Black Music/Jazz

Beyond Musical Borders

Composition, improvisation, and listening without fixed boundaries: *Beyond Musical Borders* combines 26 open-ended compositions with a guide to migration and musical exchange, as well as comprehensive “inside–outside ear” training. A practical guide for musicians who want to expand their musical ear, rethink musical material, and develop their own musical language.

24,00 €

Pickin’ Time

The definitive chronicle of Johnny Cash’s recording history: *Pickin’ Time* documents over 1,400 studio sessions and traces the entire career of the “Man in Black”—the result of more than eighteen years of research.

36,00 € – 48,00 €

Composing While Black

Revised and expanded: *Composing While Black* is now available with a new foreword—a incisive, urgent exploration of race, representation, and structural inequality in contemporary music.

22,99 € – 29,00 €

Cloud Arrangers

Cloud Arrangers gathers photographs from Žiga Koritnik’s decades of documenting global music. A must-have for photography and music lovers.

79,00 €

Brötzmann In My Focus

A compelling photo book about Peter Brötzmann, taken over three decades by Žiga Koritnik—with texts and poems by key companions from the international free jazz scene.

64,00 €

FREE MUSIC PRODUCTION (FMP) REVISITED

With this volume, Thomas Hartmann presents the first comprehensive review of the history of FMP.

48,00 €

Monheim Papers II

The Monheim Papers II provides a multi-layered insight into the artistic universe of the Monheim Triennale 2025.

20,00 €

Dynamic Vibrations. Played with Hands and Feet

A cross-genre artist's book with compositions, texts, drawings and insights into his radical approach to music and art.

29,00 €

nothing is original!

From the perspective of appropriation art, Bauer questions artistic categories such as original, repetition, and difference.

34,00 €

Dear Billy

The book sheds light on the life of William Pearson in the field of tension between new music, racism and artistic emancipation.

38,00 €

In the Brewing Luminous

In the Brewing Luminous is the first comprehensive biography of Cecil Taylor.

36,00 €

George Gershwin

The biography of a composer whose symphonic and operatic music ranges from blue notes to double counterpoint, bitonality, and the Tristan chord.

32,00 €

“God is in the House”

This book is the first to reconstruct in detail the often blurred traces of the life of Art Tatum, the legendary African-American jazz pianist.

48,00 €

Warum improvisieren wir?

IMPROVISATION. Everything is possible and right!!! You can play whatever you want!!! You can't make mistakes!!!

18,00 €

Eric Dolphy

A poetic and fragmentary biography of jazz visionary Eric Dolphy - multi-instrumentalist, innovator, and icon of the 1960s avant-garde.

24,00 €

Serendipity

Jürgen Wuchner's musical legacy – 75 compositions and personal reflections.

36,00 €