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Books : R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country from: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. List Price: £10.95 CD-Charts Price: £7.12 You Save: £3.83 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 781.64092273 EAN: 9780810930865 ISBN: 0810930862 Label: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Number Of Items: 2 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: October 06, 2006 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Studio: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Sales Rank: 7991 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - IDIOSYNCRATIC BUT COMPELLING COLLECTIONKnowing the prices that Robert Crumb's work commands (try getting hold of a copy of his illustrated CD "That's What I Call Sweet Music" and you'll see what I mean), when I first saw this advertised I thought that the price must have been entered incorrectly, but no! Just imagine, a 240 page hardback book, illustrated in colour on high quality paper, with an accompanying 21-track CD, for less than you'd expect to pay for either on its own. The book (and CD), falls into three distinct parts, and three different techniques have been used to produce the illustrations. I'm familiar with the jazz figures, and my comments therefore concentrate on that aspect. The first is that some of these choices are extremely idiosyncratic. Many (Beiderbecke, ... Read More: Rating: - Outstanding workFirst time I heard of Robert Crumb was through the sleeve art of the LP Cheap Thrills-which was the best part of the album as I'm no lover of Janis Joplin. Here are over 100 illustrations which are as good as it gets for portraits of musicians. Makes me wonder just why Picasso and Van Gogh are so rated-this is real art! The enclosed CD has one extra track not credited and its the last one which is probably some Tin Pan Alley one of the day Rating:  - A book fit for (Blues, Jazz and Country) HeroesThis hard-back book collects together drawings Crumb published as three sets of 'trading cards' in the 1980's - Heroes of Blues, early Jazz and Country, together with a CD featuring some of the artists on the cards. I was lucky enough to be given the Heroes of Blues cards at the time and I've always found them fascinating, both for the drawings and the biographical notes on the performers which appeared on the back. Crumb's love of the music is evident in the drawings, which although they are relatively simple, are none the less fully realised and perfectly capture the spirit of musicians illustrated. The Blues and Country sets are very similar in style but the Jazz set is a bit more sophisticated, possibly reflecting the greater sophistication ... Read More: Rating: - Musically marvellousRobert Crumb is rightly regarded as the progenitor of "underground comix". His influence can be discerned in most of the so-called alternative comics on the market, and his artistic style and unique take on the absurdity of American life and life in general was and probably still is ground-breaking. Here, collected for the first time, are the widely sought-after trading cards, his heroes of blues, jazz and country music, which he illustrated and published in the 80s as a tribute, suitably idiosyncratic, of the music he has always loved. With thumbnail biographies of the featured artists and an amazing bonus CD of 21 tracks compiled by Crumb himself, this is another fine addition to his growing publishing credits, and a great gift for the music lover in your life. |
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