Maria Callas was almost as famous for her personal life - her jet-setting her staggering weight loss her tigress-like temperament - as she was for her singing.Of Greek parentage the New York-born internationally famous Callas was the most influential soprano of the 20th century reviving a school of singing - bel canto - that had been forgotten for 75 years. Unlike most of her generation of sopranos she was a superb actress both vocally and physically: her voice encompassed many colours and she embodied each character she portrayed. After seeing or hearing her in a role it was said it was difficult to imagine another singer attempting it so fierce was herindividual stamp. Her status went beyond cult; her triumphs and failures appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the world.This profusely illustrated musical biography covers Callas's life and career. A final third of the book analyzes the tracks on the two CDs describing what made Callas unique what made Callas Callas. Listen for yourselves to La Divina ('the divine one') as the Italians dubbed her and be amazed.

L?influence du saxophoniste John Coltrane ne se limite pas au cercle de musiciens qui ont eu la chance de le côtoyer ou de l?entendre, ni même à la constellation formée par ceux qui ont assimilé et prolongé ses découvertes jusqu?à nos jours. Son impact s?étend au-delà du jazz et de la musique elle-même, reflet d?une curiosité jamais assouvie plaçant sa vie comme son ?uvre sous le signe d?une seule et même quête.

Venant compléter la biographie de John Coltrane par Lewis Porter (dont l?édition française est parue dans la même collection), cet ensemble de textes est le fruit d?une rencontre entre des musiciens et chercheurs internationaux issus de différentes disciplines.

Cette diversité des angles de réflexion et des analyses apporte un éclairage nouveau sur les mécanismes intimes d?une création en perpétuel mouvement, où se télescopent le blues et la musique savante, l?Inde et l?Espagne. Elle permet aussi de dégager une cohérence, des lignes de force, et de découvrir l?unité primordiale qui se cache sous la rapide évolution stylistique du créateur de Blue Train, Giant Steps ou Ascension. Actes du colloque international « John Coltrane (1926-1967) : l??uvre et son empreinte » (Université François-Rabelais, Tours, 26-27 novembre 2007). / Livre / Agrafé /

Written by Brett Morgen with Richard Bienstock, Cobain: Montage Of Heck is a true goldmine of exclusive material collected and created for the acclaimed documentary. Delving further into the interviews, art and photography used in the film, this book is the perfect companion piece to the definitive film on this genuine legend's life.Even if you haven't yet seen the film, or you've loved it and have been left wanting more, Cobain: Montage Of Heck will definitely quench your thirst for all things Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. The legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist has gone down in history as almost a mythically brilliant voice of a generation, turning late 20th century angst into electrifying rock music. Brett Morgen's Montage Of Heck documentary was fully authorised by the Cobain family, after his widow Courtney Love approached him with the idea for the film.Getting exclusive access to Cobain's personal and family archives was an unprecedented achievement, allowing Morgen to delve deeply into home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, demos and journals, presenting an intimate portrait of Cobain's personal life as well as his astonishing artistry. The exclusive interviews in the film have provided fans with incredible insight into Cobain's life, featuring words from all the key figures like Courtney Love, Krist Novoselic, and his parents. Included in this book are extended versions of these interviews, giving unbridled vision into his life and work, told by the people who knew him best.Accompanying these interviews are some incredible and often never-before-seen visuals including animation stills from the films, personal art, candid photography and other treasures from his personal archive. Looking at these visuals, readers will find a true sense of the tortured genius, the artist who achieved enormous success and almost demi-god status yet still struggled with his personal, all-too-human demons. Since Cobain's tragic death, fans have been left with nothing but his music and an overwhelming amount of press rumours and cinema speculation. Now, Cobain: Montage Of Heck and the accompanying documentary provides the most definitive insight into the real man behind the musical legend.For nearly everyone who is interested in popular music, this book is absolutely fascinating. Cobain's boundary-pushing art has almost been overshadowed by rumour, but this book thankfully restores both to their rightful place, setting examples of his boundless creativity alongside authorised truths from the people who knew him intimately. Cobain: Montage Of Heck is sure to be seen as a true classic of rock biography. / Livre

Selected Lyrics 1972-2017-Bruce Springsteen Like a Killer in the Sun originally published in Italian is the definitive book on the work of Bruce Springsteen showing his unique narrative talent and offering an accurate critical examination of his poetics. It presents 117 among his best lyrics expounded and annotated with the philological care used for the classics of literature. In his introduction Leonardo Colombati draws the attention to the fact that Springsteen is an author grafted on the line that goes from Whitman to Steinbeck from Flannery O'Connor to Raymond Carver. The book also contains Springsteen's biography and discography plus an exclusive interview with Bruce Springsteen. Withforewords by Academy Award-winner Ennio Morricone and music critic Dave Marsh a committee member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Springsteen's biographer. Like a Killer in the Sun is a book for anyone who wants to listen to a powerful and inspired voice coming from the heart of America.

