Music: styles and genres

The most comprehensive book ever written on how to create the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing used by masters like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, etc.

This book gives you all the basic principles underlying solid walking bass lines.

The only book that shows how the Blues Scales (Major and Minor) are used to create jazz solos.

The only complete method book on Salsa ever published.

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century Americawoven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.

Have you ever wondered how guitarists like Joe Pass, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery find such full, luscious voicings for their chord melody playing?

Huell Howser, the exuberant, hugely popular host of California Gold and other California public-television shows, was always exclaiming to the camera, "e;Louie, take a look at this!

How do you keep going when your world is falling apart?

Up From Down Under tells the remarkable untold story of how Australian music took over the world.

All great musicians have one thing in common---to a great extent they know what the harmony of a song is as they hear it.

Biography of innovative American jazz bass player and poet Henry Grimes, described by Sonny Rollins as 'a serious, intense, and fearless musician'.

Have you ever wondered how guitarists like Joe Pass, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery find such full, luscious voicings for their chord melody playing?

The only comprehensive book ever published on how to play bass in authentic Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and various South American styles.

The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution.

On the Road Not Taken is a memoir about the transformational power of music.

A complete guide to playing guitar accompaniment and chord melodies in various Brazilian styles -- Samba, Bossa Nova, Frevo, etc.

Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago.

Imagine you're the world's biggest Beatles fan and you've just snuck into John Lennon's hotel room.

Uses rhetorical and literary theory to recover the power of the blues in its cultural tradition.

The same notes can sound square or swinging, depending on how the music is phrased.

Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago.

How do you keep going when your world is falling apart?

The only comprehensive book ever published on how to play bass in authentic Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and various South American styles.

This book is designed to teach the fundamentals of bass playing to anyone, regardless of the style of music or level of the player.

Hedwig Stein was starting to make her mark as a concert pianist in Germany in the early 1930s when she fell in love with a Russian emigre pianist, Iso Elinson.

Foreword Magazine IndieFab Book of the Year's Gold for Biography 2017Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles.

Presenting a view of the 20th-century music avant-garde without resorting to highly specialized jargon, this work offers an exhaustive history and analysis of contemporary music in a social, political, and artistic context.

I Remember Me weaves an American tapestry of colorful tales, beginning with the timid musings of a young boy on the verge of becoming a man in the Jewish section of New Yorks Bronx neighborhood, and bringing us up to date with the mature insight of a man whose remarkable trajectory has sent him to the top of Hollywoods elite and sparked the careers of dozens of household-name entertainers.

This practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship---scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc.

By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "e;Lightnin'"e; Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history.

The definitive biography of musical legend Bessie Smith: “A landmark in the writing of jazz history .

Misfit Summer Camp: 20 Years on the Road with the Vans Warped Tour contains 200 explosive pages chronicling the first 2 decades of the traveling circus that is the Vans Warped Tour.

The most comprehensive book ever written on how to create the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing used by masters like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, etc.

The only book that shows how the Blues Scales (Major and Minor) are used to create jazz solos.

This practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship---scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc.

The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist.

Turn Your Radio On tells the fascinating stories behind gospel music's most unforgettable songs, including "e;Amazing Grace,"e; "e;The Battle Hymn of the Republic,"e; "e;He Touched Me,"e; "e;I'll Fly Away,"e; "e;Were You There?

"e;Their conversations range far beyond the biographical-to their feelings, motivations, musical approaches, and attitudes.

A complete guide to playing guitar accompaniment and chord melodies in various Brazilian styles -- Samba, Bossa Nova, Frevo, etc.

Kristin Clark was born loving music and has explored many genres of music in her lifetime.

This Will End in Tears is the first ever and definitive guide to melancholy music.

This book gives you all the basic principles underlying solid walking bass lines.

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published!

The only complete method book on Salsa ever published.

Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye.