Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes by Ralph J. Gleason 9780306806452
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis... -
The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings On Rock Music Updated Edition by Nick Kent 9780306811821
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.00A smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you wouldn't)-Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid... -
Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll by Mikal Gilmore 9781447267942
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.22Night Beat is a look at the disruption of culture as viewed through the history of rock music, its activists, its politics, the lives lived and lives grieved for during an epoch of upheaval. The... -
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince Daphne A. Brooks 9781478029854
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £89.40Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign is the first critical anthology dedicated to exploring the legacies of two pop music icons: David Bowie and Prince. Daphne A. Brooks brings together an...