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"Jazz 911: Rescuing the Great American Songbook"

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
November 5, 2010

By Steve Provizer When you reach into the faux-velvet bag, there's a feeling of infinite possibility inspired by the virgin letters nestled inside. But you can only get that feeling after you've swept the last set of painstakingly-created words off the Scrabble board. Oddly, I went through the same process when I read Peter Ven Der Merwe's book-Origins of the Popular Style. The intensity and detail of his musical analysis broke down musical structures to the point where they began ...
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