The most significant revolution in the history of music has to do with listening: it is now possible to listen to nearly anything at any time, to ignore albums, and to instantly flit across genres and
'A hidden world filled with high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-crossers and stone-cold hitmen. As fascinating as it is terrifying.’David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and T
Ratliff, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, is also curator of the Americas Collection at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He begins his account of the Southeast Asian country by r
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.No other jazz musician has proved so inspiratio
No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controver
