€

Books 585 Items

Name: Dan Wriggins - Prince Of Grass
Brand: Dear Life
SKU: 1137389v1
Price: 19.99 EUR
Availability: PreOrder

Show Filter & Categories

Filter Results

Artist

A Tribe Called Quest

Aaron Lupton & Jeff Szpirglas

Abdul Qadim Haqq

Abuqadim Haqq

Action Bronson & Gabriele Stabile

Action Time Vision

Adam White

Adrian Shaughnessy & Tony Brook

Africadelic & Rush Hour Store Present Lemi Ghariokwu

Alan Ket

Alexander Rosso

Alexei Monroe

Alice Arnold

Alison Braun

Alison Mosshart

Allison Braun

Almut Klotz

Almut Klotz, Reverend Christian Dabeler

Amelia Troubridge

Amos Childs & Sam Barrett

Amy Fleisher Madden

and wander

Andre Jegodka

Andreas Mäckler

Andrew Emery

Andrew Morgan

Angel Badalamenti

Anne Hahn / Frank Willmann

Annie Leibovitz

Anthony DeCurtis

Anthony Raynolds

Arcade Fire

Arnd Schallenkammer, Gess One

Arne Zank

Arunski Toys

Aubrey Powell

Aya

Barney Hoskyns

Beate Bartel / Gudrun Gut / Bettina Köster

Beatrice Galilee

Ben Cardew

Ben Detrick & Andrew Kuo

Ben Murphy

Benjamin Bischof & Elmar Jäger (Hrsg.)

Benke Carlson / Hop Louie

Bernd Begemann

Bill Sassenberger

Bjarke Ingels, Beatrice Leanza, William Myers

Björk

Björn Almqvist & Tobias Barenthin Lindblad

Brian David Stevens

Brian Kayser & Bob Lipitch

Brian Peterson

Burgeramt X Stylefile

Bus 126

Cale Waddacor

Cam Cobb

Camp Lo

Carl-Hendrik Olsson & Stefan Kery

Carol D. Marsh

Caroline Jensen

Carsten Friedrichs

Castello-Cortes

Cat Power

Cati Porter

Charbel Haber

Charles Moriarty

Charles Peterson

Chris Barrows / Ben Weasel

Chris Bierlein

Chris Ganter

Chris Miles

Chris Murray And Barry Feinstein

Chris Richards

Christian Habermeier, Sebastian Jäger

Christian Pfluger

Christian Späth

Colors

Complex Media, Inc.

