This page lists Instrumentalist
Music Reference Books
that are in
my personal library.
These books contain biographical/discographical profiles for many
instrumentalist musicians on the following specific instruments:
#eo - Linn, Karen. {I}
- cover scans "That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture"
Urbana, IL and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press
1991, 185 p., ISBN:
0-252-01780-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01780-3, LC:
90-44638, UPC: ?
ML 1015 .B3 L5 (.I)
#dx - Bone, Philip J. {I}
- cover scan "The Guitar and Mandolin:
Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers, 2nd ed. enlarged"
London, U.K.: Schott & Co. Ltd.,
(1st ed. 1914) 1972 reprint of the 1954 2nd ed. with a new preface
by the author's (d. 1964) daughter
1972, 388 p., ISBN:
0-901938-02-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-901938-02-2, LC: ?, UPC: ?
ML 399 .B6 (.I)
#qk 2009,
Carlton.
"Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists" {A}
#ll
- Cooper, Collin {A}
- cover scans "Mel Bay Presents Guitar Interviews:
The Best from Classical Guitar Magazine, Vol. One"
Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, Mel Bay #MB-99746
2001, 116 p., ISBN:
0-7866-6099-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-7866-6099-5, LC: ?, EAN/UPC:
9-780786-660995, UPC:
7-96279-05255-9
#fi - Guitar Player Magazine (by the editors of). {C}
"The Guitar Player Book, revised and updated 3rd ed."
Cupertino, CA: Guitar Player Books, New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc.
1983, 403 p., ISBN:
0-394-62490-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-394-62490-7, LC:
83-81371, UPC: ?
787.61 - G968 (.C)
#ek
- Hill, Thomas A. {A}{I}
- cover scans "The Guitar: An Introduction to the Instrument"
New York, NY: A Keynote Book - Franklin Watts, Inc.
1973, 117 p., ISBN:
0-531-02635-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-531-02635-9, LC:
73-4532, UPC: ?
ML 1015 .G9 H54 (.I)
#bc
- Obrecht, Jas. {A}{C}
- cover scans "Blues Guitar - The Men Who Made the Music, 1st ed.
(from the pages of Guitar Player Magazine)"
San Francisco and others: GPI Books
1990, 200 p., ISBN:
0-87930-187-2, ISBN-13: 978-0-87930-187-3, LC:
90-83119, UPC:
9-780879-301873
780.92 - B658 (.C)
#si
- Obrecht, Jas. {A}
- cover scans "Blues Guitar - The Men Who Made the Music, 2nd ed.
(from the pages of Guitar Player Magazine)"
San Francisco and others: GPI Books
1993, 280 p., ISBN:
0-87930-292-5, ISBN-13: 978-0-87930-292-4, LC:
93-006393, UPC:
9-780879-302924
#tn - Field, Kim. {A}
- cover scans "Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers, 1st ed.,
The Evolution of the People's Instrument"
New York, NY, etc.: A Fireside Book / Simon & Schuster
1993, 347 p., ISBN:
0-671-79633-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-671-79633-4, LC:
93-024115, UPC:
9-780671-796334
#to - Field, Kim. {A}
- cover scans "Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers, Updated ed."
New York, NY: Cooper Square Press
2000, 368 p., ISBN:
0-8154-1020-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-8154-1020-1, LC: ?, UPC:
6-83865-01020-1
"an unabridged republication ... with the additions of a new
afterword by the author,
an updated discography, a new listing of Internet resources, and
28 textual emendations."
#co - Pleasants, Henry. "The Great American Popular Singers" {C}
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster
1974, 384 p., ISBN:
0-575-01774-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-575-01774-0, LC:
75-310565, UPC: ?
780.92 - P724g (.C)
#1n - Pleasants, Henry. "The Great American Popular Singers" {A}
- cover scans
New York, NY: A Fireside Book, published by Simon and Schuster
1985, 384 p., ISBN:
0-671-54098-X hardcover, ISBN-13: 978-0-671-54098-2,
0-671-54099-8 paperback {A}, ISBN-13: 978-0-671-54099-9, LC:
84-20251, no UPC
#1k - Pleasants, Henry. "The Great Singers:
From the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time" {A}
- cover scans
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster
1966, 384 p., 3rd printing, ISBN: none, LC:
66-20250, no UPC
#1o - Pleasants, Henry. "The Great Singers:
From the Dawn of Opera to Caruso, Callas and Pavarotti" {A}
- cover scans
New York, NY: A Fireside Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1985, 397 p., ISBN:
0-671-42160-3, ISBN-13: 978-0-671-42160-1, LC:
81-5260, no UPC
#zg - Warner, Jay. "The Da Capo Book of American Singing Groups: A History 1940-1990",
{A}
- cover scans
Boston, MA: Da CapoPress, a member of the Perseus Books Group
2000, 543 p., ISBN:
0-306-80923-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-306-80923-1, LC:
00-20606, UPC:
9-780306-809231
(reprint with the "About the Author" expanded to two pages)
#zh - Warner, Jay. "American Singing Groups: A History From 1940 to Today" {A}
- cover scans
Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation
2006, 622 p., ISBN:
0-634-09978-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-634-09978-6, LC:
2006-922018, UPC:
9-780634-099786
Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006, 622 p.
(reprint with updates and two new sections:
1) "The 1990s" with 20 more groups, and
2) "Vocal Group Hall of Fame" listing all Inductees 1998-2004)
See the -
Vocal Group Hall of Fame
website for all Inductees 1998-2007.