Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

French-born Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard is a charismatic performer whose unique American desert noir chanson stems from her collaborations wi...

This is the first English language biography of Ottorino Respighi, the most performed Italian composer of the twentieth century. Best known for hi...

George Cory and Douglass Cross wrote just one hit song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. They were unknown before they wrote it--and were unkno...

Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Jo...

A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happie...

After three decades as a professional musician, Marvin B Naylor took his talents out into the streets of Winchester, playing his fingerstyle guitar...

Erika Nielsen knew that her real language was music - her truest voice, the cello - by the time she was three years old. She knew she would become ...

The Beach Boys: All The Songs is a detailed look at the recorded output of this most unique and influential popular music group. From the 1962 debu...

The very first full biography of The Association, one of the most successful bands to come out of the mid-1960s US folk-rock boom, with some of the...

Since her late-1990s debut as a member of the R&B trio Destiny's Child, Beyonce Knowles has garnered both praise and criticism. While some c...

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited...

As an artist, David Bowie is widely considered a chameleon, shedding one persona to create a new one and thus staying popular, relevant and compell...

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheers grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. W...

AC/DC have reigned over rock'n'roll for almost four decades. Their signature power chord rock was the sonic standard bearer of the genre they pione...

For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. He ...

The self-proclaimed Hottest Band in the Land, KISS is one of the most popular groups in the history of rock, having sold more than 100 million albu...

Hawaiis legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, th...

From the early days of singing in front of his school pals to being hailed by superstar Pharrell Williams as the kid who will change pop music, Con...

For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classicalhybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and theChallenge...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (17821871), once one of the most well-known and well-loved names in French 19th-century opera, came later in life than...

A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (18971957) was the last compositional pr...