Cyril B. Jourdain

D'Angelo

Daisart

Dale Hope

Damon & Naomi With Kurihara

Dan Lish

Dan Nadel, Thomas Crow, Clare Lilley, Jason Schmidt

Dan Wriggins

Danger Dan

Daniel Decker

Daniel Kramer

Daniel Schwartz

David Corio

David Hoffman

David Sylvian

De Burkeman

Dead Moon, Szim, Eric Isaacson, Erin Yanke

deadHYPE

Dennis Burmesiter / Sascha Lange

Depeche Moder / Dennis Burmeister / Sascha Lange

Deyan Sudjic

Die Gruppe Oil

Diedrich Diederichsen

Dinu Logoz

DJ Semtex

Dominic Bradbury

Dominik Diamond & Jack Templeton

Donna Summer

Doug Chadwick

Dr. Todd Boyd

Duran Duran

Dylan Tomine

Edward Birzin Javier Abarca & Matthias Hübner

Edwin "Phade" Sacasa

Eilon Paz

Elisabeth Semmelhack

Elizabeth Semmelhack

Enrico Bonadio

Eric Goulden

Eric Pfeil

Ernesto Assante & Giulia De Amicis

Evgenia Arbugaeva & Piers Vitebsky

Faye Toogood, edited by Alistair O'Neill

Fehlfarben / Gunther Buskies / Jonas Engelmann

Fiona Bae

Format Photographers

Francesco Spampinato

Francoise Cactus

Frank Apunkt Schneider

Frank Spilker

Frederik Dörfler-Trummer

Futura

Gareth Davis

Gary Lucas

Gay Talese & Phil Stern

George Wright

Gereon Klug

Gerrick Kennedy

Gestalten

Gestalten & Alex Roddie

Gestalten & Benevento

Gestalten & Cam Honan

Gestalten & Chris Burkard

Gestalten & Gaspard Konrad

Gestalten & Grace Banks

Gestalten & Irwin Wong

Gestalten & Jordan Gibbons

Gestalten & Kari Molvar

Gestalten & Katharina Charpian

Gestalten & Luke Gartside

Gestalten & Michelle Lu

Gestalten & Monocle

Gestalten & Parks Project

Gestalten & Paul d'Orléans

Gestalten & Santiago Rodriguez Tarditi

Gestalten & Stuart Humphryes

Gestalten, Francesca Gavin & Alain Bieber

Gideon Schwartz

Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker

Glen E. Friedman

Graeme Thomson

Graham Sharpe

Grant Ellis

Greg Prato

Greil Marcus

Gunnar Leue

Hannah Koelmeyer

Hans Werner Holzwarth & Louise Kugelberg

Harald Grosskopf

Harold Heath

Harry Benson

Harry Harrison

Hartcopy

Heartworm Reader

Heiko Hilker / Alexander Pehlemann / Andreas Ulrich / Jörg Wagner

Hendrik Bolz

Henk Schiffmacher & Noel Daniel

Highsnobiety X Gestalten

Hiroshi Fuijwara

Ian Castello-Cortes

Ian Helliwell

Ian Preece

Ingo Scheel

Irene Schampaert

Isis Aquarian / Jodi Wille

Issa Franke

J Dilla

Jacques Chassaing & Peter Moore

Jamel Shabazz

James Gavin

Jan Kage (Yaneq)

Jan Lankisch

Jan Reetze

Jane Simon

Janelle Monae

Janette Beckman

Janine Wiedel

Jason Barlow With Guy Bird

Jason Shelowitz

Jeff Apter

Jeff Drake

Jeff Staple

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco

Jens Rachut

Jesse Valencia

Jill Furmanovsky & Aubrey Powell

Jim Abbott

Jim Marshall, Keith Richards & Joe Selvin

Jim Ottewill

Jimi Tenor

Joaquim Paulo & Julius Wiedemann

Joe Muggs

Joe Steinhardt & Marissa Paternoster

Joel McIver

Joel Selvin

Joey Seeman & Chris Potash

John Bauer

John Benton-Harris

John Blaney

John Claridge

John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees

John Foster

John Lennon & Yoko Ono

John Mellencamp And Dr. Louis A. Zona And David L. Shirey And Bob Guccione Jr.

John Prine

John Riordan

Johnny Marr

Jon ''Bermuda'' Schwartz

Jonas Engelmann

Jonas Höschl

Jonathan Olivares

Jorge Socarras & Mel Odom

Jörkk Mechenbier / Lasse Paulus

Jörn Morisse & Felix Gebhard

José Moura

Joseph Inniss, Ralph Miller, Peter Stadden

Joshua

Joshua Cunningham

Joy Press / Simon Reynolds

JR And Julie Pugeat

Juliane Streich

Junior Tomlin

Justin Patrick Moore

Justin Tinsley

Kadir Van Lohuizen

Kate Bailey

Kate Blandford

Katharina Holzmann & Sascha Ehlert (Hrsg)

Katja Peglow /Jonas Engelmann

Katrin Swatenbroux, Wided Bouchrika & Joy Phillips

Kaws With Daniel Birnbaum & Eugenie Tsai

Keith Blanchard

Kelefa Sanneh

Ken Burns, David Lauren

Kendrick Lamar

Kersty Grether

Kevin Kemter

Kikan Massara

Kim Gordon

Kim McCoy & Willard Bascom

King Adz & Wilma Stone

Klaus Klemp

Knarf Rellöm

Koji Takahashi

Kouhei Matsunaga

Lance Scott Walker & Johan Kugelberg

Larissa Kikol

Lauren Wilford & Ryan Stevenson

Laurent Bouzereau

Laurent Fintoni

Lawrence Cohn

Lena Platonos

Leonard Hieronymi

Lisa Leone

Lisa S. Johnson With Brad Tolinski And Suzie Quatro

Lisane Basquiat, Jeanine Heriveaux, Nora Fitzpatrick With Ileen Gallagher

Lord K2 & Lois Stavsky

Lou Reed

Lubomyr Melnyk

Lucy O'Brien

Madvillain (MF DOOM & Madlib)

