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Author: Nina Simone
Publisher: Faber Music Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571528639
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, the author was one of the hardest to label. She recorded extensively in soul, jazz, and pop and was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. She has subsequently been labelled as a 'soul' singer in terms of emotion, rather than form.
Author: Nina Simone
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1495000435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Vocal Piano). One of the most powerful live performers of her time, Nina Simone mixed jazz, blues, soul, classical and more to create a genre all her own. This book features authentic transcriptions in the original keys of 23 Simone classics in voice with piano accompaniment format: Feeling Good * He Needs Me * I Loves You Porgy * I Put a Spell on You * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * It Might As Well Be Spring * Little Girl Blue * My Baby Just Cares for Me * Solitude * Willow Weep for Me * Work Song * Young, Gifted and Black * and more.
Author: Nina Simone
Publisher: Faber Music Limited
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571530359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nina Simone recorded extensively in soul, jazz, and pop and was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. This songbook features songs that are transcribed for piano, voice and guitar.
Author: Chilly Gonzales
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
Published: 2020-11-18
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 1912722879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.
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Publisher: Faber Music Piano Anthology series
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780571541195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bob Dylan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1451648723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.
Author: Ella Fitzgerald
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2004-09-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1458452425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Vocal Piano). Arguably the best female jazz singer ever, no one could out-swing or out-scat "The First Lady of Song." This fine book features authentic transcriptions in the original keys of 25 Fitzgerald classics in voice with piano accompaniment format: A-tisket, A-tasket * But Not for Me * Easy to Love * Embraceable You * The Lady Is a Tramp * Misty * Oh, Lady Be Good! * Satin Doll * Stompin' at the Savoy * Take the "A" Train * and more. Includes a biography and discography. A must for every jazz singer's library!
Author: Richard Elliott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1628921188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Popular music artists, as performers in the public eye, offer a privileged site for the witnessing and analysis of ageing and its mediation. The Late Voice will undertake such an analysis by considering issues of time, memory, innocence and experience in modern Anglophone popular song and the use by singers and songwriters of a 'late voice'. Lateness here refers to five primary issues: chronology (the stage in an artist's career); the vocal act (the ability to convincingly portray experience); afterlife (posthumous careers made possible by recorded sound); retrospection (how voices 'look back' or anticipate looking back); and the writing of age, experience, lateness and loss into song texts. There has been recent growth in research on ageing and the experience of later stages of life, focussing on physical health, lifestyle and psychology, with work in the latter field intersecting with the field of memory studies. The Late Voice seeks to connect age, experience and lateness with particular performers and performance traditions via the identification and analysis of a late voice in singers and songwriters of mid-late twentieth century popular music.
Author: Aretha Franklin
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781859090626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I never loved a man (the way I loved you); Respect; Do right woman do right man; Dr. Feelgood; (You make me feel like) A natural woman; Chain of fools; Save me; The house that Jack built; Think; I say a little prayer; See saw; Day dreaming; (I love you) Call me; Don't play that song (you lied); You're all I need to get by; I'm in love; Spanish Harlem; Rock steady; (Gonna find me an) Angel; Until you come back to me (that's what I'm gonna do)
Author: Nina Simone
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1993-08-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780306805257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it." Simone has created for herself a world of magnificent peaks. Often compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, Simone is known as one of the greatest singers of her generation. She has recorded forty-three albums, ranging from blues to jazz to folk, and her hits like "I Loves You, Porgy," "My Baby Just Cares for Me," "I Put a Spell on You," and "Mississippi Goddam" have confirmed her as an enduring force in popular music. Her song "Young, Gifted, and Black" became the anthem for the Civil Rights Movement and thrust her beyond international stardom into the center of activism. But such worlds as Simone's are not without their grim valleys: disastrous marriages, arrest and the threat of imprisonment, mental breakdown, poverty, and attempted suicide. She has survived these trials and continues to perform throughout Europe and the United States. With undiminished passion and in her unconquerable voice, this is Nina Simone's powerful memoir of her tempestuous life.
