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In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize--winning musician andcomposer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he's learned from alifetime in jazz-lessons that can help us all move to higherground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is thebirthright of every American and demonstrates how a realunderstanding of the central idea of jazz-the unique balancebetween self-expression and sacrifice for the common goodexemplified on the bandstand-can enrich every aspect of our lives,from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the schoolroom to CityHall. Along the way, Marsalis helps us understand the life-changingmessage of the blues, reveals secrets about playing-andlistening-and passes on wisdom he has gleaned from working withthree generations of great musicians. Illuminating and inspiring,Moving to Higher Ground is a master class on jazz and life,conducted by a brilliant American artist.

From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's RagtimeBand" to "Big Spender," from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages,the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool,sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glitteringdecades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter,and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticingunforgettable melodies out of thin air. Critically acclaimed writerWilfrid Sheed uncovered the legends, mingled with the greats, andgossiped with the insiders. Now he's crafted a dazzling,authoritative history of the era that "tripled the world's totalsupply of singable tunes." It began when immigrants in New York'sLower East Side heard black jazz and blues-and it surged into anartistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. Broke but eager, IzzyBaline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress,and embarked on a string of hits from "Always" to "Cheek to Cheek."Berlin's spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief buti

Breaking up is hard to do - and when a relationship turnssour, nothing provides more comfort than the cheesy pop hits of the'70s and '80s. Just as Quirk's I Can't Fight This Feeling was ananthology of classic love poetry, You Give Love a Bad Name featurespoetic writings on breaking up - and moving on - from The Bee Gees,Michael Bolton, Pat Benatar, Hall and Oates, and many others.Packaged in an elegant hardcover volume with a deluxe ribbonmarker, it's the perfect gift for anyone seeking to mend a brokenheart. Includes these timeless classics: - Is She Really Going Out with Him? - Joe Jackson - She's Gone - Hall and Oates - Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul - Alone - Heart - Goodbye to You - Scandal

You won t find poems by Emily Dickinson or Robert Browning inthis anthology but you will find heartfelt verse from suchluminaries as Olivia Newton-John, REO Speedwagon, Axl Rose, BarryWhite, The Partridge Family, and many others. I Can t Fight ThisFeeling showcases their most passionate lyrics in an eleganthardcover volume, with classy paper stock and a deluxe ribbonmarker. It s the perfect Valentine s Day gift for music-lovers anda literary heirloom that your family will cherish for generations.Includes these timeless classics: Hot Stuff Donna Sumer The Lady inRed Chris DeBurgh I Honestly Love You Olivia Newton-John MorningTrain Sheena Easton Bad Medicine Bon Jovi and many, many more!

John M. Gottman ha revolucionado el estudio del matrimonioutilizando procesos rigurosamente científicos para la observaciónde los hábitos de las parejas a través de muchos a?os en un detallesin precedentes. Aquí está la culminación de una vida de trabajo:los siete principios que guían a las parejas en el camino haciarelaciones duraderas y armoniosas. Directo en su método, pero a lavez profundo en sus resultados, estos principios ense?an asombrosasnuevas estrategias para hacer que el matrimonio funcione. Gottmanayuda a las parejas a concentrarse el uno en el otro, a prestaratención al día a día y a los peque?os detalles que, puestosjuntos, forman el corazón y el alma de cualquier relación.Acompa?ado de ejercicios y cuestionarios prácticos Los sieteprincipios para hacer que el matrimonio funcione es la guíadefinitiva para cualquiera que quiera que su relación alcance sumáximo potencial.

In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvardprofessor and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, turns his attention topopular music legend Bruce Springsteen, and to the powerful impactSpringsteen’s work has had both on the lives of his audience and onthis country’s literary tradition. Coles places Springsteen in thepantheon of American artists—Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams,Dorothea Lange, and Walker Percy, among others—who understood andwere inspired by their “traveling companions in time,” the ordinarypeople of their eras. With wisdom and a unique personal perspective, Coles exploresSpringsteen’s words as contemporary American poetry, and offersfirsthand accounts of how people interact with them: A truckerlistens to “Blinded by the Light” during long, lonely nights andreminisces about his mother; a schoolteacher is astonished when ausually silent student offers a comparison between “Nebraska” andConrad’s Heart of Darkness; a policeman responds to “Am

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick Long before "women in rock" became a media catchphrase, AfricanAmerican guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacularfashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, in1915, Tharpe was gospel's first superstar and the preeminentcrossover figure of its golden age (1945–1965). Shout, Sister, Shout! is the first biography of this trailblazingperformer who influenced scores of popular musicians, from ElvisPresley and Little Richard to Eric Clapton and Etta James. Tharpewas raised in the Pentecostal Church, steeped in the gospeltradition, but she produced music that crossed boundaries, defiedclassification, and disregarded the social and cultural norms ofthe age; incorporating elements of gospel, blues, jazz, popularballads, folk, country, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. Tharpewent electric early on, captivating both white and black audiencesin the North and South, in the U.S. and internationally, with hercharisma and skill.

