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Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters
by Doug Collette
Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters Mike Edison 264 pages ISBN: #978-1493047734 Backbeat Books 2019 Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is a schizophrenic piece of work. But, as befits a book wherein the main title and subtitle could be transposed with no loss of ...
Massimo Mantovani, Giorgio Rimondi: Storie di Standard
by Angelo Leonardi
Storie di Standard Massimo Mantovani—Giorgio Rimondi 88 Pages ISBN: #978-88-944057-0-5 Edizioni Scuola di Musica Moderna 2019 Ai testi di Luca Bragalini e di Ted Gioia sulla storia e l'analisi degli standard, (rispettivamente Storie Poco Standard e Gli Standard del Jazz) si aggiunge questo spigliato—ma affatto superficiale—volume di Giorgio ...
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock by Ed Ward
by C. Michael Bailey
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964--1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock Ed Ward 336 Pages ISBN: # 978-1250165190 Flatiron Books 2019 Ed Ward, Rock Historian on Terry Gross's NPR program Fresh Air (WHYY, Philadelphia), completes his survey of the history of ...
Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road And The End of The Beatles
by Doug Collette
Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road And The End of the Beatles Kenneth Womack 288 Pages ISBN: #978-1501746857 Cornell University Press 2019 Reverberating with all manner of interpretations, Solid State is a magnificently ironic title for a book purporting to tell The Story of Abbey Road and The ...
The Road Goes on Forever: Fifty Years of The Allman Brothers Band Music (1969-2019)
by Doug Collette
The Road Goes on Forever: Fifty Years of The Allman Brothers Band Music (1969-2019) Michael Buffalo Smith 352 Pages ISBN: # 978-0881467123 Mercer University Press 2019 In approaching Michael Buffalo Smith's book The Road Goes On Forever, it is absolutely essential to take the subtitle literally. In Fifty ...
The Musician's Lifeline: Advice for All Musicians, Student to Professional
by Jim Worsley
The Musician's Lifetime Peter Erskine & Dave Black 191 pages ISBN-10: 1-4706-4247-6 Alfred Music 2019 In 2017 drummers Peter Erskine and Dave Black co-authored a book entitled The Drummer's Lifeline. The purpose of the book was to share their paired expertise of the profession. Written in a ...
Freedom Music: Wales, Emancipation & Jazz 1850-1950
by Ian Patterson
Freedom Music: Wales, Emancipation & Jazz 1850-1950 Jen Wilson 336 Pages ISBN: 978-1-78683-407-2 University of Wales Press 2019 The emancipation in the title of Jen Wilson's deeply researched book is two-pronged. On the one hand it refers to African American slaves risking their lives to escape pre-civil war plantations ...
Neil Young - To Feel The Music: A Songwriter's Mission To Save High-Quality Audio
by Doug Collette
To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio Neil Young and Phil Baker 242 Pages ISBN: #1948836386 BenBella Books 2019 In his introduction to To Feel The Music, Neil Young ascertains that the point of decline in the sound quality of modern music began with ...
Dreaming Drums
by Alain Drouot
Dreaming Drums Christian Ducasse / Franck Médioni 144 Pages ISBN: # 978-2-86364-319-8 Éditions Parenthèses 2018 To celebrate 40 years spent documenting jazz, French photographer Christian Ducasse decided to focus on drummers--the first time those timekeepers receive such an honor. In this endeavor, he partnered with Franck Médioni, a ...
The Vinyl Frontier: The Story Of The Voyager Golden Record
by Ian Patterson
The Vinyl Frontier:The Story Of The Voyager Golden Record Jonathon Scott 288 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4729-5613-2 Bloomsbury Sigma 2019 It was a message-in-a-bottle on a truly cosmic scale. In 1977, two golden records containing images, music and sounds from Earth were attached to the sides of the Voyager I ...
