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Bud Powell Omnibook by Bud Powell
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £31.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540054692Author Bud PowellPage Count 272Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard... -
Dance Of The Infidels: A Portrait Of Bud Powell by Francis Paudras 9780306808166
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924-1966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock... -
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey 9780520243910
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship,... -
Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World: An Illustrated Tribute, 1949-1965 by ,Leo,T. Sullivan 9780764355868
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.22Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949 to 1965, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. This illustrated book offers a history of this... -
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,... -
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,... -
Godfather of the Music Business: Morris Levy by Richard Carlin 9781496814807
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen,... -
Godfather of the Music Business: Morris Levy by Richard Carlin 9781496805706
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.25This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen,... -
Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century by Vaughn A. Booker
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and... -
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... -
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... -
Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century by Vaughn A. Booker 9781479892327
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £67.54Winner of the 2022 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, award by by the Council of Graduate Schools Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and... -
Thriving in the New Economy: Lessons from Today's Top Business Minds Lori Ann LaRocco 9780470557310
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.57Survive and thrive in today's economy These are make-or-break times for business leaders. In today's defining moment, the "New Economy," CEOs and other leaders in a wide variety of industries must... -
Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker by Brian Priestley 9781845533298
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99In his short life, Parker was one of the most influential musicians in jazz, and together with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, he was the main architect of the modern jazz revolution... -
Open Sky: Sonny Rollins And His World Of Improvisation by Eric Nisenson 9780306809880
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.60Sonny Rollins is one of jazz's great innovators, arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist, along with John Coltrane, in the history of modern jazz. He began his musical career at the age of... -
Giant Steps: Bebop And The Creators Of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 Kenny Mathieson 9780862418595
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Giant Steps examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell and... -
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,... -
Kd by Dave Oliphant
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £14.24Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark,... -
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... -
Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models Brian Levy 9780197643549
Booksplease Price: £26.29In Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of... -
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown 9780252043239
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.10Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever... -
Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models Brian Levy 9780197643532
Booksplease Price: £106.01In Chasin' the Sound: Learning Jazz Improvisation through Historical Models, authors Brian Levy and Keith Waters use solos by famous jazz musicians to outline a melodic and rhythmic vocabulary of... -
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever... -
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... -
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz by Terry Gibbs 9780810845862
Booksplease Price: £61.35Terry Gibbs, legendary jazz vibraphonist and bandleader, was 12 years old when he kicked off his career as a professional musician, winning first place in an amateur performance. Born and raised in... -
Bassically Speaking: An Oral History of George Duvivier by Edward Berger 9780810826915
Booksplease Price: £112.43"Both as a person and as a musician, he was number one in my book." -Benny Carter Bassist George Duvivier (1920-1985) was one of the most universally respected musicians in jazz. His impeccable... -
I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh by Alyn Shipton
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34This first biography of Jimmy McHugh captures a lively and significant contributor to American songwriting. Creator of favorite tunes such as "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "On the Sunny Side of the... -
On Jazz: A Personal Journey by Alyn Shipton
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.03Few musical genres inspire the passionate devotion of jazz. Its mystique goes far beyond the melodies and rhythms, with its key players and singers discussed by aficionados with a respect that... -
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Various 9781474621496
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz... -
Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie by Alyn Shipton 9780195144109
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.51Declared a "national treasure" by the White House in 1990, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was a not only a great musician but also a major innovator in the jazz world. While his first and foremost...