Magnus Englund & Leyla Daybelge

Magnus Frederiksen

Magnus Frederiksen & Klara Lindberg

Magnus Resch

Malcolm Mclaren, Andrew Wilson, Paul Stolper & Young Kim

Marc Jacobs

Marcnesium

Marco Crescenzi

Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart

Mark 563

Mark 563 & Björn Almqvist

Mark Angelo Harrison

Mark Blake

Mark Davidson & Parker Fishel

Mark Holborn

Mark Holborn & Dimitri Levas

Markus Göres, Maurice Summen

Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant

Martha Cooper & Ninja K

Martin Ander

Martin Büsser

Martin James

Marty Perez

Mary Wilson & Mark Bego

Masala Noir

Matt Anniss

Matt Taylor

Matt Zoller Seitz

Matteo Torcinovich

Matthew Yokobosky

Matthias Wermke

Mau Mau

Mega DNS

Metro // Star

Michael Büsselberg & Dirk Von Lowtzow

Michael Jackson

Michael Klausman

Michael Ochs

Mick Rock

Mike Amiri & Wes Lang

Mike Evans

Mike Mcgonigal / Galaxie 500

Minnie Ripperton

Mudpuppy

Naomi Parry

Neil Martinson

Never Sleep

Nick Cave & Sean O'hagan

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Nick Sadler

Nicklas Baschek

Nicola Bardola

Nigel Sylvester

Noel Meek & Mattin

Nora Gallagher & Lisa Myers

Norbert Wolf

Norma Schneider

O.W. Himmel

Oli Freke

Orhun Öner

Ortofon

Owen Hopkins

Palace Skateboards / Lev Tanju With Sam Buchan-Watts

Patagonia

Patrick Baty

Patrick Cowley

Paul Burgess & Louise Colbourne

Paul Du Noyer

Paul Duncan

Paul Hanford

Paul Purgas

Paul Terzulli

Paul Wainwright

Paulina Czienskowski

Pearl Jam

Peski Studio

Pet Shop Boys / Jan-Niklas Jäger

Peter Anderson

Peter Guralnick / Colin Escott

Peter Schouten

Peter Stelzig

Phaidon Editors

Pharrell Williams

Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)

Philip Wolmuth

Phill Savidge

Phillip Leeds

Pogus Caesar

Portishead

Qian Jing Xi

Questlove

Quincy Jones

Quintron

R.J. Wheaton

Rachel Demy With Death Cab For Cutie

Raedy

Rare Soul

Ray Castle

Rei Shito

Reinhard Kleist

Reuel Golden

Reuel Golden, Pearl Cleage

Rian Hughes

Richard Davis

Richard Havers

Richard King

Rick Rubin

Rihanna

Riikka Kuittinen

Rio Reiser

Rob Ford

Robbie Busch, Jonathan Kirby & Julius Wiedemann

Robert Cremer

Robert Dimery

Robert Gwisdek (Käptn Peng)

Robert Nippoldt

Robert Nippoldt & Boris Pofalla

Robert Pollard

Robert Winter

Rod Green

Rod Shone

Rolf & Mette Hay

Roxy Music

Rudy VanderLans

Sal Maida / Mitchell Cohen & Friends

Sam Cooke

Sam Grawe

Sam Lubell

Sandu Publications

Sarah Eick, Tanja Dückers

Sarah Ginn

Sarah Mower

Sebastian Krumbiegel

Sharna Jackson

Shawn Reynaldo

Shea Serrano

Shea Serrano & Bun B

Shinya Matsuyama

Shirley Baker

Sid Griffin

Sigur Ros

Silvi Bonne

Simon Reynolds

Simon Wood

Slow Pete

Sneaker Freaker

Sofie Björgren-Näse

Sonja Vogel

Sookee, Gazal Köpf

Sophie Bramly

Sophie Walker

Soul Jazz Records Presents/Buch

Spoke Art Gallery, Wes Anderson, Matt Zoller Seitz

Stephen Ellcock

Steve Hammond

Steve Wide

Steven Vass

Stevie Chick

Stuart Murdoch & Pamela Tait

Sub Opus 36 e.V.

