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Portrait Of Johnny: The Life Of John Herndon Mercer
by Jim Santella
Portrait Of Johnny: The Life Of John Herndon Mercer Gene Lees Softcover; 360 pages ISBN: 0-634-09929-9 Hal Leonard 2004 Gene Lees tells of Johnny Mercer's life and career with passion. Like a good novel, Portrait Of Johnny is a book that you just don't want to ...
Power, Passion And Beauty: The Story Of The Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra
by Doug Collette
Power, Passion And Beauty: The Story Of The Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra Walter Kolosky Paperback; 313 pages ISBN 0-9761016-2-9 Abstract Logix Books 2005 Because the Mahavishnu Orchestra has had such a profound influence on the jazz that followed it, the band's story begs--no, demands--to be ...
Fusion Books: Running the Voodoo Down & Power, Passion and Beauty
by Andrey Henkin
Philip Freeman Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis Backbeat Books ISBN 0-87930-828-1 2005 Some 35 years after fusion's meteoric rise, scholars can approach the movement with some measure of academic gravity. Two books discuss in great depths the father and one son of this ...
The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records
by C. Andrew Hovan
The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records Ashley Kahn Hardcover; 338 pages ISBN: 978-0-393-05879-6 W.W. Norton & Company 2006 Collectors are a curious lot. Be it baseball cards or jazz records, those who dabble in amassing artifacts related to a particular infatuation will ...
Louis Armstrong
by Jim Santella
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans Thomas Brothers Hardcover; 386 pages ISBN: 0393061094 W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 2006 Much has already been written about the life of Louis Armstrong. We've got a clear picture of the New Orleans marching bands and the performance hall music that influenced ...
Portrait Of Johnny: The Life Of John Herndon Mercer
by David Rickert
Gene Lees Portrait Of Johnny: The Life Of John Herndon Mercer Pantheon Books ISBN: 0-634-09929-9 384 pages 2004 When it comes to songwriting, lyricists don't get much credit. While many people may know, for instance, that Henry Mancini wrote the music for “Moon River, many fewer ...
Letters From New Orleans
by Bob Jacobson
Letters From New Orleans Rob Walker Paperback; 226 pages ISBN: 1-891053-01-9 Garrett County Press 2005 Former Texan and Greenwich Villager Rob Walker and his girlfriend, E., relocated to New Orleans in January, 2000. The former journalist and editor immediately began relating his experiences and impressions via ...
88 Keys: The Making of a Steinway Piano
by Victor Verney
88 Keys: The Making of a Steinway Piano Miles Chapin Hardcover & Paperback; 144 pages ISBN: 1574671529 Random House 1997 Here's an intriguing trivia question: what's the most complex piece of handmade machinery in the world? Answer: a Steinway grand piano. This is the core premise ...
Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music
by Florence Wetzel
Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music Jeannie Cheatham Hardcover; 416 pages ISBN: 0292712936 University of Texas Press 2006 Jeannie Cheatham's recently released autobiography Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music is the exuberant tale of one of ...
With Billie
by Joel Roberts
With Billie Julia Blackburn Pantheon Press 2005 ISBN: 0-375-40610-7 354 pages The story behind this portrait of Billie Holiday is a compelling and tragic one. More than 30 years ago, a woman named Linda Kuehl set out to write a biography of Holiday. She conducted over ...
