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Norman Hathaway & Dan Nadel: Electrical Banana - Masters of Psychedelic Art
by AAJ Italy Staff
Electrical Banana - Masters of Psychedelic Art di Norman Hathaway & Dan Nadel Damiani Editore Valutazione: 4,5 stelle Sin dall'antichità, la storia della musica si intreccia spesso con quella dell'arte (pensate per esempio ai musicisti e agli strumenti protagonisti di alcuni dipinti di Vermeer) e questo assunto è ancora più vero negli ultimi cinquant'anni, con l'esplosione ...
Beyond A Love Supreme: John Coltrane And The Legacy Of An Album
by Ian Patterson
Beyond A Love Supreme:John Coltrane And The Legacy of An Album Tony Whyton Pages: 176 ISBN: 978-0-19-973323-1 Oxford University Press 2013 Few jazz icons have cast such a long shadow as saxophonist John Coltrane. Since his death at the age of 40 in 1967, ...
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker by Charles Haddix
by C. Michael Bailey
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie ParkerCharles Haddix190 PagesISBN: 025203791University of Illinois Press2013 Charlie Parker shares with delta blues legend Robert Johnson the lack of a comprehensive and academically-sound biography. Johnson's biographical material is strewn across several books, the earliest riddled with ...
David Byrne: How Music Works
by Nenad Georgievski
How Music WorksDavid ByrneHardcover, 352 pagesISBN: 1936365537Canongate Books Ltd.2012By definition, a renaissance man suggests a highly cultivated man of many accomplishments, someone who has a broad base of knowledge and interests, and is skilled in multiple fields or multiple disciplines. As a musician, singer, ...
John Densmore: The Doors Unhinged
by Doug Collette
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes On TrialJohn Densmore296 pagesISBN: 1479263133CreateSpace2013Notwithstanding the all-too-genuine ambivalence that permeates The Doors Unhinged, John Densmore may not have done any favors for himself or the legacy of his band by writing the book. It's difficult, nigh impossible, ...
Brunetto Salvarani e Odoardo Semellini - Dio, tu e le rose
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dio, tu e le rose di Brunetto Salvarani e Odoardo Semellini Il Margine - Pagine 363 Euro 18,00. Ormai largamente collaudata da svariate pubblicazioni, la coppia composta dal teologo Brunetto Salvarani e dall'operatore musicale Odo Semellini colpisce ancora: dopo un già indicativo volume intitolato Il Vangelo secondo Leonard Cohen (Claudiana, 2010) e perlustrazioni attorno ai vari ...
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
by Nenad Georgievski
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock CriticJim DeRogatis352 PagesISBN: 0767905091Crown Publishing2000If anyone ever writes a history on rock criticism and music journalism, certain names--like Peter Guralnick, Greil Marcus, Simon Frith and especially Lester Bangs--will surely lead off ...
Idris Muhammad with Britt Alexander: Inside The Music – The Life of Idris Muhammad
by Dave Wayne
Inside the Music: The Life of Idris Muhammad Idris Muhammad with Britt Alexander 235 pages ISBN: 978-1-4691-9216-1 XLibris Corporation 2012 In popular music, particularly before musicians' credit listings became the norm on records, drummers --and really all rhythm section stalwarts--worked in obscurity no matter how brilliant their playing was. ...
Alan Light: The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
by Nenad Georgievski
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah" Alan Light pp. 288 ISBN: 1451657846 2012 For ages musicologists, psychologists, producers and people alike have tried to decipher or unravel the secret of what makes certain songs so likeable and popular, even to give ...
Giorgio Lombardi - Hot Jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Hot Jazz - da Jelly Roll Morton a Wynton Marsalis di Giorgio Lombardi Daniela Piazza Editore, Torino 2012 Pag. 421; euro 28. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1993 per le edizioni De Rubeis col titolo New Orleans, Chicago New York, il testo di Giorgio Lombardi è stato negli anni ampliato e aggiornato, diventando un classico ...
