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Hear My Train A Comin': The Songs of Jimi Hendrix ISBN: 9781800500136 Author(s): Kevin Le Gendre Price: £25.00 Pub. date: 06/11/2020

Hear My Train A Comin’ inves3gates the immense crea3vity of Jimi Hendrix, and his intriguing rela3onship with the art of song, a plaAorm he used for a mul3tude of ideas and improvisa3on.

Although his ac3vity as a recording ar3st spanned a period of just three years (1967–70) Jimi Hendrix created a body of work that has exerted a significant influence on ar3sts in the twen3eth century and beyond. A headline-grabbing, explosive performer, he is widely recognized as an innova3ve guitarist who broadened the vocabulary of his instrument through his technique and daring use of technology. For several genera3ons of cri3cs and audiences, he remains the archetypal rock star who framed his immeasurable talent with lifestyle excesses inherent to his profession.

Hear My Train A Comin’ appraises Hendrix’s legacy in different terms. His ability as a soloist is undeniable, but it is not necessarily the defining aspect of his genius. This book focuses on Hendrix the songwriter, a superla3ve storyteller who was able to combine melody, lyric and arrangement to create pieces that take pride of place in the pantheon of post-war popular music. Anthems such as ‘Crosstown Traffic’, ‘Voodoo Child (Slight Return)’, ‘Purple Haze’ and ‘Foxy Lady’ alchemize word and sound, and s3ll affect us today, a half-century a\er they were wri]en. Hendrix cra\ed composi3ons in the most complete sense of the term, making judicious decisions with regard to mood, texture, contrast and overall orchestral richness, looking at his basic resource, the guitarbass-drums set up, as a unit to be enhanced by a range of other instruments and studio produc3on.

Deeply rooted in black music — above all the blues, yet drawn to anything and everything that caught his ear — Jimi Hendrix was a unique talent and his songs, produced in a flurry of ac3vity, his glorious legacy. Hear My Train A Comin’ puts these audacious statements under the microscope to pinpoint the verve and a]en3on to detail with which they were were made and why they have stood the test of 3me.

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Keith Jarre*: a biography ISBN: 9781800500112 Author(s):Wolfgang Sandner Price: £25.00 Pub. date: 02/11/2020

Keith Jarre+ is one of the great pianists of our 3mes. Before achieving worldwide fame for his solo improvisa3ons, he had already collaborated with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. His ‘Köln Concert’ album (1975) has now sold around four million copies and become the most successful solo recording in jazz history. His interpreta3ons of the music of Bach, Händel, Bartók or Shostakovich, have also received much a+en3on in later years. Jarre+ is considered difficult and inaccessible, and has oUen abandoned the stage during his concerts due to restless audiences or disturbing photographers.

Few writers have come as close to Keith Jarre+ as Wolfgang Sandner, who has not only closely followed Jarre+’s remarkable career from the 1960s, but has also had the opportunity to visit him in his home in the United States. For this biography, which is full of detailed musical analysis and cross-references to other ar3s3c genres, Sandner has collected new informa3on about Jarre+’s family background, much of which is thanks to the translator, Keith Jarre+’s youngest brother Chris.

The book explores Jarre+’s work with other musicians, in par3cular the members of his American and European Quartets and his Standards Trio, it charts the development of his solo concerts, and it also inves3gates his work in the classical sphere, as well as the highly original music he has created in his own home studio. It also covers his associa3ons with his various record labels and producers, notably his unparalleled rela3onship with ECM and its founder Manfred Eicher. This English edi3on is a significantly extended and updated version of the German original.

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Komeda A Private Life in Jazz ISBN: 9781781799451 Author(s): Magdalena Grzebałkowska Price: £30.00 Pub. date: 06/10/2020

Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz is the biography of Krzysztof (Trzciński) Komeda (1931-1969), composer of no fewer than 40 soundtracks, including film scores to all of Roman Polański’s early films such as Knife in the Water and Rosemary’s Baby; and a revered figure in the world of jazz, which regards his record, AsRgmaRc (released in 1966), as a key album in the history of European jazz.

This biography of Komeda, originally published in Polish by Znak in 2018, is the first to be published in the English language and not only traces Komeda’s life, but also the development of Polish jazz during this period. It explores how this arose in large part out of a need for self-expression and personal freedom during a repressive period of Soviet communist dominance.

The book is full of interviews between the biographer and people who worked with and knew Krzysztof Komeda personally, and, while thoroughly-grounded in primary sources, it is wri[en in a playful, quesRoning, engaging style.

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Rounder Records: A Biography ISBN: 9781800500068 Author(s): Bill Nowlin Price:£25.00 Pub. date: 30/03/2021

Bill Nowlin, one of the three Rounder founders, lives in Cambridge, Massachuse<s, home of Rounder for most of its history. In addi@on to his work with Rounder, he has specialized in wri@ng and edi@ng books, most of them about another passion: baseball.

