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- De: Daniel De Visé
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 17 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 58
Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age 10, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker and encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Sonny Garcia en 01-02-24
De: Daniel De Visé
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- De: Ed Ward
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Author's blindspots mar this book
- De Mark Clark en 03-28-17
De: Ed Ward
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So Many Roads
- The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
- De: David Browne
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
No longer dismissed as relics of the hippie era, a new generation has lionized the Dead for creating a culture that paved the way for social networking, free music swapping, and the uncompromising anticorporate attitude of indie rock. Now, fifty years after the band first began changing rock 'n' roll both sonically and psychically, So Many Roads paints the most vivid portrait yet of the Grateful Dead, one of the most enduring institutions in American music and culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great first book on the Dead
- De robert en 10-30-15
De: David Browne
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Fire and Rain
- The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970
- De: David Browne
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 487
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 422
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 421
January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter who's just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives---and the world around them---will change irrevocably.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating information, easy to listen
- De NCKitkat en 07-28-11
De: David Browne
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The Never-Ending Present
- The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
- De: Michael Barclay
- Narrado por: George Stroumboulopoulos
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
From our talent-rich neighbor to the north comes this biography of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands, The Tragically Hip, which announced a year-long tour after sharing the news of lead singer Gord Downie’s inoperable cancer. Now available to US listeners, The Never-Ending Present details what led up to the memorable night when music fans all over the world watched Downie’s heroic final performance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hometown Heroes
- De Tommy Garou en 12-13-18
De: Michael Barclay
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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound
- The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
- De: Mick Brown
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Phil Spector, born in the Bronx in 1940, grew up an outsider despised by his peers. But he formed a band, and had a number-one hit with "To Know Him Is to Love Him". He quickly became the top producer of early rock and roll and the originator of such girl groups as the Ronettes. Hit followed hit, and for all of them he used a new recording style called the "wall of sound". But the reign of the boy-man who owned pop music was doomed, and Spector spiraled into paranoid isolation and peculiar behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Descent Into Madness
- De Chris en 06-11-12
De: Mick Brown
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Paul McCartney
- A Life
- De: Peter Ames Carlin
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 13 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 136
The best-selling author of the definitive biography of former Beach Boy Brian Wilson offers new insight into the life and music of Paul McCartney, one of the world's most popular and influential musicians. Informed by new, exclusive interviews with friends, bandmates, and collaborators, the book describes McCartney's many triumphs as well as his failures, from the Beatles era through his decade with Wings and his subsequent solo career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great...But
- De Diego en 05-02-10
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Outlaw
- Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
- De: Michael Streissguth
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever. Streissguth's new book brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. Based on extensive research and probing interviews with key players, what emerges is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times and the definitive story of how they changed music in Nashville and everywhere.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Revealing little-known Details does Captivate!
- De Cody Meyer en 11-20-17
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John Lennon
- The Life
- De: Philip Norman
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Philip Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the definitive portrait of John Lennon. This biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really Bad Abridgement Job (slash job)
- De Let's Be Reasonable en 12-04-08
De: Philip Norman
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The Wrecking Crew
- The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
- De: Kent Hartman
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 882
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 805
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 807
If you were a fan of popular music in the 1960s and early '70s, you were a fan of the Wrecking Crew - whether you knew it or not. On hit record after hit record by everyone from the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees to the Grass Roots, the 5th Dimension, Sonny & Cher, and Simon & Garfunkel, this collection of West Coast studio musicians from diverse backgrounds established themselves as the driving sound of pop music - sometimes over the objection of actual band members....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Left Guessing
- De Patrick King en 04-29-14
De: Kent Hartman
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Uncommon People
- The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
- De: David Hepworth
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INSIGHTFULL!
