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2) Jaco
Publisher
Slang East/West
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A film following the life, career, and decline of legendary bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius, featuring interviews with friends, family, and other artists. Bonus materials include outtakes and stories from Joni Mitchell, Flea, Carlos Santana, Mike Stern, and others.
Author
Language
English
Description
An epic story of the greatest guitar player to ever live, and the six lives he changed with his magical blue strings.
The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. He is the greatest guitarist to ever walk...
Author
Series
The Lillys volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up, Antonia "Toni" Bennett's guitar was her only companion...until she met Sebastian Quick. Seb was a little older, a lot wiser, and he became Toni's way out, promising they'd escape their small town together. Then Seb turned eighteen and split without looking back. Now, Toni B is all grown up and making a name for herself in Philadelphia's indie scene. When a friend suggests she try out for the hottest new band in the country, she decides...
5) Crossroads
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, the best-selling author of Shout! delivers a compelling new biography of the legendary guitarist. Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana, S.A. de C.V
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
A los veintidós años, Sydney lo tiene todo: el novio perfecto, un futuro brillante y un bonito apartamento que comparte con su mejor amiga. Pero todo cambia el día en que Ridge, su misterioso y atractivo vecino músico, le advierte de que su novio la engaña con su mejor amiga y Sydney debe decidir qué hacer con su vida. Sólo con lo puesto y sin recursos, Ridge la acoge en su casa y no deja de sorprenderla. Sydney vibra cuando él toca sus...
9) Desperado
Series
Mexico trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend --
10) My effin' life
Author
Language
English
Description
"Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist, and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the first time is his account of life inside and outside the band. ... [He] was [born] Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, after his grandfather murdered in the Holocaust. As he recounts [his life's] transformation,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Colleen Hoover and Griffin Peterson collaborate once again to bring fans of "Maybe Someday" back into the musical world of Ridge Lawson and Sydney Blake. And Maggie. And Warren and Bridgette.
Maggie meets Jake, a cardiologist with a penchant for tandem skydiving. Getting ready for a post-jump date, Maggie comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," and decides...
12) Jimi
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Chroma, an imprint of Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"JIMI is the ultimate tribute to the greatest guitar player in rock and roll history, celebrating what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday on November 27, 2022. This comprehensive visual celebration is an official collaboration with Jimi's sister, Janie Hendrix, and John McDermott of Experience Hendrix L.L.C. JIMI significantly expands on the authors' previously published titles, including An Illustrated Experience, and features a new introduction...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Known as the father of American Primitive Guitar, many consider John Fahey to be a foundational figure in American folk music. As both musician and musicologist, Fahey made a fundamental contribution to our understanding and appreciation of such music genres as Delta blues, Appalachian bluegrass, and New Orleans jazz. Interviews, performances and archival footage with animation are combined in a musically charged tribute to a tremendously influential...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how they...
Author
Series
Bocchi the Rock! volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh once played guitar in solitude, but ever since Nijika roped her into joining Kessoku Band, she's started to emerge from her shell...kinda. She may still be a nervous wreck, but with a show or two under her belt, a part-time job, and even some real-life friends, those rocker fantasies don't seem so unrealistic anymore! However, the band's about to face its biggest challenge yet-performing onstage at the school festival! Can Bocchi...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The story of brothers Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jimmie and Stevie went from a small, post-war house in Oak Cliff, Texas to becoming rock and roll legends, selling millions of records and playing alongside the likes of David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, Carlos Santana and more. A portion of the film is devoted to Jimmie and Eric Clapton's first ever on-camera interviews about the night that Stevie died. Featuring newly revealed...
Author
Language
English
Description
Most people conjure up an almost otherworldly image of Jimi Hendrix-a man who was destined to be a star; a man who set fire to guitars, women's hearts, and the status quo. In this illuminating account of his life, bestselling author and music journalist Charles R. Cross paints a far deeper, more compelling portrait of this musical genius. Drawing on never-before-seen documents, private letters, and more than three hundred interviews, Room Full of...
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