Suicide

Susan Compo

Syd Sheldon

Tatehata, Hoptman, Kultermann & Taft

Ted Fox

Terry Burrows

Testcard

The Beatles

The Jesus And Mary Chain

The Microphones

The Museum Of Graffiti

The National

The Pharcyde

The Secret DJ

The Shadow Ring

Thees Uhlman

Thomas Jerome Seabrook

Thomas Mars, Deck D'arcy, Laurent Brancowitz & Christian Mazzalai (Phoenix)

Thomas Sweertvaegher & Ed Templeton

Thorsten Nagelschmidt

Tim Hinely & Friends

Tine Fetz / Daniel Scheider

Toan & Gilles Roudiere

Tobias Rapp

Tom De Geeter

Ton Steine Scherben

Tony Davis

Tony Higgins & Mike Peden

Tony Rettman

Torch

Trance Farmers & Kourtney Roy

Tresor: True Stories

Trevor Crafts

Trevor Miller

Trio/Gunther Buskies/Jonas Engelmann

Tristan Manco, Lost Art & Caleb Neelon

Ultan Guilfoyle

Unorthodox Styles

Uwe Von Trotha

Uzi

V.A.

Various & Gould

Vikki Tobak

Virgil Abloh

Viviengoldman

Volker Barsch

Wang Shaopiang

Wesley Eisold

Whiz Limited And Hiroaki Shitano

Will Oldham & Lori Damiano

William A. Ewing & Holly Roussell

William Buckholz

William Claxton

William J R Curtis

William Smalley

Wolfgang Seidel

Yan Morvan

Yvon Chouinard

Yvon Chouinard, Jeff Johnson, Chris Malloy

Label / Brand

1984 Publishing

1UP

20|20|20

33 1/3

Abrams

Africadelic

Akashic Books

and wander

Anthology

Antilopen Geldwäsche

Aurum Press Ltd

Ba Da Bing!

Bamboo Dart Press

BBE Music

Blank Forms Editions

Bloomsbury

Blumenbar

BOOKDREX2 SOFTCOVER

Browse Gallery

Cafe Royal

Cafe Royal Books

Canongate

Castle Face

Chopped Herring

Chronicle Books

Crosstown Rebels

Daisart

Dark Entries

Das Wetter

DCV

deadHYPE

Dear Life

Dokument

Don Giovanni

Drag City

Eden Books

Edition Klara

Edition Olms

Ele-King Books

Erased Tapes

Exact Change

Fang Bomb

Flee Project

Fluke Publishing

Full One

GBV Inc.

Gestalten

Gingko Press

Goner

Goodfellas Edizioni

Goodwill

Grönland

Halvmall

Hardhitta Gallery

Hartcopy

Heartworm Press

Hidden Notes

Holuzam

Hozac

Hyperdub

Iikk

IIKKI

Innervisions

Kabul Fire

Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Korbinian

Korero

Kunstmuseum Reutlingen & Druckkontor Saar

Lannoo

Lanoo

Luster

Macmillan

Masala Noir

Mechanical Reproductions

Minor Matters Books

Moon Juice Stomper

Moriarty Publishing

Mudpuppy Press

Never Sleep

Oi Jazz

Oldcastle Books

Ortofon

Other People

P.W. Elverum & Sun

Patagonia

Phaidon

Possible Books

Possible Books / Menetekel

Princeton Architectual Press

Publikat

Racoon

Rare Bird Books

Recital

Revelation

Rizzoli

Rotary Head

Ryland Peters & Small

Sacred Bones

Seance Centre

Selfmadehero

Seltmann & Söhne

Seltmann Publishers

Shelter Press

Sinecure

Smith Street Books

Soul Jazz

Soul Jazz Books

Strzelecki Books

Studio M.O.G.