The Life and Music of Roy Orbison. Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of Elvis Presley or the everyman toughness of Johnny Cash, nor did he conduct wild-child stage antics like Jerry Lee Lewis. But he did possess a magnetic

Updated Edition-If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician you're holding it in your hands. For DownBeat the preeminent publication of the jazz world Miles Dewey Davis was one of its most cherished subjects. Since it began covering the jazz scene in 1939 no other artist has been more diligently chronicled in its pages than Davis.The beauty of this collection is seeing the development of an artist over time. The reviews of his music go from quietly introducing a new talent to revering perhaps the greatest jazz artist of his generation. The feature articles begin with a very young very polite Davis lamenting I've worked so little. Icould probably tell you where I was playing any night in the last three years. As he develops the interviews show Davis gaining confidence and stature showing swagger and becoming the over-the-top say-it-like-it-is showman that made every interview an event.The Miles Davis Reader compiles more than 200 news stories feature articles and reviews by some of the greatest writers in jazz into one volume. It delivers a patchwork of his words and music - in the moment as they happened. With several lengthy features added along with a dozen new photographs this new edition is a beautiful series of snapshots a year-by-year ride through the many phases of Davis as an artist and as a man.

First time in paperback! Noel Coward and Cole Porter's fascinating lives celebrated. Fresh on the heels of the popular motion picture based on Cole Porter's life De-Lovely Noel And Cole presents a delightful and often surprising portrait of these two geniuses. The author provides insight into both men's private lives - including a frank discussion of their homosexuality - while illuminating their musical achievements. Born an ocean apart - one in Indiana the other in England - Cole Porter and Noel Coward have come to represent the ultimate in sophistication and urbanity.Noel and Cole will be an essential reference as well as a fascinating dualbiography of two men who brought style and dazzle to the art of popular entertainment. Based on access to previously unpublished manuscripts lyrics scores and letters plus dozens of interviews the book also includes a chronology and a fifty-page section devoted to the analysis of select works.

Ever since his father gave him a disc recorder at the tender age of 10 Bruce Swedien has known what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.The names of the people he has worked with are too many to list but when one mentions musicians like Count Basie Duke Ellington Oscar Peterson Sarah Vaughan Eddie Harris Quincy Jones Jennifer Lopez and even Michael Jackson a great deal is immediately understood.In this book Swedien generously gives away detailed information from his lifetime in the studio - from a musical technical and very personal perspective.This book has something for everyone who is interested in music especially those curiousabout the stories behind the scenes of some of the best music to ever come out of the recording studio.

Brocardé en « Pape de Montauban » (Boris Vian), discrédité comme « doctrinaire » (André Hodeir), révéré comme « l?ange gardien » du jazz (Mezz Mezzrow), Hugues Panassié n?a pas mobilisé le lexique religieux par hasard.

Fervent lecteur dans ses jeunes années de Charles Maurras et de Jacques Maritain, activiste traditionnaliste contre l?hérésie moderne de Vatican II en son âge mûr, Panassié fut un de ces « catholiques exacts » de la trempe d?un Léon Bloy ? son écrivain préféré ?, traversant sûr de sa vérité controverses, anathèmes et disgrâces.

Comment l?amour fou de cet « intoxiqué du jazz » pour une musique dont les hérauts étaient noirs et étatsuniens s?est-il ajusté à l?environnement idéologique embrouillé des années 1930 qui l?ont vu naître et aux reconfigurations intellectuelles et politiques qui les ont suivies ? Au prix de quelles contorsions inattendues, transferts improbables et batailles acharnées, Panassié a-t-il pu, fort d'un rapport au monde à la fois traditionnaliste et non-conformiste, réactionnaire et visionnaire, vindicatif et communicatif, établir de façon si éclatante et si contagieuse un mythe du « vrai jazz » qui a puissamment façonné l?imaginaire de plusieurs générations de jazzophiles ?

