The Jazz And Blues Lover's Guide To The U.s.

The Jazz And Blues Lover's Guide To The U.s.
Author: Christiane Bird
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1994-04-20
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This completely updated guide tells readers where to find everything from the current music scene to major jazz/blues landmarks in 26 American cities and the Mississippi Delta. Includes city-by-city listings for clubs, events, radio stations, anecdotes from club owners and performers, and jazz/blues history. Photos.

Jazz & Blues Musicians of South Carolina

Jazz & Blues Musicians of South Carolina
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781570037436

Through detailed interviews with 19 South Carolina musicians, jazz historian and radio host Benjamin Franklin presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State.

All Music Guide to the Blues

All Music Guide to the Blues
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879307363

Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.

Blues Traveling

Blues Traveling
Author: Steve Cheseborough
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1604733284

At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music. Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, Jimmie Rodgers, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, Little Milton, Elvis Presley, Bobby Rush, Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnside-the list of great artists with Mississippi connections goes on and on. A trip through Mississippi blues sites is a pilgrimage every music lover ought to make at least once in a lifetime, to see the juke joints and churches, to visit the birthplaces and graves of blues greats, to walk down the dusty roads and over the levee, to eat some barbecue and greens, to sit on the bank of the Mississippi River, and to hear some down-home blues music. Blues Traveling is the first and only guidebook to Mississippi's musical places and blues history. With photographs, maps, easy-to-follow directions, and an informative, entertaining text, this book will lead you in and out of Clarksdale, Greenwood, Helena (Arkansas), Rolling Fork, Jackson, Natchez, Bentonia, Rosedale, Itta Bena, and dozens of other locales that generations of blues musicians have lived in, traveled through, and sung about. Stories, legends, and lyrics are woven into the text so that each backroad and barroom comes alive. Touring Mississippi with Blues Traveling is like having a knowledgeable and entertaining guide at your side. Even people with no immediate plans to visit Mississippi will enjoy reading the book for its photos, descriptions, and lore that will broaden their understanding and enhance their appreciation of the blues. Steve Cheseborough is an independent scholar and blues musician. His work has been published in Living Blues, Blues Access, Mississippi, and the Southern Register .

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index

Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index
Author: Edward M. Komara
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415927017

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Encyclopedia of the Blues: A-J, index

Encyclopedia of the Blues: A-J, index
Author: Edward M. Komara
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415927000

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Music USA

Music USA
Author: Richie Unterberger
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781858284217

The ideal handbook for every rock-n-roll pilgrim, Music USA tours the musical heritage of America, from New York to Seattle, stopping at all the shrines of sound in between. Coverage includes background on the development of local music styles, with details on clubs and venues, radio stations and record stores nationwide.

Jazz Books in the 1990s

Jazz Books in the 1990s
Author: Janice Leslie Hochstat Greenberg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-03-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810869861

This annotated bibliography contains over 700 entries covering adult non-fiction books on jazz published from 1990 through 1999. Entries are organized by category, including biographies, history, individual instruments, essays and criticism, musicology, regional studies, discographies, and reference works. Three indexes—by title, author, and subject—are included.

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
Author: Will Friedwald
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0375421491

An extensive biographical and critical survey of more than 300 jazz and popular singers is comprised of provocative, opinionated essays that incorporate the views of peers, fans and critics while assessing key movements and genres.