Subliminal Sounds

Taschen

Testcard

Thames & Hudosn

Thames & Hudson

The state51 Conspiracy

Third Man Books

Tresor

V&A

Velocity Press

Ventil

Ventil Verlag

Ventil Verlag/Tapete

Verbrecher Verlag

Verbrecher Vrlag

Vinyl On Demand

Waxmann

[transcript]

No Bonus Coins

...

5 6 7

...

6 7

...

6 7

Dan Wriggins

Prince Of Grass

19,99 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-07-19

Prince of Grass is the debut poetry collection from Dan Wriggins, songwriter and frontman of the band Friendship. Loving and absurd, Wriggins' poems are overflowing cauldrons of metaphor, always inviting, always in motion. For fans of James Tate, C.D. Wright, David Berman, and pie for breakfast. Dan Wriggins is a writer and musician from Maine. He records and tours solo and with the band Friendship. His debut poetry collection, Prince of Grass, is coming in July of 2024 from Dear Life Records. He lives in Philadelphia with his dog, Roy.

Go to Item

Eric Goulden

A Dysfunctional Success - The Wreckless Eric Manual

22,00 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-06-28

In "A Dysfunctional Success" Eric Goulden writes with an acute eye for detail about growing up in the 60s and 70s in suburban South East England, discovering music and girls; life as an art student in the frozen north eastern town of Hull; the formation and dissolution of bands with desperate equipment, a homemade ethos and not much idea; his move to London in 1976 and subsequent recording debut on the newly formed Stiff Record label. This is an honest coming of age story from both sides of instant pop success: bands, squalid flats, menial jobs, making records, the rise to the point of fame and falling off into poverty and alcoholism in Thatcher"s Britain, where Goulden ultimately survived the 1980"s to achieve his own kind of success. Twenty-one years after its original publication, in a time when pop stars telling their own hard stories was a comparative rarity, A Dysfunctional Success rings truer than ever, reminding readers how we all come from somewhere, pay a high price for our dreams, and enjoy modest glories in return for staying the course. "I think I was hoping for insight into the early Stiff Records days, which I didn"t get. What I got was much better, and a great deal more interesting: a shambling, acutely observed, very funny-sad-true-sharp autobiography ..." Neil Gaiman

Go to Item

Bill Sassenberger

Toxic Shock Record - Assasin O Mediocrity

22,99 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-06-14

Toxic Shock is a full-color, 200-page book that chronicles the history of the punk record store/mail order enterprise and groundbreaking record label Toxic Shock from its origins in 1980 in the grimy suburbs of Pomona, CA to its demise in Tucson, AZ in 2014. Loaded with many rare photos and gig flyers, and through a combination of a very personal biography, oral history and extensive imagery, the book covers the many twists and turns that made Toxic Shock an often misunderstood punk rock institution. It also covers how the death rock band Christian Death inspired the co-owners to create the record label. Graphic artists such as Pushead, Vince Rancid and Jim Blanchard lent their work to its earliest label releases and mail order catalogs. It documents Toxic Shock's involvement with the bands Decry, Zero Boys, Corrosion of Conformity, Dayglo Abortions, Skinner box, the Hickoids, th’Inbred, Skin Yard, Sloppy Seconds, Treepeople plus tour diaries with Italy's Raw Power. Toxic Shock features cover art and several illustrations from graphic artist Brian Walsby, plus several never published before photos from the iconic Ed Colver. The book covers the trials and tribulations of running a totally independent record store for 34 years and an in-depth oral history from former employees and musicians from the Toxic Shock roster—such as Decry, Modern Industry, Manson Youth, Massacre Guys, Human Therapy, Raw Power, Peace Corpse, Pillsbury Hardcore, Hullabaloo, House of Large Sizes and more!

Go to Item

Andre Jegodka

Kommst Du Mit In Den Alltag? (Lebenswelten Von Musiker*innen)

16,00 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-06-14

Go to Item

Sebastian Krumbiegel

Meine Stimme - Zwischen Haltung Und Unterhalt

20,00 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-07-05

Go to Item

Charles Peterson

Nirvana Signed Edition

99,99 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-07-05

Limited edition signed by the author.

For millennia, “nirvana” has been a term associated with belief systems of the Indian subcontinent. But in 1988, a band from a small coastal town in Washington state decided to create some new associations with this word . . . through their music.

