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Syd Kitchen - Scars That Shine (Paperback): Donve Lee Syd Kitchen - Scars That Shine (Paperback)
Donve Lee
R260 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R28 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Skollie, saint, scholar, hippest of hippies, imperfect musician with a perfect imagination, Syd Kitchen was, like all great artists, born to enrich his art and not himself.

Plagued by drugs, alcohol and depression, too much of an outlaw to be embraced by record companies, he frequently sold his furniture to cover production costs of his albums, seduced fans at concerts and music festivals worldwide with his dazzling ‘Afro-Saxon’ mix of folk, jazz, blues and rock interspersed with marvellously irreverent banter, and finally became the subject of several compelling documentaries, one of which - Fool in a Bubble - premiered in New York in 2010.

Musical Echoes - South African Women Thinking In Jazz (Paperback): Carol Ann Muller, Sathima Bea Benjamin Musical Echoes - South African Women Thinking In Jazz (Paperback)
Carol Ann Muller, Sathima Bea Benjamin
R789 R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Save R60 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin.

Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for Europe, where they met and recorded with Duke Ellington. Benjamin and Ibrahim spent their lives on the move between Europe, the United States, and South Africa until 1977, when they left Africa for New York City and declared their support for the African National Congress.

In New York, Benjamin established her own record company and recorded her music independently from Ibrahim. Musical Echoes reflects twenty years of archival research and conversation between this extraordinary jazz singer and the South African musicologist Carol Ann Muller.

The narrative of Benjamin's life and times is interspersed with Muller's reflections on the vocalist's story and its implications for jazz history.

Jazz Survivor - The Story of Louis Bannet, Horn Player of Auschwitz (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Ken Shuldman Jazz Survivor - The Story of Louis Bannet, Horn Player of Auschwitz (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Ken Shuldman
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Jazz Survivor' tells the story of Louis Bannet, the Dutch Louis Armstrong. Louis Bannet was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau during the was, but his skill as a musician saved his life: he became the 'star' of the Auschwitz Orchestra, as well as the personal bandleader for Dr Josef Mengele and the founder of the Gypsy Camp Orchestra.

Indianapolis Jazz - The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue (Paperback): David Leander Williams Indianapolis Jazz - The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue (Paperback)
David Leander Williams; Foreword by David N. Baker
R602 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Get into the music with David Leander Williams as he charts the rise and fall of Indiana Avenue, the Majestic Entertainment Boulevard of Indianapolis, which produced some of the nation's most influential jazz artists. The performance venues that once lined the vibrant thoroughfare were an important stop on the Chitlin' Circuit and provided platforms for greats like Freddie Hubbard and Jimmy Coe. Through this biography of the bustling street, meet scores of the other musicians who came to prominence in the avenue's heyday, including trombonist J.J. Johnson and guitarist Wes Montgomery, as well as songwriters like Noble Sissle and Leroy Carr.

