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U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots In Mythic America
by Nenad Georgievski
U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America Bradley Morgan 216 pagesISBN: 1493061178 Backbeat 2021 Popular music, like books or visual arts, is often one of the best ways we have through which we can view our own cultural orientation and the times we live in. The artistic ...
Alberto Treccani Chinelli: Le Lontane Origini del Blues e del Jazz
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Le Lontane Origini del Blues e del Jazz Alberto Treccani Chinelli 127 pagine ISBN: 978-88-6231-747-4 Arcana 2020 “Questo libro non intende proporre la storia del blues e del jazz ma interessare il lettore a quei fatti e a quei misfatti che, tra la fine dell'Ottocento e l'inizio del secolo scorso, ...
Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story
by Doug Collette
Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story Michael Elliott 280 pages ISBN: #978-164160420 Chicago Review Press 2021 Reading Have A Little Faith, it becomes clear quite early on how deep and abiding is author Michael Elliott's passion for his subject, In fact, by the time The John Hiatt ...
Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock
by Doug Collette
Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock Lisa S. Johnson 388 pages ISBN: # 978-1648960239 Princeton Architectural Press 2021 Sometimes a guitar is just a guitar. More often, however, it's a talisman or a totem, a combination of toy and weapon, simultaneous object of love and hate. Above all, though, it's ...
Set The Night On Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar With The Doors
by Doug Collette
Set The Night On Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with The Doors Robby Krieger with Jeff Alulis 432 pages ISBN: # 978-0316243346 Little, Brown and Company 2021 Reading the memoirs of the Doors' Robby Krieger is like encountering and catching up with an old acquaintance after a ...
The Beatles: Get Back
by Doug Collette
The Beatles: Get Back The Beatles 240 pages ISBN: # 978-093511296 Callaway Arts & Entertainment 2021 Upon its original release, the Beatles' Let It Be (Apple, 1970) album was issued in a deluxe box set package in at least a dozen different countries—notably not the United States—that limited edition ...
Ted Gioia: Delta Blues
by Vic Albani
Delta Blues Ted Gioia 504 pagine ISBN: # 9788859266044 EDT 2020 Selezionato dal New York Times e da The Economist come uno dei cento migliori libri del 2008 vede la luce, grazie al sempre attento lavoro di Siena Jazz, una delle analisi più interessanti di sempre dedicate al mondo ...
Dexter Gordon - Sophisticated Giant. La biografia del grande sassofonista
by Angelo Leonardi
Dexter Gordon—Sophisticated Giant Maxine Gordon 294 pagine ISBN: # 9788859257523 EDT 2019 Questa splendida biografia di Dexter Gordon è in circolazione da un po' ma resta attuale come ogni classico: è infatti uno dei migliori (e appassionanti) esempi di letteratura jazzistica. Nessuno, meglio dell'ultima moglie Maxine, poteva delineare ...
Soundtrack To A Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
by Ian Patterson
Soundtrack To A Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism Richard Brent Turner 256 Pages ISBN: 9781479806768 NYU Press 2021 The influence of Islam on African American jazz musicians post-WWII and the influence of those musicians in the spread of Islam in American cities are interrelated topics that, ...
Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players
by Mark Sullivan
Guitar Talk: Conversations with Visionary Players Joel Harrison 256 Pages ISBN-13 : 978-1949597134 Terra Nova Press 2021 As founder of the Alternative Guitar Summit, guitarist/composer Joel Harrison has gotten to know a lot of adventurous contemporary guitarists: this book collects far-ranging conversations with twenty-seven of them. In fact, ...
