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<<< 1 2 3 4     sort list by title | author Straight Life The Story of Art Pepper Art Pepper, Laurie Pepper Art Pepper was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book—it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. Improvisation Its Nature and Practice in Music Derek Bailey Derek Bailey’s Improvisation, originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its forms—Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music... Beneath the Underdog His World as Composed by Mingus Charles Mingus A wild, lyrical, and anguished autobiography, in which Charles Mingus pays short shrift to the facts but plunges to the very bottom of his psyche, coming up for air only when it pleases him. He takes the reader through his childhood in Watts, his... Real Frank Zappa Book Peter Occhiogrosso, Frank Zappa The brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa--now in trade paperback. Here is the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock 'n' roll road stories, confrontations with... Eric Dolphy A Musical Biography and Discography Vladimir Simosko, Barry Tepperman In his tragically short life (1928–1964), Eric Dolphy was a titanic force in the development of the sixties avant-garde (or "new thing") from the hard bop of the late fifties. <<< 1 2 3 4