Music To Live BY

Fact: Some seventy years ago, Louis Armstrong was bigger than the Beatles. Fact: Louis' record sales provided the seed money for some of today's great communications empires. Fact: Pops' startling trumpet prowess and ingratiating vocals transformed the phrasing of every instrumentalist and vocalist on earth--and these are the sessions that started it all...

This classic study of jazz by renowned composer, conductor, and musical scholar Gunther Schuller was widely acclaimed on its first publication in 1968. The first of two volumes on the history and musical contribution of jazz, it takes us from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930's...

Fans of early country and blues won't want to miss this compilation of newsreel footage from the '20s and '30s, capturing both the famous (Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills's Texas Playboys) and the anonymous...

This great fake book features 200 songs, including: Ain't Misbehavin' * All of Me * Autumn in New York * Basin Street Blues * Blue Skies * Body and Soul * Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man * Cocktails for Two * Everybody Loves My Baby * Falling in Love with Love * Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How Deep Is the Ocean * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Just a Gigolo * Mood Indigo * Moonglow * My Blue Heaven * My Romance * Ol' Man River * Puttin' On the Ritz * Remember * Solitude * St...

Pearl Harbor Jazz is an in-depth study of American jazz and popular music from the Pearl Harbor attack to January 1943, when Duke Ellington’s groundbreaking jazz epic Black, Brown, and Beige premiered at Carnegie Hall...

OHM+ : the early gurus of electronic music Special Edition 3CD + DVD Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip— inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot, electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers— and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression...