Sympathy for the Drummer

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493050699
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Sympathy for the Drummer by : Mike Edison

Download or read book Sympathy for the Drummer written by Mike Edison and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush—capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived—and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house. Charlie Watts, the anti-rock star—an urbane jazz fan with a dry wit and little taste for the limelight—was witness to the most savage years in rock history, and emerged a hero, a warrior poet. With his easy swing and often loping, uneven fills, he found nuance in a music that often had little room for it, and along with his greatest ally, Keith Richards, he gave the Stones their swaggering beat. While others battled their drums, Charlie played his modest kit with finesse and humility, and yet his relentless grooves on the nastiest hard-rock numbers of the era ("Gimme Shelter," "Street Fighting Man," "Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," etc.) delivered a dangerous authenticity to a band that on their best nights should have been put in jail. Author Mike Edison, himself a notorious raconteur and accomplished drummer, tells a tale of respect and satisfaction that goes far beyond drums, drumming, and the Rolling Stones, ripping apart the history of rock'n'roll, and celebrating sixty years of cultural upheaval. He tears the sheets off of the myths of music making, shredding the phonies and the frauds, and unifies the frayed edges of disco, punk, blues, country, soul, jazz, and R&B—the soundtrack of our lives. Highly opinionated, fearless, and often hilarious, Sympathy is an unexpected treat for music fans and pop culture mavens, as edgy and ribald as the Rolling Stones at their finest, never losing sight of the sex and magic that puts the roll in the rock —the beat, that crazy beat!—and the man who drove the band, their true engine, the utterly irreplaceable Charlie Watts.

Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers

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Publisher : Centerstream Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781574243383
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers by : Chet Falzerano

Download or read book Charlie Watts' Favorite Drummers written by Chet Falzerano and published by Centerstream Publications. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). In various interviews over the past 35 years Charlie Watts has expressed admiration for the talents of many drummers. But the fundamental connections of those he has noted as his favorites, help define his particular style, approach, and priorities as the drummer for the "Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World." Here then, are 26 biographies of Charlie Watts' favorites drummers. Included are Art Blakey, Chico Hamilton, Art Taylor, Phil Seamen, Ginger Baker, Jerry Allison, Papa Jo Jones, Jim Keltner, Kenny Clarke, Davey Tough, Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Jake Hanna, Tony Williams, Max Roach, Joe Morello, and Big Sid Catlett.

Charlie Watts

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Publisher : Bobcat Books
ISBN 13 : 0857124528
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Book Synopsis Charlie Watts by : Alan Clayson

Download or read book Charlie Watts written by Alan Clayson and published by Bobcat Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often appearing as a mere onlooker who didn't really want to be there, Charlie Watts - 'the silent Stone' - embraced fame reluctantly. Yet, ironically, if any one of the Stones could have made it big without the rest, it surely would have been Watts, who showed as much early promise as an artist as he did a jazz drummer. Understated and seemingly underwhelmed, Watts provided a stark contrast to the brash Keith Richards and the bohemian Brian Jones, and was, in some ways, an unlikely candidate for the drummer's stool. Forty years later, however, he is regarded by many as the one factor that has kept the band going, bringing vitality to their music as well as artistry to their album covers. Charlie Watts, remarkably the first biography of the drummer, continues Alan Clayson's study of The Rolling Stones with an intriguing insight into the life of the man who has been keeping time for the Stones for over four decades. Alan Clayson is a noted writer and author of many musical biographies, including The Beatles Box biography set.

Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn

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ISBN 13 : 9781973270836
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn by : Pops Coffee

Download or read book Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn written by Pops Coffee and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated to 2020, this is an account of the development and output of the great young traditional jazz band Tuba Skinny, which is based in New Orleans. Many recommendations are included of videos to watch and recordings available for purchase.

The Penguin Jazz Guide

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959002
Total Pages : 1113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis The Penguin Jazz Guide by : Brian Morton

Download or read book The Penguin Jazz Guide written by Brian Morton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should have and shows how they tell the history of the music and with it the history of the twentieth century. He has completely revised his and Richard Cook's entries and reassessed each artist's entry for this book. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike. 'It's the kind of book that you'll yank off the shelf to look up a quick fact and still be reading two hours later' Fortune 'Part jazz history, part jazz Karma Sutra with Cook and Morton as the knowledgeable, urbane, wise and witty guides ... This is one of the great books of recorded jazz; the other guides don't come close' Irish Times

The Jazz Book

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613746040
Total Pages : 1151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jazz Book by : Joachim-Ernst Berendt

Download or read book The Jazz Book written by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 1151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years The Jazz Book has been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume. In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book’s last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research about earlier periods in the history of jazz. In addition, new chapters have been added on John Zorn, jazz in the 1990s and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmonica, non-Western instruments, postmodernist and repertory big bands, how the avant-garde has explored tradition, and many other subjects. With a widespread resurgence of interest in jazz, The Jazz Book will continue well into the 21st century to fill the need for information about an art form widely regarded as America’s greatest contribution to the world’s musical culture.