Rounder Records was born in 1970, a “hobby that got out of control,” a fledging record company more or less conceived when vinyl s@ll reigned, while the Six@es were s@ll in flower and which began publishing on a shoestring budget of just over $1,000. Founded by three friends just out of college, the Boston-area company produced over 3,000 record albums, the most ac@ve company of the last half-century specializing in roots music and its contemporary offshoots. Rounder won 56 Grammy Awards and documented a swath of music that in many cases might otherwise never have been presented to a broader public. It’s arguably a quintessen@ally American success story.

This book focuses on the early years up to and just through when Rounder evolved to a second stage, with a genera@onal change that has kept the label healthy and flourishing when so many other cultural enterprises from the era have folded or gone dark. It’s the story of three people with no background in business who took an idea and, through hard work and passion, built up something of las@ng cultural significance.

Vinyl Ventures: My Fi\y Years at Rounder Records is less a standard history and more an idiosyncra@c memoir wri<en by one of the three Rounder founders. The book includes original photographs taken by the author or drawn from the Rounder archives.

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The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema ISBN: 9781781791127 Author(s): Diane Hughes Price:£26.95 Pub. date: 24/11/2020

This volume focuses on the singing voice in contemporary cinema and considers different contextual forma9ons of singing and how they contribute to narra9ve, emo9onal affect and cultural sensi9vi9es.

The singing voice is arguably the most expressive of all musical instruments. This volume celebrates the ways in which singing features in film. This includes the singing voice as healer, as mo9vator, as entertainer, and as comedic interlude. Whether the singing voice in film is personally expressive, reflexive and distant, or synchronized for entertainment, there is typically interplay between the voice and visual elements. Extending beyond the body of literature on ‘the musical’, the volume is not about musicals per se. Rather, The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema discusses the singing voice as a dis9nct agent that focuses on iden9ty and iden9fica9on. This book explores the rela9onship between screen, singing, singer and song; it celebrates the intersec9on of the singing voice and popular culture. In doing so, the volume will cross mul9ple disciplines including vocal studies, film studies, film sound studies, and music produc9on (vocal processing).

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This is Bop ISBN: 9781781798744 Author(s):Peter Jones Price: £25.00 Pub. date: 06/11/2020

If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contribu@ons to jazz were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and raconteur, a word-smith par excellence, and a fearless improviser, he took the arts of scaDng and vocalese to new heights. As a founder member of the groundbreaking vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, he changed forever the public percep@on of what a jazz singer could be.

Jon Hendricks started singing professionally at the age of seven. Within five years he was suppor@ng his en@re family — including three sisters, eleven brothers and a niece — with his earnings from radio appearances. He was ac@ve in jazz long before the birth of bebop, and didn’t stop un@l he was in his nine@es. Tutored by the pioneering pianist Art Tatum, Hendricks performed with everyone of any consequence in jazz, from Louis Armstrong to Jazzmeia Horn. Before Lambert, Hendricks and Ross astonished the world with their first album Sing A Song Of Basie, he was wri@ng songs for Louis Jordan. Later he influenced and worked with The ManhaRan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin and Kurt Elling. When he died in 2017, he leZ behind a final masterwork — his vocal adapta@on of the Miles Davis album Miles Ahead.

This is Bop is the first biography of Jon Hendricks. Based on extensive research in both the USA and the UK, it draws on the author’s interviews with the Hendricks family and the many singers, musicians and industry figures who worked closely with him. As well as telling the story of his remarkable life, it also explores his legacy as a lyricist and a scat singer, his contribu@on to the art of vocalese, and his extraordinary giZs as a thinker and raconteur.

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Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival: The Lives, Song Tradi;ons and Legacies of Sam Larner and Harry Cox

ISBN: 9781781799178 Author(s):Bruce Lindsay Price: £25.00 Pub. date: 20/10/2020

Two Bold Singermen and the English Folk Revival is the first book to explore in depth the lives and song tradi=ons of two of the most influen=al English tradi=onal singers: Sam Larner and Harry Cox. Larner and Cox were born in late nineteenth-century Norfolk, within six years and fiJeen miles of each other. Both men grew up in large working-class families, started work before their teens, spent their working lives in hard manual labour — Larner as a trawlerman, Cox as a farm labourer — and lived into their eigh=es. Both men were singers from an early age, amassed large repertoires of songs that are now established in the tradi=onal canon, and became key figures in the “folk revival” of the 1950s and 1960s. They directly influenced performers such as Mar=n Carthy, Shirley Collins, Peggy Seeger, Young Tradi=on, and Steeleye Span, while indirectly influencing Paul Simon and Bob Dylan. Their impact extends to the current genera=on of performers and composers in the folk, Americana, and singer/songwriter fields, as well as to Hollywood.

Using extensive primary evidence – including recorded interviews with both men – this book provides the first detailed biographies of these great singers, placing their singing and repertoires within the social and cultural contexts in which they lived. It will appeal equally to lovers of tradi=onal song, to social history enthusiasts, and to any reader keen to know more of the fascina=ng lives of two outstanding singers whose influence con=nues to this day.

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