El jazz en México

This illustrated biography shows how four friends from Liverpool became the most popular musical group in history: The Beatles! Each book comes with a complimentary poster of the band. It also includes a prologue by Jordi Sierra i Fabra.

Compendio de entrevistas, reportajes, crónicas y artículos, a través de los cuales el autor desarrolla una cartografía de la música mexicana e internacional, que recorre el género clásico, el jazz, el rock, el blues, el tango y la música afroantillana.

El estudio de las formas musicales de este libro de texto va a descubrir las tendencias, las finalidades, as como las razones de ser de determinadas estructuras musicales. No fue ocasional, espordico, o contingente, el nacimiento de la sonata, el desarrollo de la misma a travs de la msica instrumental de cmara, y ms tarde de orquesta. Tampoco tuvo este carcter la elaboracin de la Fuga o del Motete, del Oratorio o de la Misa. Cada una de las formas de la msica a travs de la historia, ha tenido su razn de ser en problemas de sensibilidad artstica, ligada ntimamente a las ms grandes cuestiones...

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...