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John Coltrane Plays Giant Steps: Tenor Saxophone by John Coltrane 9780793563456
Booksplease Price: $33.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793563456Author John ColtraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest by Eric Nisenson
Booksplease Price: $21.59It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade centre, almost fourteen hundred feet above the... -
Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris DeVito 9781556520044
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.50Named 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... -
John Coltrane: His Life and Music by Lewis Porter 9780472086436
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $21.24This is a definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material. John Coltrane was a key figure in... -
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 9780571232741
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37No 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... -
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250822703Author Carole Boston WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 32< -
A Love Supreme: The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album by Ashley Kahn 9781783786053
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Written with the full co-operation of the Coltrane family and featuring the voices of... -
A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music by Jabari Asim
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99Get ready to swing with A Child's Introduction to Jazz, an interactive journey into one of the richest and most soulful music genres in the world. Listen while you learn with QR codes that will... -
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan 9781837260379
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.371959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue follows the... -
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan 9780525561026
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561026Author James KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint < -
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Covering everything from the music's structure and history... -
Birdland, The Jazz Corner of the World: An Illustrated Tribute, 1949-1965 by ,Leo,T. Sullivan 9780764355868
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $23.06Birdland 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... -
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper by Art Pepper
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Art 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... -
Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy: An Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate... -
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer 9780857864024
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Lester 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... -
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465093571Author Stephon AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Monument Eternal by Franya J. Berkman
Booksplease Price: $35.38Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she synthesized a wide range of musical genres including gospel, rhythm-and-blues,... -
Basquiat: A Graphic Novel by Paolo Parisi
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.40Cool, talented and transgressive, Jean-Michel Basquiat's life is just as fascinating as the work he produced.Delve into 1980s New York as this vivid graphic novel takes you on Basquiat's journey from... -
Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker by Bill Milkowski
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.37After 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... -
Slapstick by Roger McGough
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Wise, witty and thought-provoking poems by Roger McGough.If Philosophy is the Why?And Science is the How?Then Poetry is the Wow!In this stunning volume, you'll discover poems about poems, poems about... -
The Last Holiday: A Memoir Gil Scott-Heron 9781786890252
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one... -
My World by Luciano Pavarotti
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Every generation or so an opera singer attains the kind of public adulation and affection usually reserved for film stars or pop singers. Luciano Pavarotti reached this level of fame: he was the most... -
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Hallelujah!: The extraordinary story of Shaun Ryder and Happy Mondays by John Warburton 9780753507810 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $1.84The Mondays were the band who had it all. Credited with a range of achievements, from creating Madchester and introducing indie kids to dance music to bringing ecstasy to Britain, they were the rock... -
Lester Young by Lewis Porter 9780472089222
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $23.40Praise 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... -
Coltrane: Chasin' The Trane by J. Thomas 9780306800436
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.76Always 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... -
The Cover Art of Blue Note Records: The Collection by Graham Marsh
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.88The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham's classic collection of the unparalleled record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note record label. Around... -
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 by Val Wilmer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established... -
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art by Andy Hamilton 9780472032174
RRP: $32.09Booksplease Price: $31.58The 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... -
The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People by Francis Davis
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a ground-breaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the... -
PlayHouse: Poems by Jorrell Watkins 9780810147133
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Poems on Black joy, masculinity, and the music that transforms a space into a home Jorrell Watkins's debut poetry collection is a polyvocal, musically charged disruption of the United States's... -
Jazz Masters Of The 50s by Joe Goldberg 9780306801976
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.78The fifties, though a quiescent period in many ways, was one of the most fervent decades in jazz history. The landmarks of modern jazz were firmly planted and, it could be argued, nearly all... -
Trials of the Heart Stephen Wade 9781915179593
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Will the forbidden fruits of their labours come to light?As the end of the Second World War nears its close, a tense mood surrounds Leeds. Karel Letnov faces the noose at the Leeds assizes. Accused... -
Free Jazz by Ekkehard Jost 9780306805561
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.78When 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... -
Bird: The Legend Of Charlie Parker by Robert Reisner 9780306800696
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.78More than to any other musician, the credit for the birth of modern jazz belongs to Charles "Yardbird" Parker--known to his friends and fans simply as "Bird." Parker's virtuoso technique, melodic... -
Booze & Vinyl Vol. 2: 70 More Albums + 140 New Recipes by Andre Darlington
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45Get set to party with 70 great records-organized by theme, from Rockin' to Beats, Mellow to Jazzy & Bluesy-spanning the 1950s to today. Each entry features liner notes on the album and two... -
Kd by Dave Oliphant
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $19.10Written 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,... -
1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music by Andrew Grant Jackson
Booksplease Price: $21.51Fifty years ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the most ground-breaking year in music history. It was the year rock and roll evolved into the premier art form of its time and... -
Jazz and Palm Wine by Emmanuel Dongala
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Jazz, aliens, and witchcraft collide in this collection of short stories by renowned author Emmanuel Dongala. The influence of Kongo culture is tangible throughout, as customary beliefs clash with... -
Violin Jazz on a Winter's Night + CD: 11 Christmas classics by Nikki Iles
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $18.72Violin Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas album of stylish, swinging arrangements for violin and piano. Favourite Christmas carols and songs are given the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm,... -
Beneath the Neon Egg by Thomas E. Kennedy
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.55Patrick Bluett is searching for a new life in the low light of a Copenhagen winter. Divorced and navigating the rocky relationship with his grown-up, nest-flown children, Bluett spends his days...