Books on Music

POPULAR - JAZZ - ROCK - FOLK

(Clothbound)

RACE MUSIC: Black Cultures from Beebop to Hip Hop-Ramsey Styles, forms, genres, social relevance of African American music.

29.00

THE DRIFTERS-Millar (Story of the rhythm/blues vocal group)

14.00

 

CULTRANE: The Story of a Sound - Ratliff (A magor work about the great saxophonist and about the state of jazz).

 

22.00

TEXAS MUSIC-Koster (Lively, informative & fully dated definitive history of music of the Lone Star State from the 1920's to present.

28.00

BEHIND SAD EYES:The Story of George Harrison(Beetles)-Shapiro

23.00

JUST WALKIN' IN THE RAIN-Warner (True story of the convict quintet, "The Prisonaires" & their influence thru rhythm & blues.

24.00

SOUL PICNIC:The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro-Kort

25.00

OTIS: The Otis Reading Story-Freeman Full scale biography and revealing portrait of the singer.

23.00

(Paperbound)

ROCK LIVES: Profiles & Interviews-White (Biography & musical careers of 59 famous rock stars spanning _ cent. of Rock& Roll).

16.50

B.B.KING-Sawyer (Life, musical style & technical innovations of the legendary guitarist and singer).

9.50

SAMMY: An Autobiography (Sammy Davis Jr. in his own words).

15.00

GENE KRUPA: His Life & Times-Crowther(A great jazz drummer)

10.00

RAGTIME: A Musical & Cultural History-Berlin (All aspects explored:Ragtime song, band, dance & Ragtime culture).

10.95

THE ART OF JAZZ: Ragtime to Beebop-Williams
Essays & anthology on Jazz & its great performers.

11.50

JEWS WHO ROCK-Oseary

12.00

HALF WAY TO PARADISE-Tony Orlando

24.00

JAZZ: NY Times Essential Library-Ratliff (A Critic's Guide to the 100 most importtant recordings and their artists. Great resource).

15.00

REBEL HEART:Bebe Buell's no-holds barred account of her life.

14.00

ENGLAND'S DREAMING: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond-Savage(Definitive history of the English Punk movement).

19.00

LOUIS: The Louis Armstrong Story, 1900-1971 - Jones/Chilton

15.00

THE COUNTRY BLUES-Charters

12.50

THE STORY OF JAZZ-Stearns "One of the great books on jazz": N.Y. Times book review.

14.50

AMERICAN BALLADS & FOLK SONGS-Lomax(Treas. of music, lyrics of over 200 folk songs & ballads, W/ notes on their origins

18.00

ROCK & POP DAY BY DAY: Biographies, Birthdays, Hits & Facts on Rock Stars---over 4000 entries-Laufenberg

14.50

THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA-Cummings
Afro-American artists from Philadelphia.

8.95

HEAR ME TALKING TO YA-Shapiro/Hentoff
The story of Jazz as told by the people who made it.

15.00

WOODY GUTHRIE SONGS(Lyrics/music for all songs W/chords)

8.95

ROY BUCHANAN: American Axe-Carson (Touching story of the great American country style rock 'n' roll guitarist).

17.00

SOUL MUSIC A to Z-Gregory (Fact filled directory with resumes of 600 names of famous singers, performers, musicians, producers).

17.50