Títulos en Compositores y músicos

In Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston. Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic and talented figure who...

The emotional stories behind Delta Goodrem’s sixth studio album. This audiobook features acoustic teasers from the Bridge Over Troubled Dreams album. In her first-ever book, Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem shares the intimate stories behind each of the tracks on her sixth studio...

Primera biografía en lengua castellana de la más grande cantante de jazz que transformó la canción popular norteamericana A Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), The First Lady of Jazz, se la conoce y venera por habernos permitido gozar de una de las voces más portentosas, versátiles y amadas de todos los tiempos don del que dan fe sus cinco docenas de álbumes en estudio, un sinfín de grabaciones en directo y casi trescientos singles.

La facoltà dello stupore: è questo il nucleo attorno al quale orbita l'intera esperienza artistica di Franco Battiato, la matrice che accomuna tutti i brani della sua vastissima produzione. La sua musica è un dono, un invito a smarrirsi per poi ritrovarsi; è un'esortazione a sperimentare continue incursioni in un altrove sconosciuto, negli infiniti "mondi lontanissimi" che possono aprirsi lungo il cammino delle nostre vite.

«Il destino mi ha portato la musica, la grande tradizione napoletana e soprattutto le grandi canzoni umoristiche.» Renzo Arbore nel cuore ha da sempre Napoli, il luogo che lo ha ispirato come cantautore e come intrattenitore nel corso della sua lunga e brillante carriera. In queste pagine racconta se stesso attraverso la più intensa delle sue passioni: la canzone napoletana. Ripercorre così origini ed evoluzione di un genere intramontabile grazie alla rievocazione di artisti (alcuni dei quali conosciuti direttamente) come Maldacea.

Tras el fallecimiento de su padre, Rodrigo González, en el terremoto de 1985, Amanda Lalena Escalante, de seis años, se embarca junto con su madre en un avión con destino a la Ciudad de México, dando inicio a esta narración autobiográfica en la que Amanda, desde una profunda intimidad y honestidad, comparte su vida en momentos conmovedora y en otros dolorosa. En estas páginas, recorreremos su infancia marcada por la muerte de su padre y la compleja relación con su madre; las carencias económicas y emocionales que padeció.

What happens when Paul Simon, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in music history, and Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author and podcast host, sit down together, with a tape recorder and a guitar? Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is part memoir, part investigation, and unlike any creative portrait you’ve ever heard before.

Born into a family of five, Frank Bello grew up in difficult circumstances. His father abandoned his wife and children. Left with no male role model, Frank found inspiration in heavy metal bass players, following their example and forging a career with Anthrax from his early teens - first as a roadie, and then as the group's bass player.

By the mid-1980s, singer-songwriter John Hiatt had been dropped from three record labels, burned through two marriages, and had fallen deep into substance abuse. It took a stint in rehab and a new marriage to inspire him, a producer, and an A&R man to have a little faith. By February 1987, he was back in the studio on a shoestring budget with a hand-picked supergroup consisting of Ry Cooder on guitar, Nick Lowe on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums, recording what would become his masterpiece, Bring the Family.

With Chris Bell at the center of the Big Star universe, this book carefully reveals the production of the band's masterful 1972 debut LP, #1 Record, for Ardent/Stax Records. Despite stellar reviews, the record suffered abysmal sales. Soon after, toxic personality conflicts and turmoil tore the band apart while Bell battled drug abuse and depression.

In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career with the Marine Girls had just begun, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by activism and agitprop theatre, lesbian punk bands and rock 'n' roll love affairs. Morrison came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn, a strong female role model in a male dominated industry. They both faced a chauvinist music media wanting them to behave to type.

Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles explores the artistic life of Tom Petty through his career-long relationship with Los Angeles and the many colorful characters and venues that inspired him and his music - including his work with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash, Roger McGuinn, Leon Russell, Rick Rubin, and Del Shannon.

Russian composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential subversion. The Sound of Utopia offers a vivid portrait of Soviet musicians and composers struggling to create art in this climate of terror. Some successfully toed the ideological line, diluting their work in the process; others ended up facing the Gulag or even death.

Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called "the only jazz recluse" has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist.

Memorias de Joni Mitchell a través de sus conversaciones con Malka Marom y de la relectura comentada por ambas de las letras de las canciones de Mitchell. Una exploración íntima de la vida y la obra de la cantautora Joni Mitchell -nombre artístico al que atiende (y tras el que se oculta) Roberta Joan Anderson- a través de las letras de sus canciones, de largas y profundas conversaciones sobre su obra musical, su poética y sus creaciones pictóricas. Cuando en 1973 se encomendó a la también cantautora Malka Marom que entrevistara a Joni Mitchell.

"Pocos han logrado un acercamiento tan elevado y fiel a su realidad de músico de este mundo. Pocos, además, con los avatares y la voluptuosidad tan propios de ese universo que compartieron, música y amistad mediante, el autor, Oscar López Ruiz, y el fantástico protagonista de su libro"...

La Academia de Letras de Suecia nos ha enviado un mensaje contundente: "The times they are a-changing" —Los tiempos están cambiando— y hace llegar esta señal de los nuevos tiempos con la entrega del Premio Nobel de Literatura a Bob Dylan por "haber creado una nueva expresión poética...

Named one of the world's great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield (1943-1981) remains beloved by fans nearly 40 years after his untimely death. Taking listeners backstage, onstage, and into the recording studio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting stories behind Bloomfield's work in the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the mesmerizing Electric Flag, as well as the Super Session album with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills, Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, and soundtrack work with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson.

Nació el 1 de marzo de 1810 en Zelazowa Wola, cerca de Varsovia. Su padre era francés y su madre polaca, se inició en el estudio del piano a los cuatro años y a los ocho ya ofrecía un concierto privado en Varsovia. Su primera obra publicada data de 1817. Dio sus primeros conciertos el año...

"Más de veinte años después de la publicación de Verdad tropical –autobiografía del genial Caetano Veloso y precioso testimonio sobre el tropicalismo y la contracultura de la segunda mitad del siglo XX–, Marea presenta una nueva edición revisada y con un prólogo escrito especialmente...