Popular music
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Handful of Keys
Jazz pianists occupy a unique place in the story of jazz, and the development of the solo piano tradition can be traced independently from that of instrumental ensemble jazz. Above all, piano jazz is about the individuals who have made their own individual contributions to the st...
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The Day is So Long and the Wages so Small
In the summer of 1958 Samuel Charters and Ann Danberg travelled to Andros, an ‘island on the wrong side of the wind’ in the Bahamas. They were drawn to this remote location by a song, so rich and startling in its resonance that they followed it to its source.
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Musica Brasileira
"The whole astonishing range of Brazilian music is revealed…"—Stage and Television Today.
The hardback of this book, which appeared in 1994 was revised, expanded and issued in paperback in 2002 . The author takes us from the merging of Amerindian, African and European cultu...
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Musica Brasileira
"The whole astonishing range of Brazilian music is revealed…"—Stage and Television Today.
The hardback of this book, which appeared in 1994 was revised, expanded and issued in paperback in 2002 . The author takes us from the merging of Amerindian, African and European cultu...