- De CLAUDIA R KENNEDY en 02-18-18
De: David Hepworth
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Small Town Talk
- Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
- De: Barney Hoskyns
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country". They headed for Woodstock - not to the site of the infamous music festival of 1969 but to the Catskills, to Bearsville, to Woodstock proper. Counterculture revolutionaries like Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, and Paul Butterfield got "back to the land", turning the once sleepy hollow into a funky Shangri-La.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Captured the era - too many mistakes
- De Frank Canino en 04-17-16
De: Barney Hoskyns
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Never a Dull Moment
- 1971 - the Year That Rock Exploded
- De: David Hepworth
- Narrado por: David Hepworth
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 197
On New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court in London, effectively ending The Beatles. You might say this was the last day of the pop era. The following day, which was a Friday, was 1971. You might say this was the first day of the rock era. And within the remaining 364 days of this monumental year, the world would hear Don McLean's "American Pie", The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar", The Who's "Baba O'Riley", Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven", and more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A blast from the past
- De Amazon Customer en 07-30-16
De: David Hepworth
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1965
- The Most Revolutionary Year in Music
- De: Andrew Grant Jackson
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
During 12 unforgettable months in the middle of the turbulent '60s, America saw the rise of innovative new sounds that would change popular music as we knew it. In 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music, music historian Andrew Grant Jackson (Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of The Beatles' Solo Careers) chronicles a groundbreaking year of creativity fueled by rivalries between musicians and continents, sweeping social changes, and technological breakthroughs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seems like a good overview
- De wylie smith en 01-12-23
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Beatles '66
- The Revolutionary Year
- De: Steve Turner
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
The year that changed everything for the Beatles was 1966 - the year of their last concert and of Revolver, their first album created to be listened to rather than performed. This was the year the Beatles risked their popularity by retiring from live performances, recording songs that explored alternative states of consciousness, experimenting with avant-garde ideas, and speaking their minds on issues of politics, war, and religion. Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De Tad Davis en 07-28-18
De: Steve Turner
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Respect Yourself
- Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
- De: Robert Gordon
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 17 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great narration
- De A. K. Moore en 10-29-14
De: Robert Gordon
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Iggy Pop
- Open Up and Bleed
- De: Paul Trynka
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Iggy Pop's legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights with mega-hits and then hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions. Along the way, he's become a cult-rock hero, an inspiration for dozens of other famous rockers, and has had a pretty good time of it, too. But the image of Iggy Pop versus the man behind that image, James Newell Osterberg, Jr., is surprisingly contradictory.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Banal and Boring
- De Michael en 12-03-08
De: Paul Trynka
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- De: Miles Davis
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
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Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A man untroubled by his own contradictions
- De Barry en 12-07-12
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
- De: Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey
- Narrado por: Herbie Hancock
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Hancock discusses his musical influences, colorful behind-the-scenes stories, his long and happy marriage, and how Buddhism inspires him creatively and personally. Honest, enlightening, and as electrifyingly vital as the man who wrote it, Herbie Hancock promises to be an invaluable contribution to jazz literature and a must-read for fans and music lovers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Marks All Round
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De: Herbie Hancock, y otros
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An Exciting Opportunity Missed
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De: Ted Gioia
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
- De: James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
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From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The history of 3 jazz greats
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Listen to This
- Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
- De: Victor Svorinich
- Narrado por: John Gagnepain
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Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis' watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for 10-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African-American consciousness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very thorough
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Hammer and Hoe
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The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate Black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of Whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impeccable research and reporting
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Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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An Exciting Opportunity Missed
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century - and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world's most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This audiobook needs music
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Delta Blues
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- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Chris Abernathy
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The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A well-researched history of the blues
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De: Ted Gioia
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Kansas City Lightning
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- De: Stanley Crouch
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: A revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Disappointment
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Charles Mingus is a musician, a mongrel musician who plays beautiful, who plays ugly, who plays lovely, who plays masculine, who plays feminine, who plays all sounds, loud, soft, unheard sounds, sounds, sounds, sounds.... Beneath the Underdog is the memoir of the Angry Man of jazz, Charles Mingus - the genius whose adventures began at the feet of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, and led him on a tour of every bottle, bar and bed in the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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It's not about music at all.
- De Amazon Customer en 05-25-23
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband
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- De: Colin Kaepernick - editor, Robin D.G. Kelley - editor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - editor
- Narrado por: Jaime Lincoln Smith
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Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States.
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What a great way to outline important black history narratives
- De Amanda Pratt en 03-16-24
De: Colin Kaepernick - editor, y otros
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But Beautiful
- A Book About Jazz
- De: Geoff Dyer
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz.
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Masterful writing equally well performed
- De Christine Baker en 10-11-21
De: Geoff Dyer
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Sophisticated Giant
- The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
- De: Maxine Gordon
- Narrado por: Joe Morton, Terria Joseph, Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times.
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Beautifully Told
- De Light Mentat en 03-23-21
De: Maxine Gordon
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
- De: Philip S. Foner, Robin D.G. Kelley - foreword
- Narrado por: Brad Sanders
- Duración: 27 h y 28 m
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In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of black workers’ contribution to the American labor movement.
