2,801円 Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, ...

9,285円 Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States. His most popular song, "This Land is Your Land" has become the country's unofficial national anthem, known to every school child since the 1960s. His influence exceeded the real...

1,143円 « Définitivement CHARLOTS » de Jean Sarrus, l’inoxydable, est un livre jubilatoire où le facétieux se dispute à l’exceptionnel. Jean Sarrus est un fou ! Mais un fou joyeux pas dangereux ! C’est un compagnon du sourire pour des millions de personnes et il s...

4,637円 With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the JB’s. ...

4,643円 A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its or...

4,637円 Steve Lacy: Conversations is a collection of thirty-four interviews with the innovative saxophonist and jazz composer. Lacy (1934–2004), a pioneer in making the soprano saxophone a contemporary jazz instrument, was a prolific performer and composer, with hundreds of recordings to his name. This v...

2,652円 The strengths of Bidini’s two best-loved books, On a Cold Road and Tropic of Hockey, music and travel to unlikely places, come together in this account of his search for rock ‘n’ roll. When it looks as if the Rheostatics are breaking up after more than twenty years together, Dave Bidini is left f...

3,310円 Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1943, learning musi...

3,581円 The rock-and-roll memoir of one of the world's greatest guitarists Yngwie Malmsteen's revolutionary guitar styleーcombining elements of classical music with the speed and volume of heavy metalーmade him a staple of the 80s rock scene. Decades later, he's still a legend among guitarists, having so...

2,515円 Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists Association The things that I have, I’ll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jonesーor as the world better knows him, Papa Jo Jones. P...

2,647円 Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otisーmusician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer, and tireless fighter for racial equalityーhas had a remarkable life by any measure. In this first biography of Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of...

3,315円 In 2002 - along with Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts - Kimberley Walsh won a place in the Popstars The Rivals band Girls Aloud, and her life changed forever. Ten years later, after six platinum albums, twenty top-ten singles, a Brit Award, an entry in the Guinness Book...