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The Beatles Anthology (25th Anniversary Reissue)

by Doug Collette
November 26, 2025

The Beatles Anthology 25th Anniversary Reissue The Beatles 368 Pages ISBN: # 978-1797241487 Chronicle Books 2025 Reprinted to commemorate the quarter-century since its first publication, the 2025 edition of The Beatles Anthology (25th Anniversary Reissue) book is little different from its now hard-to-find predecessor, except in the most cosmetic ...

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Graham Parker's Howlin' Wind

by Doug Collette
November 22, 2025

Graham Parker's Howlin' Wind Jay Nachman 247 Pages ISBN: #979-8299219296 Self Published 2025 About fifty pages into the two hundred forty-seven total of Jay Nachman's Graham Parker's Howlin' Wind, the narrative turns distinctly cinematic, right in keeping with a kinetic cover painting by Steve Keene much superior to the ...

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Brotzman: In My Focus

by Nenad Georgievski
November 8, 2025

Brotzmann, In My Focus Žiga Koritnik 152 Pages Self-Published 2025Some books go beyond the simple act of documentation. They do not just tell a story; they immerse you in a world. Žiga Koritnik's book on Peter Brötzmann is one of those books--a deeply personal, evocative, and visually striking tribute to ...

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U2: Until the End of the World

by Nenad Georgievski
November 8, 2025

U2: Until the End of the World Bradley Morgan 240 Pages ISBN: 1786751658 Gemini Adult Books Limited 2025 There are bands we live with for so long that they become part of our personal geography. For Bradley Morgan, author of this new book on U2, it's clearly the ...

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Listening: Music, Movement, Mind

by Tyran Grillo
October 17, 2025

Listening: Music, Movement, Mind Nik Bärtsch 352 Pages ISBN: 9783037786703 Lars Müller Publishers 2021 If Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch, best known as the mastermind--or perhaps, more fittingly, the beginnermind--behind “Ronin," an ever-evolving interpretive organism for his modular compositions, has long seemed an enigmatic figure, then Listening: Music, Movement, ...

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The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

by Katchie Cartwright
October 15, 2025

The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life John Gennari 264 Pages ISBN: #978-1-68458-285-3 Brandeis University Press 2025 Award-winning author, University of Vermont professor and Berkshire County native John Gennari encapsulates his fascinating history of The Jazz ...

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Apex Blues tackles legacies of Jimmie Noone and Jimmy Noone Jr.

by Jim Trageser
October 5, 2025

Apex Blues Cecile J. Picou 232 Pages ISBN: 979-8891552524 Self Published 2024 Quietly published in 2024 with little to no fanfare, Cecile Picou's dual biography of New Orleans' Jimmie Noone and his son, San Diego's Jimmy Noone Jr., offers some wonderful insights to San Diego's jazz, blues and ...

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Claudio Bonomi: Le migliori sigle della nostra vita

by Angelo Leonardi
August 28, 2025

Le migliori sigle della nostra vita Claudio Bonomi 195 pagine ISBN: #978-88-97389-12-2 Crac Edizioni 2024 È stato il mondo delle sigle televisive l'oggetto di studio dell'ultimo libro del compianto Claudio Bonomi, il critico musicale milanese recentemente scomparso, apprezzato anche dai nostri lettori nella sua lunga collaborazione con All About ...

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Ray Brown: His Life and Music

by Andrew Hunter
August 25, 2025

Ray Brown: His Life and Music Jay Sweet 310 Pages ISBN: # 9781800505353 Equinox Publishing2025 It is such a common occurrence in life that bad things happen to good people, and conversely that good things happen to bad people, that there is a branch of theology given to ...

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Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies

by Katchie Cartwright
August 22, 2025

Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies Benjamin Tausig 264 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-3170-3 Duke University Press 2025 You may have seen pianist-singer and entertainer Maurice Rocco in Incendiary Blonde (Paramount, 1945), the rags-to-riches story of Texas Guinan, the Waco-born daughter ...