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Amazon labor Union
- De Michy en 01-27-23
De: Philip S. Foner, y otros
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The Jazz Standards
- A Guide to the Repertoire
- De: Ted Gioia
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this comprehensive and unique survey, here are the songs that sit at the heart of the jazz repertoire, ranging from "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Autumn in New York" to "God Bless the Child," "How High the Moon," and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." Gioia includes Broadway show tunes written by such greats as George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, and classics by such famed jazz musicians as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and John Coltrane.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great info, but not ideal in audio format
- De Patrick en 08-30-14
De: Ted Gioia
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Playing Changes
- Jazz for the New Century
- De: Nate Chinen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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“Playing changes”, in jazz parlance, has long referred to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. Playing Changes boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of significant changes - ideological, technological, theoretical, and practical - that jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Nate Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music.
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Jazz happens
- De álvaro castro en 02-11-19
De: Nate Chinen
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Cosmic Scholar
- The Life and Times of Harry Smith
- De: John Szwed
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, "the only person I met in my life that transcended everything." In Cosmic Scholar, John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures.
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A Weirdo Worth Your Time
- De Lulu en 09-28-23
De: John Szwed
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Dave Brubeck
- A Life in Time
- De: Philip Clark
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of 10 days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview with the bandleader. Brubeck opened up as never before, disclosing his unique approach to jazz; the heady days of his "classic" quartet in the 1950s-'60s; hanging out with Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, and Miles Davis; and the many controversies that had dogged his 66-year-long career.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over emphasis on describing the music
- De Arthur en 04-08-24
De: Philip Clark
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Thelonious Monk
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- bdbrinker
- 08-05-20
Justice for Monk
Monk truly deserved to have this book written. After all the nonsense said about him, he deserved this. Beautiful and touching. I feel so honored to listen to his music and to understand his life through a masterful and sympathetic writer. Thank you both. Justice for Monk. And god bless Nellie.
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- Jacob Christian Stergos
- 04-16-19
Astonishing
Robin D.G. Kelley’s achievement cannot be overstated. This is a comprehensive book that covers in detail nearly every aspect of Thelonious Monk’s life, and takes great pains to accurately and expressively contextualize his life and his music. The author’s love for his subject is unmistakable, and to be able to experience such an intimate and thorough portrait of Monk is a profound gift.
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- Regina
- 04-17-22
Authoritative and well investigated bio w/analysis
Well researched. Gives an accurate biography with very thorough and specific information about dates, musical collaborators, and track listings. Reading is patient and expressive without undue dramatization as befits the text. A bit dry, but highly informative..
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- Allegra Stevens
- 06-10-21
When does the movie come out!
I really enjoyed this book. It was long but so packed with history and side stories that greatly enhanced the story of T Monk. I am not a jazzer but am interested in learning about Thelonius Monk. I have purposely sought out and listened to the pieces that the author mentions and his story makes the music great
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- Corey
- 04-22-24
Long Live Monk!
Insightful, musical, a glimpse into a complex and ingenious mind. Monk’s place in the music cannon and imagination is secured!
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- ricardo
- 12-27-17
The definitive bio of Monk
Excellent book!!! Excellent story about Mr. Monk, his devotion to his family, his generosity to fellow musicians, his tenacity and dedication to his vision of modern music. The people who surround Monk like Nelly and Nica, aa well as his associates in the music business get a fair shake in this book. Mr. Monk is examined fairly and accurately in all aspects of his life. His “eccentric “ behavior and chemical imbalance are addressed clinically yet compassionately.
Every aspect of Monk’s creative life and musical output is completely discussed. This is “The Book” on Mr. Monk. Excellent. 1000 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-13-21
Absolutely Wonderful
I never wanted to turn it off. A beautifully written tribute to one of America's best original musicians.
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- NB
- 07-21-21
Very Worth Reading
Very detailed, sometimes making it slow reading, especially at the beginning, but so much valuable and interesting information about Monk, jazz, other musicians, and the times.
Most importantly, gave me a better understanding of this complex person and genius who has influenced music so profoundly.
Enjoy.
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- Robert
- 09-21-22
Wonderful
I hardly ever write these reviews, but this is such a wonderful book that I had to tell everyone. I have read a lot of biographies in my life and this has to be one of the most haunting and beautiful of them all. I recommend it highly.
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- Jerry Richard
- 06-15-20
best audible book yet
Loved the story and absolutely loved the narrator. Couldn't help but enjoy some Monk albums at the same time that I was hearing the book.
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