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Vibrations: A Memoir by David Amram
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44David Amram has played and rambled and galloped and staggered through a remarkably broad sweep of American life, experience, and creative struggle. The Boston Globe has described him as "the... -
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac David Amram 9781594515446
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14David Amram has been described as "the Renaissance man of American Music." His musical career has spanned participating with Jack Kerouac in the original jazz-poetry reading in 1957 in Greenwich... -
Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat David Amram 9781594514241
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69David Amram-composer, jazz artist, conductor, and world music pioneer-has been described by the Boston Globe as "the Renaissance man of American music." From early collaborations with Kerouac and... -
Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat by David Amram 9781594514258
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.58David Amram-composer, jazz artist, conductor, and world music pioneer-has been described by the Boston Globe as "the Renaissance man of American music." From early collaborations with Kerouac and... -
The Many Worlds of David Amram: Renaissance Man of American Music by Dean Birkenkamp 9781032290300
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44In a career spanning 70 years, composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works, chamber music, and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and... -
The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight by Peter C. Zimmerman 9781496837431
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight features twenty-one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience, and several as many as seventy-five. In... -
Maverick Maestro by Maurice Peress
Booksplease Price: £46.49Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York's Washington Heights, became... -
Maverick Maestro by Maurice Peress 9781612058757
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York's Washington Heights, became... -
Pepper Adams: Saxophone Trailblazer by Gary Carner 9781438494357
Booksplease Price: £19.61Pepper Adams is more than a definitive biography of Park "Pepper" Adams (1930-1986). The culmination of thirty-seven years of research, it's a fascinating account of Adams's life and times, thanks to... -
The Bear Comes Home: A Novel by Rafi Zabor 9780393318630
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.79The hero of this sensational debut novel is an alto-sax virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Coltrane and Rollins. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Blake- and... -
Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy by 9783865216731
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Pull My Daisy is a 1959 short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never... -
Beats at Naropa by Anne Waldman 9781566892278
Booksplease Price: £14.08“At Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, there has long been an illuminating, dynamic, ongoing exchange of ideas about the history and legacy of the Beat Generation—an... -
The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight by Peter C. Zimmerman 9781496832221
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight features twenty-one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience, and several as many as seventy-five. In... -
Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader by Daniel Chaffee
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Charles Lemert is one of the most renowned critics of social theory and theorists today. The editors of this book have offered and contextualised many of his best essays and situated them against the... -
From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen by Professor Marcia Pally
Booksplease Price: £27.79Leonard Cohen's troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohen's work, this book is the... -
Talent Abounds: Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers by Robert F. Arnove
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69How can youthful talent become world-class talent? Talent Abounds tells the stories of master teachers and their students who raise performance to peak levels in classical music and conducting, jazz,... -
Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography by Gary Carner 9780810888739
Booksplease Price: £56.42Pepper Adams' Joy Road is more than a compendium of sessions and gigs done by the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history. It's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times, thanks to... -
Ignition: Superior Communication Strategies for Creating Stronger Connections by Matthew L. Moseley 9780367559427
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64Ignition is a book of dispatches from the frontlines of communication strategy. Matthew L. Moseley draws on his eclectic life experiences to investigate the link between success and effective...