Active for just six years, Nirvana left an indelible mark on the late twentieth century that remains visible today. Photographer and self-described “music fanatic” Charles Peterson, a fellow twenty-something from the suburbs of Seattle, was present with his camera as a genre took form, and his images have become synonymous with the sounds, styles, movement and attitude known as grunge.

Charles Peterson’s Nirvana, in the tradition of many great documentary photobooks, expands beyond Peterson’s iconic images of the band seen repeatedly over the last thirty years (on album covers, in magazines, and in dozens of compilation books and exhibitions focused on this music and its birth era) to highlight gems never before published. Over a five-year photo edit, Peterson looked at each one of thousands of frames, considering what drew him to Nirvana in the first place—their songs. He honed in on the compositions that stimulated visceral memories of their live performances.

The resulting selection of photographs and their carefully constructed sequence mash up venues and years, suffering and the sublime, to arrive at a visual experience that one cannot help but also feel, and hear.

Book design by Jeff Kleinsmith.

9 x 12.25 inches vertical; ~90 black and white photographs; 168 pages;. Hardcover. Foreword by Krist Novoselic.

Charles Peterson (b.1964, Longview, Washington) is internationally known for his photographs of the Seattle music scene of the late eighties and nineties. He began making photographs while a student at Bothell High School, and then went on to study photography at the University Washington, where he first met as friends many of his future subjects.

Peterson’s distinct visual style and early work for Sub Pop Records became an important signifier of the phenomenon known as grunge.

His photographs have been featured in numerous publications, as well exhibited in group and solo exhibitions around the world. They are included in many private collections, and the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum and MoPOP.

Krist Novoselic (b. 1965, Compton, California) is co-founder of Nirvana.

Nirvana originated in Aberdeen, Washington in the late 1980s through the energies of Novoselic and Kurt Cobain. They were joined by drummers including Chad Channing (1988–1990) and David Grohl (1990–1994). Nirvana’s live performances, music videos, and albums Bleach (1989), Nevermind (1991), Incesticide (1992), In Utero (1993) and MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) made their music a defining component of the late twentieth century internationally.

Go to Item

Tony Higgins & Mike Peden

Free And Modern Jazz Albums From Japan 1954 - 1988

99,99 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-06-28

- 400 page hardcover large format book - Includes CD with 10 Japanese Jazz tracks - Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden - Only 2000 copies printed - Largest picture book on Japanese Jazz ever printed - First and only picture book devoted to Japanese Jazz covers to be produced outside Japan - Extra sections on non-Japanese artists and Blue Note albums produced exclusively for the Japanese market - Includes intro by Terumasa Hino plus articles by Yusuke Ogawa, Mats Gustafsson, Tony Higgins and interview with Tohru Aizawa - DJ J Jazz Top Tens from around the world BBE Music is thrilled to present J Jazz: Free and Modern Jazz From Japan 1954-1988, a remarkable large-format book covering some of the deepest, rarest, and most innovative jazz music released anywhere in the post-war era. Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, co-curators of BBE Music's acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series, the book also features a foreword by Japanese jazz icon, Terumasa Hino.

This is the first time a book of this type has been published outside of Japan and the first anywhere of this size and scale. It is a unique collection of over 500 albums of free and modern jazz released in Japan during a period of radical transformation and constant reinvention. An era that saw Japan return from the ravages of World War Two to become a global economic power and emerge as both a technological leader and an international cultural force.

Through a unique gallery of albums, J Jazz charts the development of jazz in Japan from the first stirrings of the modern jazz scene in the mid to late 1950s and on through the hard bop and modal jazz of the 1960s. It steers the reader into the radical directions of the 1970s when free jazz, fusion, post-bop, and jazz-funk opened up a growing number of Japanese jazz artists to a new global audience before consolidating in the mid to late 1980s with a musical scene that laid the path for the contemporary jazz generation to follow.

