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Dizzy Gillespie by Dizzy Gillespie 9780634082160
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634082160Author Dizzy GillespiePage Count 40Imprint -
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 9780571232741
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and... -
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie: A Man, a Trumpet, and a Journey to Bebop by Susan Engle 9781618511539
RRP: €11.94Booksplease Price: €8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618511539Author Susan EngleFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint -
The Three Out's Move by James Gaunt 9798765122976
Booksplease Price: €24.42This is the story of Australia's most popular modern jazz group of the 1960s, and their best-selling debut album Move.The Three Out were Australia's most popular modern jazz band. Their debut album... -
Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.96Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discusses the many women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about... -
Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris DeVito 9781556520044
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.46Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader pollJohn Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and... -
The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight by Peter C. Zimmerman 9781496837431
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.76The 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... -
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon 9780520280649
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €26.04Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine... -
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker 9781501122422
Booksplease Price: €15.90A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s-"Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who... -
The African American Trails of Eastern North Carolina by Beverly Patterson 9781469610795
Booksplease Price: €21.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469610795Author Beverly PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others by Benjamin Franklin 9781570037436
RRP: €40.80Booksplease Price: €32.88This book offers an oral history of musical genres from the Palmetto state musicians who helped define the sounds.From Jabbo Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Drink Small to Johnny Helms, Dick Goodwin, and... -
The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson by Steven Loza 9781496817389
RRP: €32.39Booksplease Price: €27.85Jazz great Gerald Wilson (1918-2014), born in Shelby, Mississippi, left a global legacy of paramount significance through his progressive musical ideas and his orchestra's consistent influence on... -
Dizzy, Duke, Brother Ray, and Friends: On and Off the Record with Jazz Greats by Lillian Terry 9780252083167
Booksplease Price: €24.14Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federation and pioneered jazz education in Italy. Her work... -
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Chuck Haddix
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10Saxophone 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... -
Lester Young by Lewis Porter 9780472089222
RRP: €21.54Booksplease Price: €20.95Praise for Lester Young:". . . a schematic of unparalleled insight and detail."---Down Beat"A monumental work."---Dizzy Gillespie". . . a major contribution to jazz scholarship . . . for its... -
Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell
Booksplease Price: €24.04This 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... -
It came upon the midnight clear by Valerie Capers 9780193434042
Booksplease Price: €4.94for tenor solo and SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This straightforward but effective a cappella arrangement of the well-known English carol speaks directly to the listener, and its occasional... -
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC by Karen Chilton 9780472034475
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €27.92"Hazel Scott was an important figure in the later part of the Black renaissance onward. Even in an era where there was limited mainstream recognition of Black Stars, Hazel Scott's talent stood out... -
Portraits in Jazz: A piano album by Valerie Capers 9780193385627
RRP: €15.00Booksplease Price: €12.73This selection of twelve pieces draws on a variety of jazz styles associated with famous artists including Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. The pieces are simple yet delightful,... -
Talking Jazz by Ben Sidran
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €19.81Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett,... -
Giant Steps: Bebop And The Creators Of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 Kenny Mathieson 9780862418595
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €14.98Giant 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... -
Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World: An Illustrated Tribute, 1949-1965 by ,Leo,T. Sullivan 9780764355868
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €20.65Birdland 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... -
Coltrane: Chasin' The Trane by J. Thomas 9780306800436
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.80Always elusive, constantly moving, incessantly changing, John Coltrane stood astride the jazz world of the late'50s and'60s. He was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music influenced... -
Cunard Yanks: Liverpool, New York City, Hamburg and the Beatles by John Winter 9781805144915
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10It is 1954. Steve and Dave are looking for adventure. Their home town of Liverpool is scarred by war. New York is the future and it will soon be the richest city in the world. They need to see it and... -
The Andre Hodeir Jazz Reader by Andre Hodeir
Booksplease Price: €36.97Initially trained as a violinist, then as a composer, Andre Hodeir first began writing about jazz in the 1940s. As editor-in-chief of the French magazine ""Jazz Hot"", he was an early proponent of... -
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy L. Kernodle 9780252085536
Booksplease Price: €24.50First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in-and stretching beyond-a dizzying range of musical styles. Her... -
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy L. Kernodle 9780252043604
RRP: €120.00Booksplease Price: €96.12First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in-and stretching beyond-a dizzying range of musical styles. Her... -
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,... -
Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures by Lisette Model 9780871301024
RRP: €67.20Booksplease Price: €43.58Shelved during the McCarthy era, Model's photographs of jazz musicians-together with a text by Langston Hughes-are finally published for the first time Street photographer Lisette Model spent... -
Kd by Dave Oliphant
RRP: €25.14Booksplease Price: €17.10Written 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 Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture by Tom Perchard 9781845533823
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.77This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a prodigy: recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenager, joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers not much... -
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality,... -
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry by Clark Terry 9780520287518
RRP: €27.60Booksplease Price: €24.22Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920,... -
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia 9780195399707
Booksplease Price: €15.59Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic-acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the... -
Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan by Jeff McMillan 9780472032815
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €27.92One of the most individual stylists of his time, trumpeter Lee Morgan began his professional career in Philadelphia at age fifteen. At eighteen, after a short stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers,... -
Bohemians: A Graphic History by Paul Buhle 9781781682616
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.15The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergere of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan... -
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy 9780306902802
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.72**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... -
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My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy by Albert "Prodigy" Johnson
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11From one of the greatest rappers of all time, the memoir of a life cut short, a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's Golden Era...In this often violent but always introspective memoir, Mobb... -
The Ladies Who Sing With the Band by Betty Bennett 9780810837140
Booksplease Price: €73.26Betty Bennett evokes a bygone era when "territory" and "name" bands-each with its own "girl singer"-criscrossed the country in Ladies Who Sing With the Band. The author's career intersected with... -
African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston by Randy Weston 9780822347989
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €22.54The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world's most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six...