Legendary songs from the king of Reggae, Bob Marley. Includes 'Jamming', 'Mellow Yellow', 'I Shot The Sheriff' and 'Concrete Jungle'.

Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life In Music tells the extraordinary story of one of the twentieth century???s most inspirational British women. Born into an artistic family in impoverished circumstances her prodigious musical talent and sheer determination was her passport out of hardship leading to recognition as one of the most talented young pianists of her generation. Her emergence as a visionary teacher leads to the founding of the Leeds International Piano Competition and relationships with many internationally renowned pianists whose lives she has touched through her work. Interwoven throughout the story Dame Fanny Waterman shares her inspirationalphilosophies on life learning and music and her compelling and utter passion for the Piano.

The Music Of George Harrison-Far from being 'the quiet one ' George Harrison was a writer and arranger of terrific power and beauty and his guitar playing was fundamental to the sound and success of The Beatles.Simon Leng presents the most comprehensive evaluation of the art and music of George Harrison ever published from the star's initial early influences right up to his final collection of songs Brainwashed. Treating each song with unprecedented analysis Leng reveals Harrison's eclectic approach - from teenage Nashville twang through Indian raga psychedelia gospel soul and pure pop - thoroughly defining Harrison's role in The Beatles. First hand accounts of theConcert For Bangla Desh and the making of All Things Must Pass take the reader deep into the most fertile and controversial periods of Harrison's long solo career.Enhanced with insights from key figures who worked closely with Harrison throughout his extraordinary career this biography is a remarkably stirring study and portrait of a great artist whose musical and spiritual quest changed the lives of millions of people around the world while redefining popular music and rock'n'roll.

Ravel's musical achievements as well as his life and times are brilliantly recreated in this masterly biography originally published in 1975.The standard Ravel biography by the world's foremost authority â?? brilliantly detailed and documented filled with quotations from letters interviews with the composer's friends an illuminating analysis of each of his works a study of his musical esthetics and language a complete catalog of his works and a discography.Includes 48 illustrations.

The great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 works of every musical genre - symphonies concertos chamber works even operas. In this book the first of two David Hurwitz guides the reader/listener through the master's chamber and orchestral music a body of work unique in style expressive range emotional depth formal perfection and sheer beauty. This music doesn't sound like anyone else's. Only Mozart could have written it. Hurwitz's insightful text and the accompanying full-length CD shows us what makes Mozart's music so unique and special - and how to enjoy its many delights. This book is the first of a two-volume set covering Mozart'sorchestral and vocal work.

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.

Auteur-compositeur-interprète de folk anglais, Nicholas Rodney Drake (1948-1974) Bien qu?étant salué par la critique, n?a jamais obtenu l?attention du public de son vivant. Cependant Nick Drake est l?objet d?une reconnaissance posthume, ses trois albums, loin d?être tombés dans l?oubli, suscitent un intérêt croissant auprès des nouvelles générations.

Nick Drake a traversé le monde musical à la vitesse d?une météorite. Artiste lunaire, magicien de la six cordes acoustique, ce féru de poésie se lance très tôt dans l?écriture de chansons. Puis il décide de tout sacrifier à cette passion, abandonne ses études, fait quelques concerts, finit par être signé dans une maison de disques et publie son premier opus : « Five leaves left » (1968). Reconnu par la presse mais boudé par le public, Nick Drake sort deux ans plus tard « Bryter layter ». L?album une nouvelle fois excellent ne parvient pas à séduire le public pas plus que son dernier disque, le crépusculaire « Pink moon » paru en 1972.

Le jeune homme, découragé et en proie à de graves problèmes personnels songe à tout arrêter et retourne vivre chez ses parents. Il y est retrouvé mort à l?automne 74.

Nick Drake est l?objet d?une reconnaissance posthume, ses trois albums, loin d?être tombés dans l?oubli, suscitent un intérêt croissant auprès des nouvelles générations.

- De stars internationales reprennent ses musiques : Tom Verlaine, Kate Bush, REM, Everything but the girl, Beck, Robert Smith, The cure.

- En France, Johan Asherton est un des plus grands admirateurs contemporains de Nick Drake.

- Il a travaillé avec Françoise Hardy.

- Ses musiques sont utilisées en musique de film, dans les spots de pub, la campagne de la Croix rouge française.

- Le seul livre sur Nick Drake en français.

- Devenu une des références du rock dans le monde : de plus en plus cité et joué.

- Il aurait eu 60 ans en juin 2008 : pour ces raisons un livre événement dans le milieu rock et branché. / Variété / Livre /

James Gibbon Huneker (1857-1921) was a distinguished American newspaper critic, an essayist, and a prolific author. His writing style is remarkable ? unrestrained, informal, full of brilliant insight ? and this style plus Huneker's wide knowledge of art and literature as well as music has kept his literacy work alive. Chopin: The Man and His Music reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin's music that Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the great Polish composer whose music he adored. The book is divided into two parts. The first treats Chopin's life ? his youth in Poland, his emigration to Paris, the famous George Sand episode, his sickness and death ? and comments on Chopin as a teacher and as a pianist and performer. The second part discusses the entire body of Chopin's music, piece by piece. Huneker notes his own overall impression of the individual compositions as well as the impressions of Schumann, George Sand, Chopin's biographer Frederick Niecks, many of the great pianists, and others. He directly compares differing editions of Chopin's Études, Preludes, Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Sonatas, and other works edited by von Bülow, Kullak, Riemann, Mikuli, and Godowsky in their detailed treatment of fingering, phrasing, pedaling, tempo indication, and so forth. Huneker's entire work is reprinted here unchanged, thoroughly edited in running footnotes by Herbert Weinstock to correct the exuberant Huneker's inaccuracies and to add information that modern musical scholarship has unearthed. Weinstock has also provided an engrossing introductory essay on Huneker, and has amplified the bibliography to include modern books and articles on Chopin. A classic in musical biography and commentary, this work is unsurpassed for sympathetic understanding and insight into Chopin's life and music. It will interest equally music students, pianists, and music lovers.