Results for: books tagged ‘Jazz’
All What Jazz: Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin: Philip Larkin
The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will ... More
Menuhin: Humphrey Burton
This is the first full length, cradle-to-grave study of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the best known and best loved of the twentieth century's classical musicians. Menuhin was born in New ... More
Coltrane: Ben Ratliff
John Coltrane, who died aged forty in 1967, is one of half a dozen truly fundamental contributors to the history of jazz. No one - not Armstrong or Ellington, nor ... More
The McJazz Manuscripts: Sandy Brown
When he died in 1975, Sandy Brown was working on an autobiography in which he had set out to describe, with the incisiveness and idiosyncratic wit which was already familiar ... More
Hallelujah Junction: John Adams
'Adams is that rare thing, a living classical composer who cuts a big figure outside the small world of contemporary music.' Daily Telegraph More
Revolt into Style: George Melly
George Melly's first-hand account of the turbulent era when everything changed - be it music, fashion, film, art or literature. Includes more than a cameo from The Beatles. More
It Still Moves: Amanda Petrusich
Wonderfully engaging and insightful, this is a glorious personal journey through the landscape of American roots music in all its forms. More
Four Last Things: William Palmer
Four Last Things is a collection of short stories, a brilliant collection of short stories. There is nothing of the occasional here, nothing of the secondary, these short fictions rank ... More
The Blue Moment: Richard Williams
There have been many books about Miles Davis, one of the twentieth century’s most protean musical figures, but The Blue Moment is unlike any other work on the subject. More