C?est ce à quoi s?attache cette exégèse, instruite par une somme de documents d?archives inexplorés (correspondances, journal, articles oubliés), et précédée des lettres d?Hugues Panassié à André Hodeir ? ces deux figures antagonistes de la critique qui ont longtemps structuré l?historiographie du jazz en France. / Livre / Agrafé /

La Résurrection de Johnny Cash raconte l'histoire de peut-être le revirement le plus remarquable dans l'histoire musicale. Ainsi que la reconnaissance de drogue Cash, boire et déboires religieux dans les années cinquante et soixante, le livre creuse beaucoup plus profond, en se concentrant sur ??un moins connus mais non moins remarquable période de sa vie: la chute sans gloire post-1970 et la renaissance quasi biblique dans son ans plus tard. Se focalisant sur la période de dix ans entre 1986 et 1995, La Résurrection de Johnny Cash raconte en détail l'histoire de la chute humiliante de Cash de la grâce et de son renouveau sans précédent- sa lutte avec une variété cruelle des maladies- ses batailles en cours avec la dépendance, son de recherche pour trouver la direction dans sa carrière- sa renaissance éventuelle à la fois comme un artiste et un homme, et son héritage très influent. / Livre

Préface par Alexis Galpérine Avant-propos d'Henri DutilleuxIntroduction de Philippe Hersant ' We are the words- we are the music- we are the thing itself ', En reprenant cette pensée de Virginia Woolf dans son chef d'oeuvre Chants de l'Âme, Olivier Greif (1950-2000) posait la question du lien unissant l'homme au monde et à la création artistique, À leur tour, les mots et la musique lui rendent hommage par l'intermédiaire de ses amis et de ses proches qui, dans cet ouvrage, dessinent le portrait de ce génie musical du XXe siècle,Plus de dix années après la disparition soudaine de ce créateur exceptionnel, We are the words collecte pensées, récits et anecdotes nous permettant de découvrir ou de se souvenir d'Olivier Greif, au travers des mots de grands noms de la musique contemporaine français comme Henri Dutilleux, Marc Minkowski, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Emmanuelle Bertrand et Pascal Amoyel,We are the words, le premier ouvrage consacré à la production musicale et la vie d'Olivier Greif, transcrit les entretiens effectués dans le cadre du coffret de douze DVD de la collection ' Les Incontournables ', écrite et réalisée par Anne-Bramard Blagny et Julia Blagny : une série de documentaires mettant en lumière l'oeuvre d'un compositeur incompris de son époque, mais dont les spécialistes savent que l'histoire retiendra Olivier Greif comme un des grands maîtres de la musique française de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle,Fougueuse, impulsive, enivrante, profonde et libre de contraintes, la musique singulière d'Olivier nous plonge dans la sensibilité exacerbée d'un homme à l'apparente candeur, mais hautement préoccupé par la mort, À l'image de ses oeuvres, ces entretiens se veulent le reflet des différentes facettes de la vie d'un compositeur à la fois mystique et friand de sucreries,,,Il aura suffi d'un concert hommage à l'Abbaye de La Prée pour qu'Anne Bramard-Blagny, réalisatrice de documentaires dijonnaise, se prenne d'une affection passionnée pour la musique d'Olivier Greif et choisisse de lui rendre hommage, Avec plus de 150 documentaires à leur actif, les productions ABB Reportages mettent en lumière la production culturelle et scientifique de personnalités bourguignonnes dont, l'oeuvre, trop souvent méconnue, est digne de plus grand intérêt,  Ont contribué à l'ouvrage : Anne Bramard-Blagny, Marie-Claude Pascal, Laure Broulard, Etienne Yver, Alexis Galpérine, Paul Blagny, Thibaut Lily, Olivier Haquette Ainsi que : Pascal Amoyel, Patricia Aubertin, Henri Barda, Emmanuelle Bertrand, René Bosc, Brigitte François-Sappey, Jean-Jacques Greif, Andréa Hill, Patrick Langot, Benoît Menut, Stéphanie Moraly, Yves Petit de Voize, Gaëtane Prouvost, Marylis et François Raoul-Duval et Etienne Yver Le livre d'entretiens en DVD de la collection 'Les incontournables', Olivier Greif, (Diapason d'Or), est disponible sur le site internet de ABB Reportages à l'adresse suivante : http://www,abbreportages,fr / Livre