Trad Dads, Dirty Boppers and Free Fusioneers

Duncan Heining

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• The 1960's was a decade of major transformation in British jazz and in British popular music in general. The British jazz scene had been, arguably, th... Lees meer

Lee Morgan

Tom Perchard

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a prodigy: recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenag... Lees meer

Bill Russell and the New Orleans Jazz Revival

Ray Smith, Mike Pointon

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• Born in 1905, Bill Russell demonstrated diverse musical interests from an early age. A contemporary of John Cage, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, his s... Lees meer

Kansas City Jazz

Con Chapman

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct stylisti... Lees meer

Soul Unsung

Kevin Le Gendre

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• The history of soul music has been defined, first and foremost, by a succession of exceptional vocalists. It is impossible to conceive of the genre wi... Lees meer

Hidden Man

John Altman

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• Everybody knows John Altman's music, but not so many people know his name. Yet he is one of the most prolific composers, conductors and arrangers in h... Lees meer

This is Hip

Peter Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, the world lost one of the greatest jazz singers in history. Murphy was the last of his kind, a hipster of the K... Lees meer

The Godfather of British Jazz

Clark Tracey

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• This is the first biography of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawing on personal diaries, Stan's many interviews over a caree... Lees meer

Rufus Wainwright

Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is famous around the world for his multi-faceted musical style, shown through both his recorded o... Lees meer

Scouse Pop

Paul Skillen

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It exami... Lees meer

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae

Michael Garnice

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Ja... Lees meer

The Northern Soul Scene

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• The northern soul scene is a dance-based music culture that originated in the English North and Midlands in the early 1970s. It still thrives today wi... Lees meer

An Unholy Row

Dave Gelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• The post-war jazz revival marked the beginning of an independent British youth culture with music as its focus. Although it always remained a minority... Lees meer

Out of the Long Dark

Alyn Shipton

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• Few British jazz musicians have been at the cutting edge of as many movements as Ian Carr. A pioneer bebop player in his youth, a colleague of Eric Bu... Lees meer

Jazz Me Blues

Chris Barber, Alyn Shipton

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he formed in 1952 and has led continuously from 1954, af... Lees meer

Mr. P.C.

Rob Palmer, R Palmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• During his thirteen year career, between 1955 and 1968, Paul Chambers was one of the leading double bass players in jazz, performing with a variety of... Lees meer

Being Prez

Dave Gelly

• Paperback | Popular Music History
• Lester Young (1909-1959) was one of the great jazz masters, whose tenor saxophone playing brought new levels of expressiveness and subtlety to the jaz... Lees meer

Vinyl Ventures

Bill Nowlin

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• Rounder Records was born in 1970, a "hobby that got out of control," a fledging record company more or less conceived while the Sixties were still in ... Lees meer

Lionel Richie

Sharon Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• For over thirty years Lionel Richie has never looked back as a performer. From fronting his group the Commodores - the premier R&B pop unit of the sev... Lees meer

The Rosary and the Microphone

Nicholas P Greco

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band's mediation... Lees meer

Mosaics

Duncan Heining

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• Graham Collier's career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who wrote extensivel... Lees meer

Formation

Brad Mehldau

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a ... Lees meer

Mosaics

Duncan Heining

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Music History
• Graham Collier's career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who wrote extensivel... Lees meer

Rufus Wainwright

Katherine Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Music History
• Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (b. 1973) is famous around the world for his multi-faceted musical style, shown through both his ... Lees meer