A fast-paced Latin dance synonymous with the Dominican Republic, merengue is hugely popular throughout Latin America. Originally played in trios, the urban sound that is today's merengue is played on the saxophone, the electric guitar, the two-headed tambora drum and marimba. Filling dancefloors across the Spanish-speaking world, this album features some of the best contemporary merengue artists around, including Chichi Peralta, Cana Brava and La Makina.
As the greatest of popular singers enters hi s ninth decade, this book celebrates his contribution to the arts. As well as the music, this appraisal also considers t he acting in films as varied as High Society and the earthy The Detective. '
Nick Rhodes Inspirational Coloring Book (Nick Rhodes Books, #0)
by Jane Evans
The first and last definitive, fully-documented, massively researched birth-to-death biography of Frank Sinatra by the bestselling author of File on the Tsar and Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Frank Sinatra said that, as a child, he heard 'symphonies from the universe' in his head. At twenty-five, he told a friend he planned to become 'the best singer in the world'. Soon teenagers worldwide were behaving as though he were just that. He was 'the Big Bang of popular music', as U2's B...
George Jacobs is generally considered 'the last of the Rat Pack', a member of the exclusive club that has fascinated us for decades. He worked as Sinatra's valet and confidant from 1953, when Ava Gardner had just left him, until the end of his marriage to Mia Farrow in 1968. Racy and revealing, MR S. is a record of one of the longest and most outrageous mid-life crises ever as George helped Sinatra juggle his multiple mistresses - women like Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Grace Kelly and Peggy Le...
Oak Tree
Drawn from conversations with the jazz musician and jazz-club proprietor, Ronnie Scott, and with his friends and contemporaries, this book offers a portrait of the man, his music and his business, and marks the 35th anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho. It follows Scott's story from his early days as a sharp-dressing, wisecracking young dance-band musician in wartime London, through the coming of rock 'n' roll, hipster fashions and jive talk, to the setting up of his now famous club. The r...
Good Morning Blues (Paladin Books)
by Count Basie and Albert Murray
Count Basie (1904-1984) was one of America's pre-eminent jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers. With the charm, dry humor, and inexorable logic of phrasing that were his alone, Good Morning Blues stands as both testimony and tribute to a remarkably rich life.
I Love Adam Levine More Than Pizza ( And I Really Like Pizza)
by Scopettah Books