For the generation coming of age in the years from 1987 to1994, RIP magazine was every bit as crucial as RollingStone . Life on Planet Rock describes how LonnFriend, the editor of RIP , became the Zelig-like chroniclerof the biggest musical moments of that time—from introducing GunsN’ Roses (in nothing but a top hat, underwear, and cowboy boots) tositting in during the making of Metallica’s Black Album . Life on Planet Rock provides revealing portraits ofartists as varied as Kurt Cobain, Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, AxlRose, James Hetfield, Steven Tyler, and many more. Part oralhistory, part candid and humorous memoir, it is a wormhole back toa fast-moving time in music that saw tastes flash from new wave tohair metal to grunge, told as only someone who was there through itall could tell it.

When a young Richie Furay moved to New York hoping to make itbig in folk music, God wasn’t one of his concerns. But destinywas. Later, when he started Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young andStephen Stills, it seemed Furay’s destiny had finally arrived.Although the band recorded only three albums, it remains atouchstone of sixties rock music–with all five band members nowenshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Furay remained a musical pioneer, forming Poco and recording someof the first–and best–country rock music of the sixties andseventies. His work was a major influence on the Eagles andinnumerable other bands. But he still had not found hisdestiny. It wasn’t until his marriage almost disintegrated that Furayconfronted his need for God. After co-founding two legendary bandsand recording with a rock super-group, Richie Furay finally foundhis destiny. The long journey took him from sold-out arena concertsto the pulpit of a Colorado church, from rock royalty to the Roc

Steve Silberman's tribute to Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995 Skeleton Key:A Dictionary for Deadheads is 400 pages of lore,history, interviews, and thoughts on the Meaning of It All, fromwhat guitarist Jerry Garcia calls "the Grateful Dead outback" - thediverse global community that is nourished by the music of theGrateful Dead and the shared experience of Dead shows. Skeleton Key is a labor of love and "deadication" by DeadheadsDavid Shenk and Steve Silberman, published by Doubleday/Main StreetBooks in 1994.Skeleton Key celebrates the magic, humor, andsignificance of the Deadhead community, while it investigates thehistory of the Long Strange Trip - from the days of be-bop jazz andthe Beat Generation writers whose literary adventures inspired manyDeadheads' own on-the-road journeys, to now, when Deadheads swaptapes and tales around the virtual campfires of Deadheadcyberspace. 1995 marks the 30th year of the Dead's experiment inimprovisational telepathy.Skeleton Key is the first detailed roadmap of the culture and

Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and movingchronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled withlong, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers atlast a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelvemonthly chapters span from January--when after decades of growingaffection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges inand buys a piano--through December, when as a surprise Christmaspresent for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickeringcandlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts theirfavorite piece of music, a difficult third-year composition he'sbeen struggling with in secret to get to this very moment. Among the up-tempo triumphs and unexpected setbacks, Noah Adamsinterweaves the rich history and folklore that surround the piano.And along the way, set between the ragtime rhythms andboogie-woogie beats, there are encounters with--and insightsfrom--masters of the keyboard, from Glenn Gould and Leon Fleisher("I was a bit embarrassed," he wr

Assembled from exhaustive interviews, We Got the Neutron Bombtells the authentically gritty stories of bands like the Runaways,the Germs, X, the Screamers, Black Flag, and the Circle--theirrise, their fall, and their undeniable influence on the rock 'n'roll of today.

“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take meplaces. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing.I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that Godwants to happen.” –CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing When he was a kid singing in his church choir, Clay Aiken neverdreamed of becoming a pop music star. His ambition was to be ateacher, maybe even a high school principal. But Clay’s mother wasright, and the music that was Clay’s joy in life was destined tolead him to unexpected triumphs. In Learning to Sing, Clay details what his astonishing successhas meant to him. He writes from the heart about his life beforeand since his instant stardom on American Idol, how he has changed,and how he struggles to adapt to life in the public eye. He speakscandidly about his lonely childhood: the father who abandoned him,the school bullies who tormented him, the mother who taught him tobe strong, and the friends and teachers who–more than they everkne

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguablythe most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing inhyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouacand Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as hediscussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first trulyCatholic band to Anne Murray’s smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines,Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland hascompiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and CarburetorDung, the first, now classic collection of Bangs’s work. Here areexcerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager,travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, andcriticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, LouReed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Enoand Captain Beefheart. Singularly entertaining, this book is anabsolute must for anyone interested in the history of rock.