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.

100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own

100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own
Author: Edward Komara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-02-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0810889226

Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t among the hundreds—sometimes thousands—of books on the music you so love? In the Best Music Books series, readers finally have a quick-and-ready list of the most important works published on modern major music genres by leading experts. In 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own, Edward Komara, former Blues Archivist of the University of Mississippi, and his successor Greg Johnson select those histories, biographies, surveys, transcriptions and studies from the many hundreds of works that have been published about this vital American musical genre. Komara and Johnson provide a short description of the contents and the achievement of each title selected for their “Blues 100.” Entries include full bibliographic citations, prices of copies in print, and even descriptions of specific editions for book collectors. 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own also includes suggested blues recordings to accompany each recommended work, as well as a concluding section on key reference titles—or as Komara and Johnson phrase it: “The Books behind the Blues 100.” 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own serves as a guide for any blues fan looking for a road map through the history of—and even history of the scholarship on—the blues. Here Komara and Johnson answer the question of not only what is a “blues” book, but which ones are worth owning.

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.

Jazz

Jazz
Author: Eddie S. Meadows
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136776028

Jazz: Research and Pedagogy is the third edition of an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of jazz. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1995, the quantity and quality of books on jazz research, performance, and teaching materials have increased. Although the 1995 book was the most comprehensive annotated jazz bibliography published to that date, several books on research, performance, and teaching materials were omitted. In addition, given the proliferation of new books in all jazz areas since 1995, the need for a new, comprehensive, and annotated reference book on jazz is apparent. Multiply indexed, this book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the last decade.

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.

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 .

Blues

Blues
Author: Dick Weissman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2005
Genre: Blues (Music)
ISBN: 9780415970686

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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.