Nigel Kennedy changed the course of classical music in the late 1980s with his interpretation of Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’. He was revolutionary: in his performance and presentation; in his technique and his open-minded attitude. A natural boundary-pusher and musical adventurer, Nigel Kennedy blew minds
The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz's compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued ......
In Thriving on a Riff, Presbyterian minister and jazz pianist Bill Carter traces the meaning and spirituality of jazz, inviting us to meet a God who not only embraces syncopation but blesses the swing.
What does jazz have to do with human spirituality?
African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
"Black Fundamentalists illuminates how early twentieth century fundamentalism manifested in unique ways across the color line, illustrating how racial context, racial identity, and concerns for racial justice can shape religious expression even within theologically conservative traditions"--
The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.
As an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944-2016) had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Yet, his own star has often been overshadowed by his world-famous father. The first book ever published about Frank Sinatra, Jr., Let Me Be Frank: The ......
In On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer, author Michael Stephans has created a rich, multifaceted paean to jazz icon Bob Brookmeyer, the much-beloved musical genius who passed away in 2011, four days short of his 82nd birthday. On the Way to the Sky is a hybrid book in that it's part memoir, part biography, with over a dozen essays by ......
Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with-Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others-but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly due to his inability to work with bandleaders. Often drinking to excess, alcohol ......
Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with-Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others-but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly due to his inability to work with bandleaders. Often drinking to excess, alcohol ......
In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington's music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington's work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which it was created-historical, ......
