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  | | The Wire Primers(1st Edition) A Guide to Modern Music by Rob Young, Contributor-Nick Cain, Contributor-Louise Gray, Contributor-David Keenan, Contributor-Mike Barnes, Contributor-Art Lange, Contributor-Stewart Lee, Contributor-Alan Licht, Contributor-Edwin Pouncey, Contributor-Ben Ratliff, Contributor-Simon Reynolds, Contributor-Peter Shapiro, Contributor-John Szwed, Contributor-Derek Walmsley, Contributor-Barry Witherden Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-427-5, ISBN: 1-84467-427-4 "An essential handbook to the most advanced modern music from the Bible of experimental sounds. Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the plan ..." |
 | | The Jazz Ear(1st Edition) Conversations over Music by Ben Ratliff Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Times Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8146-6, ISBN: 0-8050-8146-1 "An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz criticJazz 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, rendering ..." |
 | | Ursula Issue 3 by Mike Lala, Don Eyles, Ben Ratliff, Bob Nickas, Alison Gingeras, Carol Kino, Martha Rosler, Stefan Zweifel, Randy Kennedy Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2019 by Hauser & Wirth ISBN-13: 978-0-578-48506-5, ISBN: 0-578-48506-0 "The third issue of Hauser & Wirth’s magazine marks the anniversaries of the moon landing and the BauhausThe third issue of Ursula is full of time capsules. The cover commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Don Eyles, the pioneering software engineer who wrote the code that conveyed the lunar module safely to the surface that July day, sits down with Matthew Day Jackson, an old friend, to ponder the more transcendent aspec ..." |
 | | Every Song Ever(1st Edition) Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now by Ben Ratliff Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Penguin Group ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-686-2, ISBN: 1-84614-686-0 "'A remarkable new book ... goes leaping from Beethoven to Big Black, from Morton Feldman to Curtis Mayfield, identifying continuities while delighting in contrasts' Alex Ross, New YorkerFor the first time ever, we have all the music in the world to choose from. As Ben Ratliff, one of America's celebrated music critics, shows us, it's time to listen in a new way too. Opening our ears to unexpected connections, new experiences and l ..." |
 | | Music & Literature no. 8(1st Edition) by Eric Chevillard, Unsuk Chin, Mark Turner, Jordan Stump, Jeremy M. Davies, Alex Ross, Ben Ratliff, Lydia Salvayre, Alyson Waters, Daniel Medin, Madeleine Larue, Gaston Chaissac, Frederic Rebena Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2017 by Music & Literature, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-9888799-7-3, ISBN: 0-9888799-7-2 "More than two years in the making, Music & Literature no. 8 showcases the work of three artists who have renewed their inherited traditions modern literature, classical music, and jazz and brought innovation to their disciplines. Éric Chevillard, Unsuk Chin, and Mark Turner have been expanding the possibilities of their forms for decades, and the fruits of their unwavering efforts are on full display in the most extensive M&L to date. B ..." |
 | | Every Song Ever(Reprint) Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty by Ben Ratliff Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-11799-1, ISBN: 1-250-11799-2 "What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera―or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that we already have. Either way, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. The possibilities in this new age of listening overturn old assumptions about what it means to prope ..." |
 | | Every Song Ever(1st Edition) Twenty Ways to Listen to Music Now by Ben Ratliff Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Allen Lane ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-684-8, ISBN: 1-84614-684-4 "From one of America's celebrated critics, the definitive field guide to listening to music in the age of the Cloud. 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 has historically focus ..." |
 | | Every Song Ever Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty by Ben Ratliff 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-5359-7, ISBN: 1-4299-5359-4 "guitar: drums and, 188–89; in improvisation, 157–59; one-note solos for, 78; techniques of, 93 Günter, Bernhard, 62 Guthrie, Woody, 127 Haas, Georg Friedrich, 146–47, 148, 186 Haggard, Merle, 227–28 Haino, Keiji, 179–80 hal ( trance state), 54 Half Note club, 165 Hamad, Mike, 119 Hamilton, Kenneth, 40 Hampton, Lionel, 73, 79 Handel, George Frideric, 174 “Hand in Glove,” 223–24, 225 Hanslick, Eduard, 50–54, 154 “Haq Ali Ali Moula Ali ..." |
 | | Every Song Ever Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty by Ben Ratliff Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-27790-1, ISBN: 0-374-27790-7 "What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera―or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that we already have. Either way, we can listen to nearly anything, at any time. The possibilities in this new age of listening overturn old assumptions about what it means to prope ..." |
 | | Coltrane The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-26116-1, ISBN: 0-571-26116-7 "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 to this great and controversial music pioneer." |
 | | The Jazz Ear(1st Edition) Conversations over Music by Ben Ratliff Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by St. Martin's Griffin Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9086-4, ISBN: 0-8050-9086-X "An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz criticJazz 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, rendering ..." |
 | | Coltrane The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-9862-8, ISBN: 1-4299-9862-8 "Other than that, he was on his own, fanatically transcribing Coltrane solos from records, just as young musicians had done with Charlie Parker records twenty years before. The mechanical part, the notes, was the beginning of his studies; the rest of his life, he has been studying how to get at Coltrane's sound. Jamey Aebersold, the author and marketer of teach-yourself-improvisation books and records, produced his first jazz play-a ..." |
 | | Coltrane(Reprint) The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2008 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42778-8, ISBN: 0-312-42778-6 "John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become who he was? And what would a John Coltrane look like now--or are we looking for the wrong signs? In this deftly written, riveting study, "New York Times "jazz critic Ben Ratliff answers these questions and examines the life of Coltrane, the ..." |
 | | The Jazz Ear Conversations over Music by Ben Ratliff 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-5620-8, ISBN: 1-4299-5620-8 "PAUL MOTIAN Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961, Fantasy). The live sessions that helped rearrange small-group playing in jazz. The single CD may be all you need; it's also available as three unabridged CDs, with five different sets from the afternoon and evening of one day, called The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961. Keith Jarrett Quartet, Fort Yawuh (1973, Impulse). From Jarrett's often- overlooked mi ..." |
 | | Coltrane The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Faber And Faber Import ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23273-4, ISBN: 0-571-23273-6 |
 | | Coltrane the Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff Paperback, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-7394-9369-4, ISBN: 0-7394-9369-8 |
 | | Coltrane(1st Edition) The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12606-3, ISBN: 0-374-12606-2 "A major work about the great saxophonist—and about the state of jazz.What was the essence of John Coltrane’s achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What was it about his improvising, his bands, his compositions, his place within his era of jazz that left so many musicians and listeners so powerfully drawn to him? What would a John Coltrane look like now—or are we looking for the wrong signs?The acclaimed ..." |
 | | Really the Blues (New York Review Books Classics) by Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Ben Ratliff Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-945-1, ISBN: 1-59017-945-5 "Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. Really the Blues, the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at ..." |
 | | The New York Times Essential Library(1st Edition) Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings by Benn Ratliff, Ben Ratcliff Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2002 by Times Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7068-2, ISBN: 0-8050-7068-0 "A connoisseur's tour through the great American art formA Love Supreme. Miles Ahead. Brubeck Time. Yardbird Suite. The Sidewinder. For newcomers just beginning their library of recordings, and for longtime fans looking to deepen their understanding, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff offers an assertive, deeply knowledgeable collector's guide, full of opinions and insights on the one hundred greatest recorded works of jazz. From the ..." |
 | | Coltrane The Story of a Sound [Paperback] [Mar 03, 2011] Ratliff, Ben by Ben Ratliff Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23274-1, ISBN: 0-571-23274-4 "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 to this great and controversial music pioneer." |
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