Bowie's Piano Man
Title | Bowie's Piano Man PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford Slapper |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1617137383 |
BOWIE'S PIANO MAN: THE LIFE OF MIKE GARSON
Bowie's Piano Man
Title | Bowie's Piano Man PDF eBook |
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Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
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ISBN | 9781781962688 |
Bowie's Piano Man
Title | Bowie's Piano Man PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford Slapper |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1617137375 |
(Book). Pianist Mike Garson was David Bowie's most frequent musician, on record and onstage throughout Bowie's life. They played over a thousand shows together between 1972 and 2004, and Garson is featured on over 20 of Bowie's albums. Bowie's Piano Man is the first-ever biography of Mike Garson, written by Clifford Slapper, a fellow pianist who also played for Bowie, working closely with him on his last-ever television appearance. The book explores the special relationship between Garson and Bowie, beginning with the extraordinary story of how Garson went overnight from playing in tiny jazz clubs to touring the world on arena rock tours with Bowie after one short phone call and audition. A noted master of jazz, classical, and other genres, Garson has composed thousands of original works and has taught countless students, acting as mentor to many. Bowie's Piano Man explores his roots and childhood in Brooklyn, his ongoing strong presence in the jazz world, and his collaborations with a huge range of other artists in addition to Bowie. Touring and recording with the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails are given in-depth attention, as is his approach to teaching and creating music. Explored in detail in particular is his commitment to improvisation as a form of composition, a manifestation of his more general dedication to living in the moment and always moving forward a trait he shared with Bowie.
Miracle
Title | Miracle PDF eBook |
Author | Leah Michelle Hamilton |
Publisher | Bookbaby |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781543932508 |
Miracle songbook has the scores for all of the songs of the much anticipated CD, Miracle, released April 1, 2018. This book will allow you to play these songs with piano and guitar scores, with a bonus for the song Reminiscing having the complete orchestral score. Included also are Leah's first 3 original songs she wrote, as well as coordinating scripture references for all. Enjoy singing and playing these songs while you add your own creative touches.
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Title | Billy Joel - Piano Man PDF eBook |
Author | Billy Joel |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1458430448 |
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). David Rosenthal has carefully arranged all the tracks from Joel's classic 1973 release to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements while transcribing those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. This book features the iconic title track and nine others: Ain't No Crime * (The) Ballad of Billy the Kid * Captain Jack * If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You) * Somewhere Along the Line * Stop in Nevada * Travelin' Prayer * Worse Comes to Worst * You're My Home.
David Bowie Made Me Gay
Title | David Bowie Made Me Gay PDF eBook |
Author | Darryl W. Bullock |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2017-11-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1468316257 |
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community’s struggle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today.
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
Title | David Bowie's Diamond Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Hendler |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2020-03-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1501336592 |
After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs. In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album of the 1970s.