Washington, Dc, Jazz (Paperback): Regennia N Williams, Sandra Butler-truesdale Washington, Dc, Jazz (Paperback)
Regennia N Williams, Sandra Butler-truesdale; Foreword by Willard Jenkins
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Miles - The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991 (Hardcover): George Cole The Last Miles - The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991 (Hardcover)
George Cole
R1,704 Discovery Miles 17 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Miles Davis was one of the musical giants of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned more than five decades, Miles transformed the face of jazz four or five times and his music resonates far beyond the bounds of his genre. Miles made the most famous album in the history of jazz, Kind of Blue, formed one of the greatest jazz quintets in the 1960s and fused jazz with rock. Including unique interviews with dozens of Miles' closest colleagues, many of whom have never before been interviewed about their time with him, The Last Miles concentrates on the final period of Miles' life, after he had emerged from a five-year lay-off from the world of music. Right up until the end of his life, he was still searching, still exploring and still refusing to play it safe. The focus is on the music Miles recorded and played, and how it evolved in the eyes of the musicians he played with. Those interviewed include, George Duke, Teo Macero, Tommy LiPuma, Marcus Miller, Darryl Jones and Easy Mo Bee. There are also interviews with musicians who played with Miles before the 1980s, including Dave Liebman, Pete Cosey, Michael Henderson and Mike Zwerin, who give their own assessment of the music Miles played during the final period of his life. Cheryl Davies, Miles' only daughter, is also interviewed. The Last Miles is full of fascinating new facts and stories about Miles. For the first time, every member of the group of young musicians from Chicago who helped bring Miles back into the music scene gives their story. Music journalist George Cole also reveals for the first time the full story behind a lost Miles Davis album recorded in 1985, tells you about a song Miles co-wrote for Mick Jagger, how he worked with Prince, and discovers new and unreleased music that Miles recorded. If you've ever wanted to know how Miles recruited his band members, what it was like working with Miles in the studio or to play with him on-stage, The Last Miles has the answers. There is at least one chapter devoted to each album that Miles recorded during this period. Full track-by-track descriptions contain many new and interesting tales behind the songs including how Sting came to record on one of Miles' tracks, why Prince dropped a song slated to appear on the Tutu album, how Gil Evans helped Miles compose many of the tunes on the album Star People, what Splatch means and who Ursula was.

The Dolly Sisters - Icons of the Jazz Age (Paperback): Gary Chapman The Dolly Sisters - Icons of the Jazz Age (Paperback)
Gary Chapman
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Notes from a Jazz Life (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Digby Fairweather Notes from a Jazz Life (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Digby Fairweather
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This second updated edition of Notes from a Jazz Life includes Digby Fairweather's career since the year 2000 as a jazz cornetist, band leader, educator and broadcaster, working with George Melly and leading his band the Half-Dozen. The book has much to offer to people who are even marginally interested in jazz in all its wide variety of forms as well as providing insights for regular jazz readers. The author provides revealing reflections on the personal life and career of a musician and, with a wealth of warm, hilarious anecdotes, he writes honestly about all the challenges, frustrations and rich rewards of being part of the jazz world.

Edinburgh Jazz Enlightenment-The Story of Edinburgh Traditional Jazz (Paperback): Graham Blamire Edinburgh Jazz Enlightenment-The Story of Edinburgh Traditional Jazz (Paperback)
Graham Blamire
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is primarily concerned with the story of traditional jazz in Edinburgh since the mid-nineteen forties; that is, traditional jazz played in and around Edinburgh by local jazz musicians and bands. It is not much concerned with jazz played in and around Edinburgh by visiting bands, professional or otherwise, except in passing and when such bands have had a marked effect on local jazz, this being especially the case in the early years. Similarly, the significant number of local jazz musicians who went on to become distinguished or even famous professional players at a UK or international level, will primarily be discussed in respect of their careers when playing in Edinburgh in local bands, rather than their contributions in a wider and better known context. In some cases, the wider reputations will be covered more than adequately in more resounding publications than this.

Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin (Hardcover, New): Richard Palmer Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin (Hardcover, New)
Richard Palmer
R5,937 Discovery Miles 59 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Such Deliberate Disguises: The Art of Philip Larkin" argues that a true understanding of Philip Larkin as man and poet lies beyond his enduring public appeal and the variety of criticism that has recently been applied to his work. Richard Palmer suggests that the ostensible simplicity of Larkin's writing, which continues to attract so many readers to him, is deceptive, masking as it does one of the richest and most resonant of oeuvres in twentieth-century poetry. Penetrating the many masks of Larkin, the book sheds new and considerable light on the hitherto largely ignored spiritual significance of his work. Based upon close and scrupulous reading of the poems themselves, it draws upon insights gained from the history of art and the study of religion and myth as much as literary criticism and personal biography.It also brings long-overdue attention to what is seen to be perhaps the chief love, and operative aesthetic force, of Larkin's life: jazz. "Such Deliberate Disguises" is thus a major contribution, not just to Larkin studies, but to the wider cultural history of our times.

