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Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz by Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840721
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz by Gretchen L. Carlson 9781496840844
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur... -
Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young by Dave Gelly 9781845536046
Booksplease Price: £17.19Lester Young (1909-1959) was one of the great jazz masters, whose tenor saxophone playing brought new levels of expressiveness and subtlety to the jazz language. Many of his recordings - with Billie... -
Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music by Gerry Mulligan
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.65Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan's life and career, told in his own words. This personal narrative reveals great insight into the musician's complex... -
Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea by Keith Waters 9780190604578
Booksplease Price: £30.48Innovations in postbop jazz compositions of the 1960s occurred in several dimensions, including harmony, form, and melody. Postbop jazz composers such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick... -
How To Build Relationships in the Music Industry: A Guide for Musicians by Arlette Hovinga 9781538184073
Booksplease Price: £75.81Musicians: are you frustrated with promoters and other key, industry people leaving your emails unanswered? Do you wish to get more bookings and promote your projects but don't know how to network... -
Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener's Companion by Monika Herzig
Booksplease Price: £37.82With twenty-three Grammy wins, Chick Corea is a legendary jazz figure and one of the most prolific and influential contemporary pianists of our time. He has produced hundreds of releases in multiple... -
Lucifer by Moonlight: A Modern Fable by Patrice Chaplin 9781905570911
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62According to ancient scripture, Lucifer was cast out of heaven as a result of his disobedience, gaining freedom for mankind in the process. In Spain, local legends tell that the fallen archangel... -
Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface by W. T. Lhamon 9780674008731
Booksplease Price: £32.28W. T. Lhamon 's Deliberate Speed is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic... -
Granny Takes a Trip: High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock 'n' Roll Boutique by Paul Gorman 9781399623612
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.80Lavishly illustrated with never-before-seen photographs of the shop, its key players and - of course - the clothes.Granny Takes A Trip was more than just a shop and a fashion brand; it was the... -
A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice by Dmitri Tymoczko
Booksplease Price: £66.53Most listeners prefer tonal music to atonal music, but what exactly is the difference between them? In this groundbreaking work, author Dmitri Tymoczko identifies five basic musical features that... -
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all... -
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Ted Gioia 9780199937394
RRP: £47.49Booksplease Price: £38.39Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this comprehensive and unique survey, here are... -
William Claxton. Jazzlife by Joachim E. Berendt 9783836542937
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.02In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted musicologist Joachim E. Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz. Through music halls and marching bands, side streets and subways,... -
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir by Jans B. Wager 9781477312278
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the... -
The Political Bible in Early Modern England by Kevin Killeen 9781107518421
Booksplease Price: £32.12This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a... -
Thriving on a Riff: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film by Graham Lock 9780195337099
Booksplease Price: £32.25From the Harlem Renaissance to the present, African American writers have drawn on the rich heritage of jazz and blues, transforming musical forms into the written word. In this companion volume to... -
The Roman Mystery Scrolls: The Two-faced God: Book 4 by Caroline Lawrence
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30Floridius the Soothsayer has been asked to read the omens for a wealthy man whose villa appears to be haunted. The pay is good but it means studying a sheep's liver and poor Floridius faints at the... -
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century Charles Shaar Murray 9780857862037
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'You the funkiest man alive.' Miles Davis' accolade was the perfect expression of John Lee Hooker's apotheosis as blues superstar: recording with the likes of Van Morrison, Keith Richards and Carlos... -
The Political Bible in Early Modern England by Kevin Killeen 9781107107977
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a... -
I Was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher's Journey through Gospel Music, Disco Stardom, and a Ministry in Christ by Carl Bean 9781416592839
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.52In "I Was Born This Way, "Carl Bean, former Motown recording artist, noted AIDS activist, and founder of the Unity Fellowship of Christ Church in Los Angeles, shares his extraordinary... -
The Last Road Race by Richard Williams
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The story of the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix - the last race of the heroic age of motor racingThere has been much talk of how Grand Prix motor racing has become rather dull with big name, big brand... -
Brooks Brothers: 200 years of American style by Kate Betts
Booksplease Price: £41.52Since 1818, Brooks Brothers, America s oldest clothing brand, has grown into a global sartorial institution that has influenced American style through its iconic fashions, which conjure intimate... -
Season of the Second Thought by Lynn Powell 9780299315344
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert WrigleySeason of the Second Thought begins in a deep blue mood, longing to find words for what feels beyond saying. Lynn Powell's poems... -
Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers by W. Royal Stokes 9780195159271
Booksplease Price: £41.57A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four... -
Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by Helen M. Rozwadowski 9780674027565
Booksplease Price: £29.25By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed-of how... -
Virtuoso Teams: The extraordinary stories of extraordinary teams by Andy Boynton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.57"A fascinating study of creative teamwork. The final chapter on how to "turbo-charge" less-than-exceptional teams is worth the cover price of the book." Director "What a pleasure to read... the... -
Bruce Springsteen 1973-1986: From Born To Run to Born In The USA by David Gahr 9780847862344
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.07David Gahr (1922 2008) was tapped by Columbia Records designer John Berg to shoot cover art for Bruce Springsteen s second album, The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Gahr s earliest... -
Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born To Run, to Born In The USA by David Gahr
RRP: £12.98Booksplease Price: £11.31David Gahr (1922 2008) was tapped by Columbia Records designer John Berg to shoot cover art for Bruce Springsteen s second album, The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Gahr s earliest... -
Roots Alex Haley 9781784873387
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Discover Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature.Tracing his ancestry through six... -
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed 9781250338105
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner "The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of... -
The Evolution of Imagination by Stephen T. Asma
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.73Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing... -
Hymn Lolita Chakrabarti 9781350243057
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself (Miles Davis) Two men meet at a funeral. Gil knew the deceased. Benny did not. Before long their families are close. Soon they'll be singing... -
The Heat's On Chester Himes 9780241521106
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track... -
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy 9780306902802
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)**?**Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)**The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny... -
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds... -
Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz Benjamin Cawthra 9780226098753
Booksplease Price: £39.17Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These... -
The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased... -
The Stone Cradle: One Woman's Search for the Truth Beyond Everyday Reality Patrice Chaplin 9781905570836
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46In this gripping true-life memoir, Patrice Chaplin returns to the ancient city of secrets, Girona - its magnetism and enchantment never to be forgotten. It was in Girona that she first encountered... -
Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge Kevin Killeen 9781138259508
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early...