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Some people think Jay-Z is just another rapper. Others see him as just another celebrity/mega-star. The reality is, no matter what you think Jay-Z is, he is first and foremost a business. And as much as Martha Stewart or Oprah, he has turned himself into a lifestyle. This audiobook explains just how Jay-Z propelled himself from the bleak streets of Brooklyn to the heights of the business world.

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and the aftermath. It's a book about music, business, race, addiction and the cities that gave jazz its home; from New York and LA to Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City. Kaplan meditates on creativity and the great forebears of this golden age who would take the music down strange new paths.

Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of music, and navigated the imperial Russian court to great advantage. In this iconoclastic biography, celebrated author Simon Morrison recreates Tchaikovsky's complex world. 

Marco Pogo liest "Gschichtn". Marco Pogo hat ein Buch geschrieben. Gut, das haben viele, aber dieses Buch hat es in sich. Denn es ist gefüllt mit "Gschichtn" und Anekdoten, die ein Nicht - Musiker immer schon mal wissen wollte und mit Dingen, die man vielleicht auch gar nicht so genau wissen will. Ein Teil der "Gschichtn" führt sogar in die Untiefen des österreichischen Politsystems. Und dass dort der Nährboden für gute "Gschichtn" besonders ergiebig ist , dürfte allgemein bekannt sein. Eine vielversprechende Mischung also. Jetzt auch zum Anhören.