Gretsch Drums

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780931759987
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (599 download)

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Book Synopsis Gretsch Drums by : Chet Falzerano

Download or read book Gretsch Drums written by Chet Falzerano and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miscellaneous Percussion Music - Mixed Levels

Jazz Forum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drum Book

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879304768
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Drum Book by : Geoff Nicholls

Download or read book The Drum Book written by Geoff Nicholls and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the history of the rock drum kit, its leading manufacturers, and the drummers who inspired innovation in its making

Blindsight

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429955198
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Blindsight by : Peter Watts

Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Beneath the Underdog

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857862181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (621 download)

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Book Synopsis Beneath the Underdog by : Charles Mingus

Download or read book Beneath the Underdog written by Charles Mingus and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Mingus, bassist, composer and bandleader, was one of the towering figures of American twentieth century music. In this memoir, Mingus documents his childhood on an Army base in Arizona, his difficult teenage years in Watts, and his musical education by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker. Unique and lyrical voice, this memoir charts the highs and lows of a life lived to the full. Beneath the Underdog is also a portrait of life in the Forties and Fifties, of ideas of identity and race in America and the ways in which they affected the young Mingus. Above all, it is a powerful tale told through the eyes of an inspiring, anguished and extraordinary musician.

Circular Breathing

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082238728X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Circular Breathing by : George McKay

Download or read book Circular Breathing written by George McKay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Circular Breathing, George McKay, a leading chronicler of British countercultures, uncovers the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain. Examining jazz from the founding of George Webb’s Dixielanders in 1943 through the burgeoning British bebop scene of the early 1950s, the Beaulieu Jazz Festivals of 1956–61, and the improvisational music making of the 1960s and 1970s, McKay reveals the connections of the music, its players, and its subcultures to black and antiracist activism, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, feminism, and the New Left. In the process, he provides the first detailed cultural history of jazz in Britain. McKay explores the music in relation to issues of whiteness, blackness, and masculinity—all against a backdrop of shifting imperial identities, postcolonialism, and the Cold War. He considers objections to the music’s spread by the “anti-jazzers” alongside the ambivalence felt by many leftist musicians about playing an “all-American” musical form. At the same time, McKay highlights the extraordinary cultural mixing that has defined British jazz since the 1950s, as musicians from Britain’s former colonies—particularly from the Caribbean and South Africa—have transformed the genre. Circular Breathing is enriched by McKay’s original interviews with activists, musicians, and fans and by fascinating images, including works by the renowned English jazz photographer Val Wilmer. It is an invaluable look at not only the history of jazz but also the Left and race relations in Great Britain.

Zildjian

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780793591541
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Zildjian by : Jon Cohan

Download or read book Zildjian written by Jon Cohan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, fully authorized by Zildjian, tells the exciting story of the world's most popular cymbal company on the monumental occasion of its 375th anniversary .... The Zildjian story is told firsthand by the Zildjian family members and by the legendary drummers who participated in the important musical movements of the 20th century"--Jacket.

Sticks 'n' Skins

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Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780615282886
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Sticks 'n' Skins by : Jules Follett

Download or read book Sticks 'n' Skins written by Jules Follett and published by Alfred Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the heartbeat of music in this 560-page coffee table book illuminating the eclectic world of drumming over the past 70 years. Fotos By Folletts photographers traveled to 53 cities in four countries and photographed over 500 drummers to be included in the pages of this captivating hardcover book.

Life

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316178721
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Life by : Keith Richards

Download or read book Life written by Keith Richards and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.

Kick it

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ISBN 13 : 0190683864
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Kick it by : Matt Brennan

Download or read book Kick it written by Matt Brennan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig and Zildjian dynasties, jazz icons like Gene Krupa and Max Roach, rock stars from Ringo Starr to Keith Moon, and popular artists who haven't always got their dues as drummers, such as Karen Carpenter and J Dilla. Tackling the history of race relations, global migration, and the changing tension between high and low culture, author Matt Brennan makes the case for the drum kit's role as one of the most transformative musical inventions of the modern era. Kick It shows how the drum kit and drummers helped change modern music--and society as a whole--from the bottom up.

Historic Connecticut Music Venues: From the Coliseum to the Shaboo

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467150037
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Book Synopsis Historic Connecticut Music Venues: From the Coliseum to the Shaboo by : Tony Renzoni

Download or read book Historic Connecticut Music Venues: From the Coliseum to the Shaboo written by Tony Renzoni and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecticut is home to a number of landmark music venues that have featured local and national performers. While some of the locations have closed, they have certainly not been forgotten. The New Haven Coliseum, the Arena and the Bushnell Memorial were once the places to be for music lovers, while elsewhere places like the Cheri Shack and the Shaboo hosted local bands and national headliners. Other venues such as Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, The Meadows and Toad's Place have now taken center stage and continue to attract large crowds. With in-depth interviews with performers and many timeless photos, author Tony Renzoni takes you on a nostalgic and fun tour of the Nutmeg State's most beloved music sites.