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Title: The Jazz Standards

Subtitle: A Guide to the Repertoire

Author: Ted Gioia

Narrator: Bob Souer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this comprehensive and unique survey, here are the songs that sit at the heart of the jazz repertoire, ranging from "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Autumn in New York" to "God Bless the Child," "How High the Moon," and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love."

Gioia includes Broadway show tunes written by such greats as George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, and classics by such famed jazz musicians as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and John Coltrane. The audiobook offers vibrant discussions of each song, packed with information about how the song was written, who recorded it, the song's place in jazz history, and much more. Gioia includes recommendations for more than 2,000 recordings, with a list of suggested tracks for each song. Filled with colorful anecdotes and expert commentary, The Jazz Standards will appeal to a wide audience, serving as a fascinating introduction for new fans, an invaluable and long-needed audiobook for jazz lovers and musicians, and an indispensable reference for students and educators.

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Titre: Pourquoi le mystérieux code A113 apparaît-il dans 45 dessins animés ? (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 09-01-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume

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Title: The Daily Adventures of Mixerman

Author: Mixerman

Narrator: Mixerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-12

Publisher: Mixerman Multimedia

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 153 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Ptich:

With 1930s radio and Firesign Theatre in mind, Producer Aardvark and Mixerman set forth to create a full unabridged dramatization of this popular story. Complete with music, musical character motifs (ala Peter and the Wolf), foley, sound effects, and performances by some of the most well known and admired producers and mixers in the business, including: Ken Scott (The Beatles), Dave Pensado (Christina Aguillerra), Ed Cherney (Better Midler), Ron Saint Germain (U2), Jeff Lorber (Dave Koz), Joe McGrath (AFI), Dylan Dresdow (Black-Eyed Peas), William Wittman (Cyndi Lauper), Kenny Gioia (Daryl Hall & John Oates) Julian Bunetta (Hillary Duff), JP Plunier (Ben Harper), and Bob Ohllsson (Jackson 5); the two record-makers deliver an astoundingly entertaining product that is sure to provide listeners with hours of pure unadulterated enjoyment.In other words, this is not your father's audiobook. It's your great grandfathers! With a modern spin, of course.

Summary:

The inner workings of recording sessions have long been the closely guarded secrets held only by those involved. And while some have tried to piece together the stories of sessions past, rarely do these accounts rise above the level of hearsay and folklore, distorted by the passage of time.

Enter Mixerman, a Los Angeles recording engineer who, on nothing more than a hunch, begins to chronicle the daily events of a Major Label recording session with a bidding-war band, and infamous producer, and a limitless budget. And he does it in real time - each night posting his entires on the Internet, withholding only the true identities of those he writes about.

It's apparent early on that the anonymous Mixerman is for real - distilling complicated recording procedures into simple an understandable terms. But as narrator, tour guide, and humorous off-color commentator, he also delivers a gripping and often hysterical no-holds-barred tale of a recording session gone awry.

And while the band, their manager, the label executives, the producer, and the studio staff are initially unaware that their potentially embarrassing antics are being watched by an ever-growing audience of Internet voyeurs, it is surely only a matter of time before Mixerman's diary is discovered.

God help him if that happens.

Please note: Both the print and audio editions of The Daily Adventures of Mixerman follow an unconventional, somewhat nonlinear structure. This is intentional.

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Title: Lets Go Crazy

Subtitle: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain

Author: Alan Light

Narrator: Fred Berman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 213 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

From the former senior editor of Rolling Stone and author of The Holy or the Broken, called "thoughtful and illuminating" by The New York Times, a new book on the unlikely coming to be of Prince's now legendary album.

Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film - each one a commercial success and cultural milestone. How did this semiautobiographical musical masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds come to alter the recording landscape and become an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans?

Purple Rain is widely considered to be among the most important albums in music history and is often named the best soundtrack of all time. It sold over a million copies in its first week and blasted to number one on the charts, where it would remain for a full six months and eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide. It spun off three huge hit singles, won Grammys and an Oscar, and took Prince from pop star to legend.

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary year of Purple Rain's release, acclaimed music journalist Alan Light takes a timely look at the making and incredible popularizing of this once seemingly impossible project. With impeccable research and in-depth interviews with people who witnessed Prince's audacious vision becoming a reality, Light reveals how a rising but not yet established artist from the Midwest was able not only to get Purple Rain made but deliver on his promise to conquer the world.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Sam Cooke

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dennis Logan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

"I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand." (Sam Cooke)

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

If Sam Cooke, one of the greatest African-American soul singers in the genre's history, had been Irish, he might have kept company with the likes of the great balladeer and classical tenor John McCormack. If he had been born Italian, he might have starred in the refined, lyrical Mozart opera roles usually reserved for those with extreme musical sensitivity. Such was the level of excellence in Cooke's inner understanding of his own voice, which was capable of exquisite classical precision and a finesse in phrasing that lay far beyond the norm. He could have prospered and attained greatness in any genre of his choice, but considering the timing of the American audience and his African-American heritage, Sam Cooke instead pioneered a new genre and became its greatest practitioner by blending black musical traditions that incorporated all the refinement and beauty of European classical genres yet still spoke from the heart of his rural American roots.

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