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Singing Jazz | |||
| The Singers and their Styles | Music | |||
| Bruce Crowther; Mike Pinfold | ||||
| Miller Freeman 1997 256 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0879305193 | ||||
| Published Price $17.95 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| Drawing extensively on the experiences and thoughts of singers past and present, the authors explore the diverse and stimulating world of the jazz singer. The ups and downs of a tough profession are examined -the learning process; the problems of building a repertoire, finding work, travelling, performing in often difficult circumstances; and the struggle for recognition in the world of popular music where talent and dedication are sometimes not enough. Plus an A-Z of singers and a photo gallery. | ||||
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| The Giants of Jazz Piano | Music | |||
| Robert L Doerschuk | ||||
| Backbeat 2001 342 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0879306564 | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| 'Every step forward in jazz piano has been taken within a context of what came before': Robert L Doerschuk surveys the careers of 88 jazz pianists - one for each key on the piano - beginning with the age of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller and taking the story down to the present day with modern legends such as Harry Connick, Jr and Benny Green. Each of the essays includes analysis of the player's style and innovations, with discussion of key recordings. | ||||
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Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the US | |||
| Third edition | Music | |||
| Christiane Bird | ||||
| Da Capo 2001 486 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0306810344 | ||||
| Published Price £14.50 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| What are the best clubs in Chicago? Which city has the largest jazz museum? A comprehensive look at everything jazz and blues orientated in the US across 25 cities and the Mississippi delta. Covering everything from national clubs, landmarks, festivals and record stores, to radio stations and historic theatres, the guide also includes anecdotes from club owners and musicians. | ||||
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Faith in Time | |||
| The Life of Jimmy Scott | Music | |||
| David Ritz | ||||
| Da Capo 2002 270 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0306810883 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Born with a genetic disorder that meant his voice never broke, Jimmy Scott became one of jazz's greatest balladeers. A star in the 1950s, his style influenced Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Nancy Wilson, while a newer generation of fans includes Madonna, Lou Reed and Ethan Hawke. This affectionate biography follows Scott's career from performing with Lionel Hampton, Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Stan Getz to his forced retirement and triumphant come-back at the age of 66. | ||||
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Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber | |||
| Their Lives and Music | Music | |||
| Daniel Felsenfeld | ||||
| Amadeus 2005 180 pages | ||||
| PB + CD 1574671081 | ||||
| Published Price £17.50 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Daniel Felsenfeld describes the lives and work of Benjamin Britten and the American composer Samuel Barber: two men who never met, yet were 'fighting the same war from different sides of the ocean' - resisting the demand to be 'progressive'. The biographical sketches are followed by analyses of the eight pieces on the accompanying CD, among these: Britten's Passacaglia from Peter Grimes and the Third String Quartet, and Barber's famous Agagio for strings and Knoxville: Summer of 1915. | ||||
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The Life of Charles Ives | |||
| Music | ||||
| Stuart Feder | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 1999 200 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521599318 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| With its nostalgia for the patriotic songs and religious music he learned from his bandmaster father, Ives's innovative music is exceptionally autobiographical: even his very first song was a dirge on the family cat. Taking up Ives's own statement that art 'comes directly out of the heart of experience of life', Stuart Feder, a professor of psychiatry, illuminates the complexities of the man's character through analysis of his music and the circumstances of its composition. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. | ||||
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The Fifty Greatest Jazz Piano Players of All Time | |||
| Ranking, Analysis and Photos | Music | |||
| Gene Rizzo | ||||
| Hal Leonard 2005 222 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0634074164 | ||||
| Published Price £11.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This is a provocative assessment of the piano greats of the last 80 years, as chosen in a survey of today's best minds in the jazz world. Not only are there 50 concise biographies with photographs, but the 20 runners-up, the top ten women and the other possible contenders are also listed, to prompt debate about their relative talents. Do the 'monumental technique, dynamic originality, and contagious swinging beat' truly make Oscar Peterson number one? | ||||
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The Unknown Callas | |||
| The Greek Years | Music | |||
| Nicholas Petsalis-Diomidis | ||||
| Amadeus 2001 672 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 157467059X | ||||
