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Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art – Words and Wisdom
by Doug Collette
Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art--Words and Wisdom Nora Guthrie and Robert Santelli 340 Pages ISBN: # 978-1797211787 Chronicle Books 2021 Hefting this weighty tome for an initial perusal, the word that first comes to mind is cornucopia. This extensive collection of lyrics, excerpts from journals and notebooks along with ...
There Was A Fire: Jews, Music, And The American Dream
by Kyle Simpler
There Was A Fire: Jews, Music, And The American Dream Ben Sidran 405 Pages ISBN: # 9780578800691 Nardis Books 2021 Ben Sidran has established himself as a formidable talent in the jazz world as both a pianist and a songwriter. He has recorded almost forty solo albums and ...
Zappa da leggere
by Mario Calvitti
La figura di Frank Zappa ha da sempre fornito innumerevoli stimoli a chiunque venisse in contatto con la sua ricchissima personalità, dando vita non solo a numerosi tributi musicali, come abbiamo visto di recente, ma anche a una vasta serie di pubblicazioni scritte, comprendenti sia studi e analisi della sua opera musicale che biografie e testimonianze ...
La Storia del Jazz di Ted Gioia torna in edizione ampliata
by Angelo Leonardi
Storia del Jazz Ted Gioia 614 Pagine ISBN: # 978-88-5927-927-3 Edizioni EDT/Siena Jazz 2021 A pochi mesi dalla pubblicazione negli Stati Uniti esce in Italia la terza edizione della Storia del Jazz di Ted Gioia, ampliata e aggiornata alle ultime vicende e ai nuovi protagonisti. Che ...
Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Times Remembered -The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio Joe La Barbera and Charles Levin 206 Pages ISBN: #13 978-1-57441-844-6 University of North Texas Press 2021 Reading about the life, career, and ultimate tragedy that was Bill Evans--as opposed to listening to his glorious playing--is neither an ...
Vince Guaraldi at the Piano
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 354 pages ISBN: # 978-078645902-5 McFarland & Company, Inc, 2012 Soon after autumn leaves fall, promos hit the airwaves for the various Charlie Brown Holiday specials. Those timeless animations are lathered up with marvelously hip jazz—that of pianist Vince Guaraldi. While umbilical tied ...
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 ...
