Stormy Monday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stormy Monday write by Helen Oakley Dance. This book was released on 1999-03-01. Stormy Monday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most significant factor in the career of Aaron “T-Bone” Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of this early exponent of urban blues was not only admired by blues musicians like B.B. King, Gatemouth Brown, Albert King, and Albert Collins, and rock guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, but by such jazz greats as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, and many others with whom he recorded. Stormy Monday is the first biography of T-Bone Walker to be published. Using dozens of interviews with Walker, as well as with members of his family, close friends, fellow musicians, and business associates, the book offers a remarkable frank insider’s account of the life of a blues musician and compulsive gambler, from the wild living and hard drinking on the road to a solid and contented family life at home. “In a very real sense the modern blues is largely his creation.” blues authority Pete Welding has written about T-Bone Walker. “The blues was different before he came on the scene, and it hasn’t been the same since, and few men can lay claim to that kind of distinction. No one has contributed as much, as long, or as variously to the blues.”
Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stormy Weather write by James Gavin. This book was released on 2009-06-23. Stormy Weather available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At long last, the first serious biography of entertainment legend Lena Horne -- the celebrated star of film, stage, and music who became one of the first African-American icons. At the 2001 Academy Awards, Halle Berry thanked Lena Horne for paving the way for her to become the first black recipient of a Best Actress Oscar. Though limited, mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals, "the beautiful Lena Horne," as she was often called, became a pioneering star for African Americans in the 1940s and fifties. Now James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, draws on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews -- one of them with Horne herself -- to give us the defining portrait of an American icon. Gavin has gotten closer than any other writer to the celebrity who has lived in reclusion since 1998. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Laurents, and several of Horne's fellow chorines from Harlem's Cotton Club, Stormy Weather offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne -- a stunning talent who inspired such giants of showbiz as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin, but whose frustrations with racism, and with tumultuous, root-less childhood, left wounds too deep to heal. The woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous. From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography.
Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stormy Weather write by Linda Dahl. This book was released on 1989. Stormy Weather available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the impact of women on the development of jazz and profiles the careers of influential female jazz musicians and singers
Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Novel
Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Novel write by Paula L. Woods. This book was released on 2001. Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. LAPD detective Charlotte Justice takes on the murder case of aging film director Maynard Duncan.
The Voice of the Blues
The Voice of the Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Voice of the Blues write by Jim O'Neal. This book was released on 2002. The Voice of the Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some voices you will hear in The Voice of the Blues: "I sing blues for some money and I sing because I love 'em. They tried to put me over in another bag but I just don't fit no other bag. Exactly I fits one shoe, and that is the blues."-Muddy Waters "I never did name one of my records 'the blues' . . . Everybody else called my sounds what I made 'the blues.' But I always just felt good behind 'em; I didn't feel like I was playin' no blues. I felt like it sound just as good to the spiritual people as it would to somebody in a bar. . ."-Jimmy Reed "The Voice of the Blues" brings together lengthy interviews with pioneering blues performers including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, B. B. King, and many others. Each interview captures the "voice" of the blues performer, reflecting life experiences, musical influences, and achievements. Illustrations include rare archival photographs and documents. A must for fans of the blues-both traditional and electric.