Red Groove (Paperback): Chris Searle Red Groove (Paperback)
Chris Searle
R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
What Do They Want? - A Jazz Autobiography (Hardcover): Caroline Richmond What Do They Want? - A Jazz Autobiography (Hardcover)
Caroline Richmond; Sammy Price
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The jazz pianist discusses his life and career, from his birth in Texas, to his rise to international fame and his involvement in politics and business.

BugHouse From the Top - The Complete BugHouse (Hardcover): Steve Lafler BugHouse From the Top - The Complete BugHouse (Hardcover)
Steve Lafler
R971 R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Save R128 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bass Lines - A Life in Jazz (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Coleridge Goode, Roger Cotterrell Bass Lines - A Life in Jazz (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Coleridge Goode, Roger Cotterrell
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition - Improvising Music in a Complex Age (Hardcover, 2nd edition): David Borgo Sync or Swarm, Revised Edition - Improvising Music in a Complex Age (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
David Borgo
R3,386 Discovery Miles 33 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The revised edition of Sync or Swarm promotes an ecological view of musicking, moving us from a subject-centered to a system-centered view of improvisation. It explores cycles of organismic self-regulation, cycles of sensorimotor coupling between organism and environment, and cycles of intersubjective interaction mediated via socio-technological networks. Chapters funnel outward, from the solo improviser (Evan Parker), to nonlinear group dynamics (Sam Rivers trio), to networks that comprise improvisational communities, to pedagogical dynamics that affect how individuals learn, completing the hermeneutic circle. Winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam prize in its first edition, the revised edition features new sections that highlight electro-acoustic and transcultural improvisation, and concomitant issues of human-machine interaction and postcolonial studies.

Jazz Poetry - From the 1920s to the Present (Hardcover, New): Sascha Feinstein Jazz Poetry - From the 1920s to the Present (Hardcover, New)
Sascha Feinstein
R2,975 Discovery Miles 29 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Embracing the entire history of jazz poetry, the work defines this inspired literary genre as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music. It discusses the major figures and various movements from the racist poems of the 1920s to contemporary times when the tone of jazz poetry experienced a dramatic change from elegy to celebration. The jazz music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane transliterated into poetry by the likes of Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown is but a part of this vital work. This unusual volume will be of interest to scholars and students of literature, music, American and African Studies, and popular culture as well as anyone who enjoys jazz and poetry.

Emphasis is given to a call and response between white and African American writers. The earliest jazz poems by white writers from the 1920s, for example, reflected the general anxieties evoked by jazz, particularly regarding race and sexuality, and jazz did not fully become embraced in American verse until Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown published their first books in 1926 and 1932, respectively. By the 1950s, jazz poetry had become a fad, featuring jazz and poetry in performance, and this book spends considerable time addressing the energetic but often wildly unsuccessful work by dominantly white, West coast writers who turned to Charlie Parker as their hero. African American poets from the 1960s, however, focused more on John Coltrane and interpreted his music as a representation of the Black Civil Rights movement. Jazz poetry from the 1970s to the present has had less to do with this call and response between races, and the final two chapters discuss contemporary jazz poetry in terms of its dramatic change in tone from elegy to joy.