| Published Price £33.95 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| Nicholas Petsalis-Diomidis presents his extensive researches into the first 22 years of Maria Callas' life, in particular the period from 1937 to 1945 which she spent in Greece. Drawing on documents from the National Conservatory and Athens Opera and interviews with many colleagues and friends, he illuminates previously neglected aspects of the soprano's early career and home life against the backdrop of occupied Greece. The Appendix gives a full list of Callas' appearances and repertoire during these years. | ||||
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Babylon's Burning | |||
| From Punk to Grunge | Music | |||
| Clinton Heylin | ||||
| Viking 2007 694 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0670916064 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| Covering the years from 1971 to the early 1990s, Babylon's Burning traces the origins of punk as a reaction against rock and asks why, after the Sex Pistols inspired an explosion of music, the phenomenon was so short-lived, with the death of Kurt Cobain marking the end of an era. Heylin draws on his interviews with key figures in Britain, America and Australia to produce an authoritative history of an anarchic and controversial period in the history of modern music. | ||||
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Shoot the Singer! | |||
| Music Censorship Today | Music | |||
| Marie Korpe (Edited by) | ||||
| Zed 2004 228 pages | ||||
| HB + CD 1842775049 | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| With contributions from academics, journalists and musicians themselves, this survey of music censorship covers a surprisingly wide range of countries, from Afghanistan and Iran to France and post-9/11 America. It explores the methods and logic of governments, commercial corporations and religious groups in suppressing the freedom of performers, including two instances where censors themselves explain what they are doing. The book comes with a CD which presents ten tracks by the artists discussed. | ||||
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Ives and Copland | |||
| A Listener's Guide | Music | |||
| Daniel Felsenfeld | ||||
| Amadeus 2004 156 pages | ||||
| PB + CD 1574670980 | ||||
| Published Price £13.95 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Despite their very different backgrounds and characters Charles Ives (1874-1954) and Aaron Copland (1900-1990) were the two mavericks who did most to shape an 'American sound' in classical music. This book is a short introduction to their work, with a biographical sketch of each composer, a CD of seven pieces (including Copland's Appalachian Spring and Ives's The Unanswered Question) and a detailed guide to listening which explains how the music works. | ||||
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An Introduction to Bach Studies | |||
| Music | ||||
| Daniel R Melamed; Michael Marissen | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2006 189 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0195304926 | ||||
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| This user-friendly guide helps the student to negotiate a path through the vast field of JS Bach scholarship. Listing the most important primary and secondary sources, its multiple bibliographies survey topics ranging from Bach's life and world to questions of analysis and performance practice. The authors use their extensive experience to identify hundreds of key works, discussing their place in the long history of Bach studies and drawing attention to the most important issues. | ||||
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Johan Svendsen | |||
| The Man, the Maestro, the Music | Music | |||
| Finn Benestad; Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe | ||||
| Peer Gynt 1995 428 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0964523809 | ||||
| Published Price £34.50 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| Although he is now a neglected composer, Johan Svendsen (1840-1911) was musical director of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House for 25 years, and during his own lifetime he was held in the same high regard as Grieg (with whom he maintained a close friendship). This is the first full-length biography of Norway's greatest symphonist; it includes excerpts from the composer's letters, analysis of the music and a complete list of works. | ||||
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Edvard Grieg | |||
| Diaries, Articles, Speeches | Music | |||
| Finn Benestad; William H Halverson (Edited by) | ||||
| Peer Gynt 2001 454 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0964523833 | ||||
| Published Price £34.50 | Sale Price £5.99 | |||
| The companion volume to Grieg's Letters, this book presents the remainder of the most important writings by the composer, many of them translated into English for the first time. The writings are arranged in four sections: autobiographical writings, notably Grieg's diaries for 1865-66 and 1905-7; articles on other composers (including Dvorak, Mozart and Wagner); articles on various topics ranging from a proposed Norwegian music academy to his own piano pieces; and speeches. Each text is fully introduced and annotated. | ||||
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The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Music | |||
| Music | ||||
| Edward A Lippman | ||||
| Nebraska University Press 1999 250 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0803279841 | ||||
| Published Price £18.95 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| Edward Lippman's writings on musical aesthetics include both systematic and historical approaches and reflect his unrivalled knowledge of the philosophical literature on music and his deep understanding of the musical repertory. The 12 articles in this collection, originally published between 1953 and 1994, represent characteristic facets of his work and include studies of symbolism in music, the aesthetics of strophic song, an interpretation of Bach's 'Ich folge dir gleichfalls', the tonal ideal of Romanticism and the aesthetic theories of Richard Wagner. | ||||
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