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Rockin' in the Desert
In the early days of recording in Arizona. Phoenix was isolated from National record distribution. Local musicians that wanted to record, had to drive out to the West Coast. In the mid-1950's this all changed when Floyd Ramsey set up Audio-Recorders of ...more |
Bob Morritt |
7 Oct 2012 |
$499.00 |
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Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult
Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)-painter, composer, builder of musical instruments, and first-hour member of the Italian Futurist movement-was a crucial figure in the evolution of twentieth-century aesthetics. As creator of the first systematic poetics of noise ...more |
Luciano Chessa |
7 Oct 2012 |
$34.95 |
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Pepper Adams' Joy Road: An Annotated Discography
Pepper Adams' Joy Road not only compiles the sessions and gigs of the greatest baritone saxophone soloist in history, but it's a fascinating overview of Adams' life and times through colorful interviews with Adams and other musicians. ...more |
Gary Carner |
3 Oct 2012 |
$74.99 |
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Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar
Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed |
Peter Benjaminson |
28 Sep 2012 |
$21.99 |
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Earl Hooker, Blues Master
The life and early death of a South Side guitar genius, the greatest unheralded Chicago blues-maker Jimi Hendrix called Earl Hooker "the master of the wah-wah pedal." Buddy Guy slept with one of Hooker's slides beneath his pillow hoping to tap some of |
Sebastian Danchin |
28 Sep 2012 |
$125.00 |
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Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man Revised and Updated
(Book). Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man is a look at the superstar's entire career, including his troubled youth as a gang member; the controversy surrounding his first hit, "Captain Jack"; his legal problems; his storied marriage ...more |
Hank Bordowitz |
22 Sep 2012 |
$19.99 |
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Prince: Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution
(Book). Prince has cut a singular path through the heart of popular music for more than 30 years. After making some of the most inventive albums of the '80s including 1999 , Purple Rain and Sign of the Times he turned his attention to redefining his role ...more |
Jason Draper |
21 Sep 2012 |
$19.99 |
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Artie Shaw, King of the Clarinet: His Life and Times
For his centennial, an indispensable biography of Artie Shaw, the legendary big-band leader, virtuoso clarinetist, and renegade in music and romance. ...more |
Tom Nolan |
21 Sep 2012 |
$29.95 |
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Opening Windows: Confessions of a Canadian Vocal Coach
Stuart Hamilton, a well-known Canadian musician, has been in the forefront of music in Canada for more than 60 years. Along the way, he has encountered, as a vocal coach and accompanist, most of the great Canadian singers of the last half of the 20th century ...more |
Stuart Hamilton |
20 Sep 2012 |
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True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera
Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri. ...more |
Lotfi Mansouri &
Mark Hernandez |
20 Sep 2012 |
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Here and Now! The Autobiography of Pat Martino
(Book). By age 16, Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue. By age 18, Martino moved to Harlem, where he quickly earned a reputation as a hard-bopping six-stringer with formidable chops through a series ...more |
Pat Martino |
16 Sep 2012 |
$24.99 |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man
(Book). Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded "Desafinado," which stayed for 70 weeks on the Billboard charts. Since then, no one can deny bossa nova's ...more |
Helena Jobim |
16 Sep 2012 |
$27.99 |
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Don Andres and Paquita: The Life of Segovia in Montevideo
(Amadeus). This heartbreaking tale uncovers a mystery in the life of one of the most important personalities of the twentieth century, guitarist Andres Segovia (1893-1987). He married the widowed Paquita Madriguera (1900-1965), famous child prodigy pianist ...more |
Alfredo Escande |
16 Sep 2012 |
$34.99 |
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KISS FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Hottest Band in the Land
(FAQ). Since 1973, KISS has recorded over 20 studio albums; been recognized as an innovator in rock presentations; witnessed a firestorm of rumors and controversies; remained a thorn in critics' sides; and continues to surprise its massive fan-following, ...more |
Dale Sherman |
16 Sep 2012 |
$22.99 |
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Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro
(Amadeus). Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as well ...more |
Leonard Slatkin |
16 Sep 2012 |
$27.99 |
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Adventures of a Waterboy
(Book). "I was six or seven when I noticed the music in my head. It was there in the classroom, on the football pitch, at the dinner table, when I went to sleep and when I woke up. And it's continued ever since." As a teenager in Scotland, Mike Scott played ...more |
Mike Scott |
16 Sep 2012 |
$19.95 |
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Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791
A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars. "I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two |
Christoph Wolff |
6 Sep 2012 |
$27.95 |
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Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll
# 4 on the Christian Science Monitor's List of "Smart Nonfiction Titles We Think You'll Enjoy This Summer"
Featured in Summer Reading Specials from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and CMT
A vibrant biography of one of the |
Marc Dolan |
6 Sep 2012 |
$29.95 |
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Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
The groundbreaking biography, available for the centennial of Woody Guthrie's birth in July 2012. A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access |
Ed Cray |
6 Sep 2012 |
$17.95 |
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Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix
Though many books have chronicled Jimi Hendrix's brilliant but tragically brief musical career, this is the first to use his own words to paint a detailed portrait of the man behind the guitar. With selections carefully chosen by one of the world's leading |
Steven Roby |
27 Aug 2012 |
$19.99 |
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