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Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson’s Lost Photograph by Zeke Schein with Poppy Z. Bright
by C. Michael Bailey
Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph Zeke Schein with Poppy Z. Bright 400 Pages ISBN: # 978-1455622450 Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. 2017 We have been quickly approaching a reportage endgame on the legend and reality of storied bluesman, Robert Johnson. There exist several unpublished ...
Blue Grass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music by Craig Harris
by C. Michael Bailey
Blue Grass, Newgrass, Old-Time, and Americana Music Craig Harris 400 Pages ISBN: # 978-1455624010 Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. 2018 Musician/author Craig Harris' previous book, The Band: Pioneers of Americana Music (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) focused intensely on a single pixel in the universe he reveals in his present expansive ...
Grande Musica Nera - Storia dell'Art Ensemble of Chicago
by Angelo Leonardi
Grande Musica Nera --Storia dell'Art Ensemble of Chicago Paul Steinbeck 399 pagine ISBN: 978-88-229-0164-4 Quodlibet 2018 Pubblicato lo scorso anno negli Stati Uniti col titolo di Message to Our Folks questo è il primo studio organico sull'Art Ensemble of Chicago, scritto Paul Steinbeck, professore di musica alla Washington University ...
The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
by Ian Patterson
The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture Dale Chapman282 PagesISBN: 9780520279384 University of California Press 2018 What explains vibraphonist Stefon Harris giving a TED talk at a conference devoted to behavioral finance? Why would one of the world's largest investment banks sink $10 million into the New Orleans ...
Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip
by Doug Collette
Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter in the Grateful Dead's Long Strange Trip Joel Selvin with Pamela Turley 288 Pages ISBN: #978-0306903052 Da Capo Press 2018 Joel Selvin's Fare Thee Well may end up equally parts enlightening and disillusioning for whoever reads it. Drawing upon his coverage of the ...
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer
by David A. Orthmann
Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer Bill Bruford 282 Pages ISBN: #9780472053780 University of Michigan Press 2018 Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer isn't the place to look for colorful, gossipy stories about Bill Bruford's celebrated years as a prog rock architect and drummer with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, ...
This Is Hip - The Life of Mark Murphy
by Angelo Leonardi
This is Hip —The Life of Mark Murphy Peter Jones 247 Pages ISBN: # 978-1-78179-473-9 Equinox Publishing 2018 Non è casuale che questa bella biografia sul più eclettico jazz singer bianco sia opera di un inglese e venga pubblicata in Gran Bretagna. Il pubblico del Regno Unito ha supportato ...
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music And The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
by Ian Patterson
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music And The Free-Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 Val Wilmer 408 Pages ISBN: 978 1 78816 071 1 Serpent's Tail 2018 First published in 1977, journalist, author and black music historian Val Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life... makes a welcome print return at a ...
Eugenio Mirti, Leonardo Schiavone: The Taiwan Travel
by Angelo Leonardi
The Taiwan Travel Eugenio Mirti --Leonardo Schiavone 316 pagine Jazzespresso 2018 The Taiwan Travel è un libro fotografico che racchiude più di 280 istantanee a colori di Leonardo Schiavone, scattate durante un viaggio nell'omonima isola orientale, e brevi testi di Eugenio Mirti, chitarrista, scrittore e collaboratore di Jazzit. ...
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
by Doug Collette
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 Ryan H. Walsh 368 Pages ISBN: # 978-0735221345 Penguin Press 2018 Before thoroughly delving into Ryan H. Walsh's Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968, a reader can thumb randomly through its three-hundred fifty-some pages and find nary a reference to ...
