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Aunque no se trata de un arte plástico en sentido literal, hay que mencionar que este siglo de la Ilustración dio lugar a una gran explosión musical y vió nacer a los mejores maestros de todos los tiempos. En esta breve relación queremos mencionar a algunos de ellos que han quedado esculpidos para siempre en la historia de la música.

Jazz is a relatively new art form. It's melodic and harmonic language has evolved throughout the past 100 years from one great innovator passing on his discoveries to the next as a kind of artistic baton passing. The piano has always lead the harmonic language of jazz, so in order to truly understand the evolution of this music, one must understand the lineage of the music's greatest piano players. In this book, Richie Beirach provides his incisive and at times inside knowledge of these 10 great piano players who defined the language of jazz.

In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group's official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to "Betty Boards," and Dick's Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years.