Blues books

Jazz artists, as defined by Carner, are those who have made their mark as jazz performers and who have led the jazz...  Read More >>

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A companion volume to ""You Just Fight for Your Life"", this discography details 251 recording sessions. A song...  Read More >>

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A Danish musician here presents the most accurate, comprehensive work on a major figure in American jazz: Lester...  Read More >>

Few musicians can boast careers as long and productive as that of jazz instrumentalist Garvin Bushell. In Jazz from...  Read More >>

(Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements of 81 super blues tunes: Cross Road Blues * Double Trouble * I'm Your Hoochie Coochie...  Read More >>

YorktownA wonderful selection of easy-to-medium piano solos, in both blues and boogie styles, including Cotton...  Read More >>

Kirk describes his life as a traveling jazz musician  Read More >>

(Yorktown). A wonderful selection of easy-to-medium piano solos, in both blues and boogie styles, including ""Cotton...  Read More >>

Jim and Andy's on 48th Street was a favourite haunt of New York musicians in the 1960s. This book gives vivid portraits...  Read More >>

""Anyone who has ever heard a Billie Holiday record knows the sound of her voice--sad, sexy, always relaxed but...  Read More >>

This study of the blues by one of Americas premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition...  Read More >>

The second volume of Schuller's comprehensive history of jazz covers the crucial era which saw the rise of big band...  Read More >>

""This comprehensive survey of jazz piano, beginning with a brief history of the instrument within the jazz tradition...  Read More >>

""The noted blues scholar Paul Oliver here examines the many different skeins of the blues form, relating them to...  Read More >>

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""William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has...  Read More >>

A strange, moving account of a young French blues fan's relationship with an old, illiterate, alcoholic bluesman,...  Read More >>

The emergence of Jack Teagarden as an important jazz stylist was a significant feature of the '20s jazz scene. He...  Read More >>

As trumpet player and singer, Louis Armstrong is the single most important figure in jazz history, and one of the...  Read More >>

A contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist...  Read More >>

This companion volume to Martin Williams' prize-winning The Jazz Tradition brings together twenty years of reviews,...  Read More >>

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This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts...  Read More >>