Music audiobooks

¡Mambo mucho mambo!

By: Dean Robbins

Narrated by: Eduardo Ruales

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Era la década de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York. Ya sea que bailaras al sonido de las trompetas y los saxofones en un salón en el barrio italiano o en la calle al son de maracas y congas en el barrio puertorriqueño, generalmente bailabas en el lugar donde vivías y con gente de tu mismo origen. Pero antes de que terminara la década,... Read more

Ten Masterpieces of Music

By: Harvey Sachs

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes listeners into the heart of ten great works of classical music?works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters?Mozart and Beethoven; Schubert,... Read more

Who Is Elton John?

By: Kirsten Anderson & Who HQ

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

How does a little boy from the London suburbs named Reginald Kenneth Dwight grow up to become one of the biggest pop stars of all time? A lot of talent and a lot of personality! Elton John, as he would later call himself, started playing piano at the age of three. Although he was trained to play classical music, Elton's real love was rock and... Read more

Milkcrate Monologues

By: Ron Johnson Jr.

Narrated by: Ron Johnson Jr.

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Fall of 2013, the School of Arts and Culture in California debuted a new course—Hiphop Theatre. The students were surprised to find parallels between modern Hiphop music and classic theatre plays by William Shakespeare.

Rap and Hiphop music, just like any other music, is a form of art. It is also the go-to form of expression for the... Read more

¡Mambo Mucho Mambo!

By: Dean Robbins

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together… until, first, a band and, then, a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and... Read more

Who Was Aretha Franklin?

By: Nico Medina & Who HQ

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

There is only one QUEEN OF SOUL! Discover why Aretha Franklin garners so much R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Aretha Franklin was a musical and cultural icon whose legacy spanned six decades! Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, Aretha got her start singing in front of her father's Baptist congregation and found minor success as a gospel singer. She then set her... Read more

Along the Cherry Lane

By: Richard Sparks & Milton Okun

Narrated by: Richard Sparks, Jason Culp, Amanda Carlin, Lee ...

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

John Denver said, “I have a producer who looks like an accountant, and an accountant who looks like a producer.” Soberly dressed, unflashy, and a trained classical musician, in the golden age of the music business Milt Okun stood out by not standing out. His legacy does that for him. He discovered and launched John Denver, and mentored him... Read more

Curiosity Killed the Cat!

By: Ana Gerhard

Narrated by: Colm Feore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim who loves cheese and music. The setting is a lively open-air café on a beautiful spring day after a long, hard winter. In the midst of people talking and laughing, a very strange fellow sits by himself, book in hand, reading a poem about a trout swimming joyfully in a brook. The... Read more

A Brilliant Plan!

By: Ana Gerhard

Narrated by: Colm Feore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim who loves cheese and music. He has just spent an amazing summer in the country with his cousin Maxim. The meals have been fabulous, followed by delightful concerts with gifted musicians who are there to play for the prince and his guests. Autumn is now upon them and something has... Read more

Curieux comme un petit chat !

By: Ana Gerhard

Narrated by: Benoît Brière

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Voyagez dans le temps pour faire la rencontre de Franz Schubert en suivant Minime, une charmante petite souris qui raffole du fromage et de la musique ! C’est enfin le printemps et Minime flâne à la terrasse d’un café. Attablé au milieu de la cohue, un homme rêveur est si absorbé par sa lecture qu’il ne remarque pas la présence de l’intrépide... Read more

A Picnic in the Sun

By: Christiane Duchesne

Narrated by: Mischa Cheeseman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

An imaginative musical tale comprised of a narrated story interspersed with original and traditional songs that follows four inseparable friends who love being together. Bertie and his buddies never ever got bored with each other… except for the time when it rained for four straight weeks! That’s when they decided to repair an old boat and head... Read more

Nous voilà tout oreilles !

By: Ana Gerhard

Narrated by: Benoît Brière

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Voyagez dans le temps pour faire la rencontre de Niccolò Paganini en suivant Minime, une charmante petite souris qui raffole du fromage et de la musique ! Après avoir caché Minime dans la poche de sa jupe, Émilie se précipite à l’atelier de son père. Un invité important vient d’arriver chez le luthier. C’est le meilleur violoniste au monde,... Read more

Un vrai coup de maître !

By: Ana Gerhard

Narrated by: Benoît Brière

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Voyagez dans le temps pour faire la rencontre de Franz Joseph Haydn en suivant Minime, une charmante petite souris qui raffole du fromage et de la musique ! Minime a rejoint son cousin Maxime dans un joli palais à la campagne. C’est un bel après-midi d’automne et les souris écoutent avec ravissement les musiciens qui répètent pour le concert du... Read more

We Are All Ears!

By: Ana Gerhard

Narrated by: Colm Feore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim who loves cheese and music. On this occasion, he finds himself bouncing around in Emily’s skirt pocket as she joyfully skips down the stairs to her father’s bustling workshop. A very special guest has just arrived, a musician deemed to be the best violinist in the world. Little... Read more

Une fête sous la lune

By: Christiane Duchesne

Narrated by: Bruno Marcil

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Il était une fois quatre amis qui ne se quittaient jamais comme ils avaient toujours beaucoup de plaisir ensemble. Après un voyage plein de surprises qui s’est terminé avec un grand pique-nique au soleil, les membres de la bande à Bébert décident de s’installer loin des pluies torrentielles, au sommet de la montagne Bleue. Dans ce nouveau pays,... Read more

Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions

By: Duane Tudahl

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 23 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career.



Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love,... Read more

Leonard Cohen

By: Harry Freedman

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Leonard Cohen by Harry Freedman, read by Ben Onwukwe.

Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' – The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

'Among the finest volumes on Cohen’s life and lyrics ... An exploration... Read more

Made In Hollywood

By: Gina Schock

Narrated by: Gina Schock, Lyssa Brown, Charles Leggett & Kat...

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Go-Go’s were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photographs and memorabilia collected... Read more

Bing Crosby

By: Gary Giddins

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 26 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this companion book to the award–winning biography Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams; The Early Years, 1903–1940, Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful work.Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzying era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War,... Read more

Hip-Hop (And Other Things)

By: Shea Serrano

Narrated by: Bernardo Cubria

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is the third book in the (And Other Things) series. The first two—Basketball (And Other Things) and Movies (And Other Things)—were both #1 New York Times bestsellers. Read more

Fandom and The Beatles

By: Kenneth Womack & Kit O'Toole

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith & Michael Butler Murray

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

More than fifty years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group? Why are current teens affected by the band's music?... Read more

A Furious Devotion

By: Richard Balls

Narrated by: Dan Calley

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues's notorious frontman from outcast to national treasure has never been told—until now.



A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan vividly recounts the experiences that shaped the greatest songwriter of his generation: the formative... Read more

My Ticket to Ride

By: Janice Mitchell

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A true-adventure, coming-of-age tale set in the exhilarating first wave of Beatlemania



It's 1964, and 16-year-old Janice is struggling in a grim foster home in Cleveland when she falls suddenly, deeply in love . . . with the Beatles. They and their music stir in her an ecstatic new sense of freedom. With a friend, she hatches a bold plan to... Read more

My life as an animal

By: Andrew Tyler

Narrated by: Jim Smith

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Working as a respected investigative journalist for the Observer and Guardian, with star-studded spells at the New Musical Express and Time Out and dedicating the last 20 years of his life completely to Animal Rights, Andrew Tyler has recorded his own ‘great life’ - from his early days in a Jewish orphanage in London to his final day in a clinic... Read more