While many publications claim to have captured the phenomenon that was "Swinging London", only one magazine was present to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unravelled. London Life remains the coolest document from the capital's most exciting period.
Requiem For The Timeless, Volume 2 explores more literally the remit of its title by focusing attention on the deceased. The Work also complements the previous volume, which was specifically a group biography. Each one of the chapters is a mini-book in itself, delving into the lives and tragedies of the band members. This book and its sister title ......
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie ""Bird"" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then died when only 34 years old. His friend Robert Reisner observed, ""Parker, in the brief span of his life, crowded more living into it than any other human being."" Like Louis Armstrong, ......
The word "jazz" did not begin to appear in print until around 1915 and was grudgingly admitted into polite society. This book explores the vocabulary which has grown up around it. Entries include words unique to jazz and ordinary words with specific jazz meanings.
''This book is pure gold for the singer and singing therapist of today'' - Mary Thienes Schunemann, founder, naturally you can sing! productions. ''The life work of this Swedish artist is not so much the introduction of a new 'method' ...rather, this is the first adequate description in all music history of the western art of singing in terms of ......
This collection of poems rooted in the wild and beautiful lands that lie between England and Scotland describes a traditionally lawless area whose inhabitants owed allegiance first to kin and laird and then to the authorities in London or Edinburgh. Recording a violent, clannish world of fierce hatreds and passionate loyalties, the ballads tell ......
The indispensable consumer's guide to the music of Leonard Cohen A track by track analysis of every song recorded on officially released albums by Cohen, from his 1968 Songs Of Leonard Cohen to his most recent studio and live sets from the 21st Century
Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by ......
Brought by Appalachian migrants in search of jobs, bluegrass soon established itself as the cornerstone of a thriving music scene in southwestern Ohio. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison edit a collection of eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass musicians, radio broadcasters, recording ......
