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  • Nilsson
    Alyn Shipton
    Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson.In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gr...
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    32,49 €

  • Hi-de-Ho
    Alyn Shipton
    Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a warm charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho: The Life of Cab Calloway, author Alyn Shipton sheds new light on Calloway's life and career, explaining how he traversed racial and social boundaries to become ...
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    53,66 €

  • Out of the Long Dark
    Alyn L. Shipton / Alyn LShipton
    Few British jazz musicians have been at the cutting edge of as many movements as the late Ian Carr. A pioneer bebop player in his youth, a colleague of Eric Burdon and John McLaughlin in the R’n’B explosion of the 60s, co-leader of one of Britain’s most innovative jazz groups – the Rendell-Carr Quintet, a free-jazz colleague of John Stevens and Trevor Watts, and the founding fa...
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    31,61 €

  • Lullaby of Birdland
    Alyn Shipton / George Shearing
    Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"-the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique "locked hands" approach to playing the piano, Shearing’s quintet with guitar and vibraphone in close harmony to his own playing revolutionized small group jazz,...
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    37,89 €

  • Fats Waller
    Alyn L. Shipton
    Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet, eleven inches tall, he weighed 285 pounds. The greatest of the Harlem stride pianists, he composed hundreds of songs, he led a band that made over 400 recordings, and he wrote severa. ...
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    42,19 €

  • Groovin’ High
    Alyn L. Shipton
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    54,42 €