3 Shades of Blue - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 a ...Show more
Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
26.99 AUD
Category: Music
LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life and career of this outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary and interview material to cre ...Show more
Depeche Mode's 101 33 1/3 by Mary Valle
19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Depeche Mode's 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its "Concert for the Masses," 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of critical acclaim, declared they had arrived and asc ...Show more
Saxophone Colossus - The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy
36.99 AUD
Category: Music
**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)****Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)**The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely ac ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by Peter Doggett
39.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Crosby Stills Nash and Young bio
"A must for CSNY fans." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review The first ever biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in Amer ...Show more
The Beatles on the Road 1964-1966 by Harry Benson (Photographer)
65.00 AUD
Category: Music
Behind Beatlemania Privileged access to the Fab Four In early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London's Daily Express, who asked him to cover The Beatles' trip to Paris. It was the beginning of a career-defining relationship, which would both make Benson's name an ...Show more
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
An unexpected journey through Italy, led by the voice of a violinFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories co ...Show more
David Bowie Album by Album by Paolo Hewitt
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
"Bowie: Album by Album" examines every one of Bowie's studio albums in fine detail, placing each within the context of the time in which it was recorded and charting all the albums' subsequent influence and legacy. As well as commentary from the musicians, engineers and producers who worked on the recor ...Show more
J.S. Bach: A Life in Music by Peter Williams
34.95 AUD
Category: Music
Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even though ...Show more
The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin
19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a rock music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites. There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happened: he fell deeply in love with the music, and had to hear more, know more. So began an epic quest ...Show more
Morrissey and Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan
29.95 AUD
Category: Music
Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful - and controversial - rock biographies ever published. Having denounced the book and called for the death of its author Johnny Rogan, Morrissey later did a U-turn and cited it as evidence in the royalty-related court case brought by ...Show more