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Jazz Audiobooks

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    The History of Bones

    A Memoir

    by John Lurie ...
    Narrated by John Lurie ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 3 min

    **The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie“A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York Times**In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Sonny Rollins - Extended interview

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    32 min

    Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Sonny Rollins at the Kennedy Center to talk about his life as a saxophonist and composer. In this excerpt of their conversation, Rollins talks about what other jazz greats have meant to him. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section: The Complete Series 1-3

    The BBC Radio 4 comedy show

    by Alex Horne ...
    Narrated by Alex Horne, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    Alex Horne and his special guests bring together stand-up and live music in a free-wheeling and spontaneous combination.Each episode sees Alex, his band and guests explore a different topic. These range from love to technology, the seasons to the body.In this collection of the complete series 1-3 Alex is joined by comedians including David O’Doherty, Isy Suttie, Kevin Eldon, Phill Jupitus, Matt ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis

    A Joe Bev Musical Sound Portrait

    Unabridged

    59 min

    Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others. They discuss the origins of jazz and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

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    Satchmo Blows Up the World

    Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War

    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Space Is the Place

    The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

    by John Szwed ...
    Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 55 min

    Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz. John Szwed's Space is the Place is the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    Music

    A Subversive History

    by Ted Gioia ...
    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 55 min

    "A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. ... Read more

    $57.99 AUD

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    My Amy

    The Life We Shared

    by Tyler James ...
    Narrated by Tyler James ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    Written with a searing honesty and published for the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse's death, My Amy is an evocative portrait of unbreakable lifelong friendship – and a devastating study into fame, addiction and self-sabotage.Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself. He is Tyler James, Amy’s best friend from the age of thirteen. They met at stage school as two ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Over the Top and Back

    The remarkable autobiography from a national treasure

    by Sir Tom Jones ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Pryce ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Over the Top and Back by Tom Jones, read by Jonathan Pryce.In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Sinatra, to Robbie Williams, Van Morrison and Jessie J, across every imaginable genre, from rock and pop to country, blues and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Holding the Note

    Writing On Music

    by David Remnick ...
    Narrated by David Remnick, Matt Godfrey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    ‘Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious’ The TimesThis audio edition is read by the author, David Remnick, and Matt Godfrey.The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Easily Slip into Another World

    A Life in Music

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR*, The New Yorker***Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

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    Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten - Spezial, Folge 2

    Die Stimme als Jazzinstrument

    by Ernst Weber ...
    Narrated by Willi Resetarits ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten - Spezial

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    Wir schreiben das Jahr 1932. Cab Calloway, der Bandleader und Sänger, ist einer der bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten in der amerikanischen Musikszene. Das breite Publikum kennt ihn weniger wegen der Qualität seiner Band, sondern als den „Hi-De-Ho-Man“, der in seine Gesangstexte immer wieder diese paar charakteristischen Silben einbaut... ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

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    Gentleman of Jazz

    A Life in Music

    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 49 min

    This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time.Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories of the music in his parents’ church and his early piano lessons. As he learned classical technique, Lewis ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Jason Moran 'Promotes the Abstract' in Jazz

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    An emerging jazz innovator and the new artistic director at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, musician Jason Moran uses song to promote thought, therapy, consciousness and creativity. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Moran about his efforts to create more appreciators of the arts in his new role. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten, Folge 6

    Traditionelles und Nostalgisches

    by Ernst Weber ...
    Narrated by Willi Resetarits ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    Die amerikanische Musikszene wurde in der zweiten Hälfte der dreißiger Jahre eindeutig vom Swing-Stil beherrscht. Die Big Bands in den Tanzhallen und die kleinen Swing-Combos in den Clubs boten nicht nur stimmungsvolle Unterhaltungsmusik, dort wie da waren auch großartige Solisten am Werk. Die Arrangements in den großen Bands ließen immer wieder auch die Stars der Ensembles zu Wort kommen, und in ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

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    No Beethoven

    An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report

    by Peter Erskine ...
    Narrated by Peter Erskine ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    NO BEETHOVEN chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. NO BEETHOVEN includes chapters dedicated ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rhythm Man

    Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America

    Narrated by James Fouhey ...
    Series series Cultural Biographies

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-39) was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the "Savoy King," who reigned at Harlem's world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Along with the likes of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Cab Calloway, Webb helped create the popular dance and music culture, known as Swing, that swept the United States during and after the Great ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten, Folge 10

    Die Episode des kalifornischen Jazz

    by Ernst Weber ...
    Narrated by Willi Resetarits ...
    Series Audiobook 10 - Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten

    Unabridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Es war Anfang der 1950er Jahre, als plötzlich die kalifornische Jazzszene ins Zentrum des Interesses der Jazzliebhaber in aller Welt rückte. Ein neues Zauberwort war geboren: „West Coast Jazz“, geprägt vom Jazzkritiker Stanley Dance. Die Fachleute sind sich heute noch nicht ganz einig, ob darunter ein eigener Jazzstil zu verstehen ist oder nur ein Ableger des „Cool Jazz“, aber das ist eine rein ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

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    Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten, Folge 8

    Mit dem Bebop in die Zukunft des Jazz

    by Ernst Weber ...
    Narrated by Willi Resetarits ...
    Series Audiobook 8 - Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    “Things To Come” – so war eine Aufnahme des Trompeters Dizzy Gillespie mit seiner Big Band vom Juli 1946 benannt: “Die Dinge, die da kommen sollten”, das war nicht bloß ein beliebiger Titel, sondern eher schon eine programmatische Ansage. Der neue musikalische Stil, den man Bebop nannte, bedeutete den Aufbruch in eine neue Ära des Jazz. Dessen waren sich die namhaften Vertreter dieser Stilrichtung ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $7.99 AUD

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    Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano, The

    A view from Richie Beirach taken from conversations with Michael Lake

    Narrated by Michael Lake ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    Jazz is a language and that language has evolved throughout the past 100 years. The piano is the heart of the jazz harmonic language and as such, the grandmaster jazz piano players throughout history have had the greatest influence on the evolution of jazz.In this audiobook, Richie Beirach - himself one of the great jazz stylists - describes in detail the distinguishing characteristics of the 10 ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Playboy Swings

    How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music

    by Patty Farmer ...
    Narrated by Denise Shearer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    Playboy—the magazine, the empire, the lifestyle—is one of the world's best-known brands. Since the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953, two elements have been remarkably consistent: the first, obviously, is the celebration of nubile, female flesh. The second, readers may be surprised to learn, is Playboy's involvement in the music scene. The Playboy experience was never just about sex but about ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life

    Classical Music to Take You Through the Day

    by Scala Radio ...
    Narrated by Charles Nove ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music.Discussing pieces ranging from Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony to the scores for Avatar and Assassin's Creed, each entry puts the piece of music into context, providing fascinating insights into the inspirations behind ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Wunderkindreise

    ein Jazzkonzert für Kinder

    Unabridged

    36 min

    Alles beginnt mit ein paar Noten ... einer kleinen Melodie, die nach großem Aufbruch klingt! Karla und ihre Musiker gehen der Sache auf den Grund – und befinden sich mitten in einer spannenden Geschichte. Und das Tollste ist: Die Geschichte ist wahr! Alles dreht sich um den kleinen Mozart, der, erst sieben Jahre alt, mit der großen Schwester und den Eltern aufbrach und quer durch Westeuropa reiste ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten, Folge 4

    Der Big Band Swing der 30er Jahre

    by Ernst Weber ...
    Narrated by Willi Resetarits ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten

    Unabridged

    1 hour 18 min

    New York war in den späten zwanziger Jahren der Sammelpunkt von Musikern, die nicht nur aus Chicago, sondern aus allen Teilen des amerikanischen Südens und des mittleren Westens gekommen waren und im reichen Musikleben der Stadt ihr Betätigungsfeld gefunden hatten. Genau betrachtet war es nur die Band von Fletcher Henderson, die hier im „Big Apple“ entstanden war und auch zeit ihres Bestehens hier ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD $7.99 AUD