History of Pittsburgh Jazz - Swinging in the Steel City (Hardcover): Richard Gazarik, Karen Anthony Cole History of Pittsburgh Jazz - Swinging in the Steel City (Hardcover)
Richard Gazarik, Karen Anthony Cole
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Real Ambassadors - Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation (Hardcover): Keith Hatschek, Yolande... The Real Ambassadors - Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation (Hardcover)
Keith Hatschek, Yolande Bavan
R3,197 Discovery Miles 31 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived by the Brubecks in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage for its 1962 premiere tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement. A variety of colorful characters, from Broadway impresarios to gang-connected managers, surface in the compelling storyline. During the Cold War, the US State Department enlisted some of America's greatest musicians to serve as jazz ambassadors, touring the world to trumpet a so-called "free society." Honored as celebrities abroad, the jazz ambassadors, who were overwhelmingly African Americans, returned home to racial discrimination and deferred dreams. The Brubecks used this double standard as the central message for the musical, deploying humor and pathos to share perspectives on American values. On September 23, 1962, The Real Ambassadors's stunning debut moved a packed arena at the Monterey Jazz Festival to laughter, joy, and tears. Although critics unanimously hailed the performance, it sadly became a footnote in cast members' bios. The enormous cost of reassembling the star-studded cast made the creation impossible to stage and tour. However, The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation caps this jazz story by detailing how the show was triumphantly revived in 2014 by Jazz at Lincoln Center. This reaffirmed the musical's place as an integral part of America's jazz history and served as an important reminder of how artists' voices are a powerful force for social change.

Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto (Hardcover): Bryan Daniel McCann Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto (Hardcover)
Bryan Daniel McCann
R2,332 Discovery Miles 23 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties to telephone hold music. So how did Getz/Gilberto become the Brazilian album known around the world, crossing generational and demographic divides? Bryan McCann traces the history and making of Getz/Gilberto as a musical collaboration between leading figure of bossa nova Joao Gilberto and Philadelphia-born and New York-raised cool jazz artist Stan Getz. McCann also reveals the contributions of the less-understood participants (Astrud Gilberto's unrehearsed, English-language vocals; Creed Taylor's immaculate production; Olga Albizu's arresting, abstract-expressionist cover art) to show how a perfect balance of talents led to not just a great album, but a global pop sensation. And he explains how Getz/Gilberto emerged from the context of Bossa Nova Rio de Janeiro, the brief period when the subtle harmonies and aching melodies of bossa nova seemed to distill the spirit of a modernizing, sensuous city. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.

Jazz in China - From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression (Hardcover): Eugene Marlow Jazz in China - From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression (Hardcover)
Eugene Marlow
R3,208 Discovery Miles 32 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

""Is there jazz in China?"" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces China's introduction to jazz in the early 1920s, its interruption by Chinese leadership under Mao in 1949, and its rejuvenation in the early 1980s with the start of China's opening to the world under Premier Deng Xiaoping. Covering a span of almost one hundred years, Marlow focuses on a variety of subjects--the musicians who initiated jazz performances in China, the means by which jazz was incorporated into Chinese culture, and the musicians and venues that now present jazz performances. Featuring unique, face-to-face interviews with leading indigenous jazz musicians in Beijing and Shanghai, plus interviews with club owners, promoters, expatriates, and even diplomats, Marlow marks the evolution of jazz in China as it parallels China's social, economic, and political evolution through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Also featured is an interview with one of the extant members of the Jimmy King Big Band of the 1940s, one of the first major all-Chinese jazz big bands in Shanghai. Ultimately, Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression is a cultural history that reveals the inexorable evolution of a democratic form of music in a Communist state.

Wax Poetics Journal Issue 68 (Hardcover) - Digable Planets b/w P.M. Dawn (Hardcover): Various Authors Wax Poetics Journal Issue 68 (Hardcover) - Digable Planets b/w P.M. Dawn (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Erroll The Essential LPs (Hardcover): James M. Doran Erroll The Essential LPs (Hardcover)
James M. Doran
R1,728 R1,425 Discovery Miles 14 250 Save R303 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jazz Dialogues (Hardcover): Jon Gordon Jazz Dialogues (Hardcover)
Jon Gordon
R739 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life in E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods (Hardcover): Phil Woods Life in E Flat - The Autobiography of Phil Woods (Hardcover)
Phil Woods; As told to Ted Panken; Foreword by Bill Charlap
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Musical Heritage - From Yankee Doodle to Carnegie Hall, Broadway, and the Hollywood Sound Stage (Hardcover): Mark Evans Our Musical Heritage - From Yankee Doodle to Carnegie Hall, Broadway, and the Hollywood Sound Stage (Hardcover)
Mark Evans
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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