AMY WINEHOUSE BY BLAKE WOOD
When 22-year-old American photographer Blake Wood moved to London in 2007, a mutual friend introduced him to Amy Winehouse. After winning five Grammy...
Opera, Jazz, Rock, Pop
PLEASE KILL ME: THE UNCENSORED ORAL HISTORY OF PUNK (ANNIVERSARY)
Written by McCain, Gillian
"Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time."--Time Out New York "Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity."--The New York Times "No volume serves juicier dish on punk's New York birth . . .
JULIA BAIER - IN TUNE VARIATIONS ON AN ORCHESTRA
Written by Julia Baier
Photographs of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen from 2000-2014 by photographer Julia Baier. Glasmeier's text refers to the music of John Cage.
DAVID BOWIE AND PHILOSOPHY: REBEL, REBEL
The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic, but there is much more to Bowie than mere spectacle. The visual belies the increasing depths of his concerns, even at his lowest personal moments.
FUCKED UP READER
First published to critical acclaim in 1999 and reprinted numerous times, Fucked Up and Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement is still the seminal book on the art of punk rock fliers. While most attention has been paid to the phenomenal archive of images in the book, the essays contained offer an incredible snapshot of the birth of the movement and its lasting legacy.
SHOCK AND AWE: GLAM ROCK AND ITS LEGACY, FROM THE SEVENTIES TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Written by Reynolds, Simon
NPR Great Read of 2016
RISE OF DAVID BOWIE, 1972-1973 (BUDGET EDITION-NOT AUTOGRAPHED)
"Such a privilege to have known and worked with him. A remarkable man and artist. I loved him."-- Mick Rock, 2016A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing.
CONVERSATIONS IN JAZZ: THE RALPH J. GLEASON INTERVIEWS
Written by Gleason, Ralph J
An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
FRANK: THE VOICE
Written by Kaplan, James
Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century--infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma.
MILES
Written by Davis, Miles
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.
DEEP IN A DREAM: THE LONG NIGHT OF CHET BAKER
Written by Gavin, James
This first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of cool jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth.
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