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Coltrane by Ben Ratliff
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
John Coltrane, who died aged 40 in 1967, is one of half a dozen truly fundamental contributors to the history of jazz. No-one - not Armstrong, Ellington or Monk, nor even Charlie Parker - inspires quite the same mystique or continuing intensity of fascination. No young saxophonist of the past forty year ...Show more
Coltrane - The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the fi ...Show more
Coltrane The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive biography of John Coltrane, and the first book to do justice to one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the "New York Times", has written the first book to do justice t ...Show more
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now by Ben Ratliff
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Category: Music
The most significant revolution in the recent history of music has to do with listening: it is now possible to listen to nearly anything at any time, to ignore albums, and to instantly flit across genres and generations, from 1980s Detroit techno to 1890s Viennese neo-romanticism. Yet music criticism ha ...Show more
The Jazz Ear by Ben Ratliff
$23.00 AUD
Category: Music
Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece "Kind of Blue". Musicians are often loath to discuss their craft for fear of destroying its improvisational essence ...Show more
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