Blues

Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel,and the musicians who bring the music to life. Hentoff has not only loved music all his life, he …

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blue artists.  The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on …

The leading textbook in jazz improvisation, Creative Jazz Improvisation, Fifth Edition represents a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom, …

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes …

The guitarists' guitarist and the songwriters' songwriter, the legendary Bert Jansch has influenced diverse stars. Born in Edinburgh in 1943, Jansch became an inspirational and …

James P. Johnson (1894–1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than scholars and serious fans know of his life and …

(Blues Play-Along). For use with all C, B-flat, E-flat, and Bass Clef instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along Series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. …

The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the …

Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls, and a heart of gold. I Was There the Night He Died is a hilarious, moving, insightful, and timely piece of modern …

Erja Lyytinen - Blueskuningatar on 2000-luvun menestyneimmän suomalaisen blueskitaristin elämäntarina: se on tinkimättömän lujatahtoisen, lahjakkaan ja ahkeran naisen tilinteko …