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Beneath The Underdog Charles Mingus 9781782118824
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Bass 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,... -
An American Cakewalk: Ten Syncopators of the Modern World by Zeese Papanikolas 9780804791991
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural... -
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper by Art Pepper
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92Art 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... -
The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer by Dottie Dodgion
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.14Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman... -
Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker by Bill Milkowski
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €20.93After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when... -
Who Does She Think She Is?: Martine: My Autobiography by Martine McCutcheon 9780099569183
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96Born into the poorest and least-promising background and with only a loving mother's support to help her, Martine has dared to follow her dreams of stardom and has packed more in her twenty-four... -
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art by Andy Hamilton 9780472032174
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €28.28The 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... -
Refiguring in Black by Tendayi Sithole 9781509557028
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €18.41Refiguring in Black is a meditation on black life, and a meditation on the questions and concerns with which black life is confronted. It takes the form of a critical engagement with the thought of... -
Backmasking by Harold Whit Williams 9781937875763
RRP: €8.39Booksplease Price: €7.88The poems of Backmasking uncover secret messages of rock and roll in relation to religion, mostly in a loose sonnet form reminiscent of David Wojahn's classic, Mystery Train. Set mainly in the Muscle... -
This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
Booksplease Price: €8.74In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop,... -
Free Jazz by Ekkehard Jost 9780306805561
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.02When originally published in 1974, Ekkehard Jost's Free Jazz was the first examination of the new music of such innovators as Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Jost studied... -
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer 9780857864024
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Lester 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... -
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14 by Evan Spring 9780810869202
Booksplease Price: €96.88The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation... -
Jazz Revolutionary: The Life & Music Of Eric Dolphy Jonathon Grasse 9781916829084
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €14.78Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to... -
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir by Jans B. Wager 9781477312278
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76Film 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 Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen 9780811222051
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €17.69Inspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean "Tom o'Bedlam" ("By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond the... -
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition by Fred Moten 9780816641000
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €21.61Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively... -
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman by Bob Kaufman 9780872867697
Booksplease Price: €19.522020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. ... this book... -
Jazz Child: A Portrait of Sheila Jordan by Ellen Johnson 9780810888364
Booksplease Price: €85.07When Sheila Jordan dropped a nickel in the juke box of a Detroit diner in the 1940s and heard "Now's The Time" by Charlie Parker, she was instantly hooked-and so began a seventy-year jazz journey. In... -
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure by Maria Golia
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €15.77Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African American composer and...