SKU: PE.0989253017
An Autobiography &
Chronicle of Weather
Report. Composed by
Weather Report, Peter
Erskine.
Artist/Personality;
Reference Textbooks;
Textbook - General. Jazz.
Book. 334 pages. Edition
Peters #98-0989253017.
Published by Edition
Peters (PE.0989253017).
ISBN 9780989253017.
UPC: 038081470153.
English.
No
Beethoven chronicles the
life and times of drummer
Peter Erskine, with the
legendary band Weather
Report being the nexus to
this first-hand account.
Erskine was in the midst
of the modern American
jazz music scene as it
underwent its most
dynamic change. Peter
Erskine is a musician of
his times with incredibly
rich stories to tell in
this autobiography.
Including never-before
published photographs.
No Beethoven
includes chapters
dedicated to Weather
Report and the musicians
Joe Zawinul, Jaco
Pastorius, and Wayne
Shorter, plus the bands
Steps Ahead, Steely Dan,
and artists such as Elvin
Jones, Joni Mitchell,
Freddie Hubbard, Diana
Krall, Steve Gadd,
producer Manfred Eicher,
composers John Williams,
and Mark-Anthony Turnage,
et al. The book provides
a revealing look at the
creative process involved
in performing music
on-stage and in the
recording studio, as well
as a behind-the-scenes
look at how the musical
instrument industry
operates.
This is
a book for all musicians
and fans of music. As
famed drummer and Rush
founder Neil Peart
writes: No Beethoven is
among the best musical
autobiographies I have
read. Peter's story is
absorbing and compelling,
full of well-drawn
characters and incidents
both humorous and
serious. It flows with
the same ease and
naturalness as his
drumming, and under that
good-humored gloss, it
conveys the same
profundity of experience
and ideas. This book
should be read not only
by every drummer, but by
every musician. Even
amateurs of music
performance will find it
entertaining and
worthwhile.
