Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression

Blue Note: Uncompromising ExpressionThe official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential and important brand in jazz. Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of cool. The superb photography of co founder Francis Wolff and the cover designs of Reid Miles were integral to the labels success and this highly illustrated publication featuring the very best photographs, covers and ephemera from the archives, including

and Xeriscape - each illustrated with examples drawn from historic and contemporary gardens around the world

an interview with Kurosawa by renowned critic Tony Rayns

Over the past forty years as companies

Includes 350 extraordinary images (many of them previously unpublished) featuring a wide and diverse range of subjects: Nicole Kidman

his violence and opportunism

where the intense experiments and collaborations of crack musicians

Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend

this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising

The New York Times called it a "life-spanning mixtape that moves from the mournful torch songs of his youth to joyously soulful odes to survival

and the budget ballooned to over $40 million

L’avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily

Cities of the Plain is the third and final book in the Border Trilogy