Biographien von Rhythmandblues-Musikern

Janis Joplin: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)

Autor: Hourly History

Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life

Autor: Jonathan Gould

Wolfram Rehfeldt: Domorganist und Komponist

Autor: Beate Niestroj

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

Autor: Elaine M. Hayes

With Billie

Julia Blackburn

The Confessions of Rick James: "Memoirs of a Super Freak"

Rick James

Fingerstyle Blues & Rock (mit Audio CD)- Solos for Guitar (Gitarrenschule)

Felix Schell

Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues

Joel Selvin

What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography

Alan Light

Shining Star: Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind & Fire

Philip Bailey, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

James McBride

" You won't leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling. " ( The Boston Globe) 

One of N P R's Best Books of the Year   Los Angeles Times  Book Prize Finalist

Kill ' Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James Mc Bride goes in search of the "real" James Brown. Mc Bride's travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown's never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown's enduring legacy.  

" A tour de force of cultural reportage. " ( The Seattle Times)

" Thoughtful and probing. " ( The New York Times Book Review)

" Masterly. . . powerful. " ( Los Angeles Review of Books)

" Mc Bride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to 'the real James Brown'] as we'll ever get. " ( David Hajdu,   The Nation)

" A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude. " ( U S A Today)

"[ Mc Bride is] the biographer of James Brown we've all been waiting for. . . . Mc Bride's true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn't want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard. " ( Boris Kachka,   New York)

Prince 'in the Studio' (1975-1995)

Jake Brown

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece

Matt Dobkin

The Rise of Prince: 1958-1988

Alex Hahn, Laura Tiebert

The Rise of Prince: 1958-1988 is the definitive account of the formative years of this iconic artist. More so than any previous book, this volume provides a dramatic, compelling narrative of Prince's rise to fame. The prologue provides a gripping, day-to-day account of the events that unfolded between November 2015 and April 21, 2016, when Prince tragically died at Paisley Park. The great distance traveled by Prince during his final months of tours of Australia and New Zealand, a funeral in the Bay Area for former muse and lover Denise Matthews, a tour of Canada, and a final return home mirrored Prince's nomadic childhood, to which the book returns after detailing the events of 2016.

Hahn, writing in collaboration with veteran author Tiebert, brings his extraordinary experience to this book, which includes fully updated and expanded elements of his controversial 2003 biography Possessed, a sought-after collector's item that remains a classic of Prince literature. The Rise of Prince provides a complete reordering of what is known about Prince's formative years based on previously unavailable documents and persons never before interviewed. It provides newly unearthed information about early relationships and collaborations; a detailed account of the no-holds-barred competition with Rick James on the 1981 tour that set the course for Prince's meteoric rise; a vivid depiction of the recording of Prince's album at Sunset Sound, including a little-known encounter with Sly Stone; and much more.

Ultimately, The Rise of Prince tells the very human story of how Prince overcame adversity to achieve one of the greatest runs of creativity in pop history, creating an unparalleled universe of side projects, alter-egos and lovers along the way.

A Cure For Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage (English Edition)

Autor: Joe Jackson

On Time: A Princely Life in Funk (English Edition)

Autor: Morris Day

Ray Charles: Die Geburt Des Soul (German Edition): Ray Charles - Die Geburt Des Soul

Autor: Mike Evans

Rhythm und Blues