Over 500 full-colour sleeves from many of the leading names in Japanese jazz sit alongside rare and private pressings that tell a story of constant change and musical exploration. J Jazz includes profiles of several leading record labels such as East Wind, Frasco, King Records, and Nippon Columbia as well as critical independents such as Three Blind Mice, ALM, and Aketa’s Disk. J Jazz includes interviews with celebrated jazz photographer Tadayuki Naito, and pianist Tohru Aizawa, bandleader on the totemic spiritual jazz album, Tachibana Vol 1, as well as free-jazz record collector and jazz musician Mats Gustafsson.

The book also features a chapter on albums by non-Japanese artists that only received a Japanese release, with collectible, rare, and obscure releases by figures such as Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, and Art Blakey. J Jazz includes Japanese jazz charts from some of the world's leading jazz DJs including Gilles Peterson, Toshio Matsuura, Paul Murphy, and Shuya and Yoshihiro Okino. Among the specialist content is a feature on obi strips by record dealer and Japanese jazz expert, Yusuke Ogawa, plus a special article on Japanese Blue Note albums.

Across its 300-plus pages, J Jazz includes a detailed introduction contextualising the music, tracing the story of Japan's fascination with jazz back before the war. It also features biographical information on many of the key artists involved in shaping the post- war Japanese jazz scene including Sadao Watanabe, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Masabumi Kikuchi, Masahiko Togashi, Terumasa Hino, Yosuke Yamashita, Fumio Itabashi, Masayuki Takayanagi, Takeo Moriyama, Isao Suzuki, and many more.

Go to Item

Joe Steinhardt & Marissa Paternoster

Merriment

27,99 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-07-05

As many of us do, Mack is having a hard time coping with life in New Jersey. Watching her friends figure their lives out while she is stuck living at home, Mack is looking for any kind of lifeline out of her Mom’s house and into the City where she is convinced she will be happy. Then again, it's hard for anyone to be happy these days, a fact her mother will not let her forget. And what's worse: she thinks she might have committed a murder. And that maybe, just maybe, the FBI is spying on her?

Merriment follows Mack on her quest for happiness and/or sanity, through the horrors of life, as she navigates existential dread, real life dread, and all the dread in between.

Go to Item

Sal Maida / Mitchell Cohen & Friends

The White Label Promo Preservation Society: 100 Flop Albums You Need To Know

43,99 €*

Incl. VAT plus Shipping Costs

Add to Cart Coming Soon Sold out Currently not available Not Enough Coins

Preorder shipping from 2024-06-28

HoZac Books is proud to present The White Label Promo Preservation Society: 100 Flop Albums You Ought to Know, written and compiled by Sal Maida and Mitchell Cohen, who have recruited for their “society” a gang of esteemed music obsessives: musicians, label executives, and journalists who chose favorite albums from the 1960s and 1970s to rave about and expound upon. The only criterion was that the albums never made the top 100 on Billboard’s LP Top 200 (although in a few cases, they did quite well on the R&B or country chart). The selection ranges from east coast vocal-group harmony to punk and metal, from superstars like The Who and the Beach Boys to virtual unknowns. As Sal and Mitchell write in the book’s introduction, “These are the albums you might not read about, except here. No one needs to tell you why Pet Sounds, Revolver or Blonde On Blonde are essential parts of any decent record collection, or guide you towards classics – or even somewhat lesser efforts – by the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Or which Pink Floyd album is indispensable (hint: the debut; you can stop right there). Although we have strong opinions about pantheon artists like Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye, and are happy to share those views with anyone in earshot, that isn’t what this book is about. We aren’t here to challenge or endorse rock orthodoxy. Neither is the mission to, once again, assert the brilliance of Skip Spence’s Oar, of such artists as Nick Drake, Big Star, and the Velvet Underground, whose influence, despite the lack of any commercial success in their time, has been thoroughly – one might even say exhaustively – documented elsewhere.” To tell help this story, Sal and Mitchell called on an impressive team of guest essayists: Lenny Kaye, Russ Titelman, Amy Rigby, Brian Koppelman, Dennis Diken, Bebe Buell, Jim Farber, Susan Whitall, Steve Shelley, Phil King, Ira Robbins, Billy Altman, Marshall Crenshaw, Peter Holsapple, Wreckless Eric, Peter Keepnews, Miriam Linna, Joe McEwen, and a cast of dozens.

Go to Item

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

...

5 6 7