Adventure Music Launches Publishing Division

Adventure Music, the independent label that has released CDs from such acclaimed artists as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ricardo Silveira, Moacir Santos, Claudia Villela, Maria Marquez, Jovino Santos Neto, and its cofounder mandlolin legend Mike Marshall, has just launched a publishing division. The initial titles from Adventure Publishing are five Mandolin Method books authored by Marshall. The books are currently only available online at the Elderly Instruments website, at www.elderly.com, and will be available at other retailers in the near future.

One of the world's most accomplished and versatile acoustic musicians, Mike is able to swing gracefully from jazz to classical to bluegrass to Latin styles. Throughout his career, Mike has performed and recorded with some of the top acoustic string instrumentalists in the world, including jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor, five-string banjo phenom Bela Fleck, bassist and MacArthur Fellowship winner Edgar Meyer, and classical violinist Joshua Bell. His projects for Adventure Music include Mike Marshall and Choro Famoso, Serenata (with Jovino Santos Neto), and, on Adventure Music America, Psychograss’ Now Hear This. In August, the label will reissue a remastered version of Marshall’s 1996 release, Brazil Duets, which pairs him with an eclectic array of players, including Bela Fleck, Andy Narell, Michael Manring, and more.

The titles of the five books in the Mandolin Method series are:
The Great Book of Finger Busters
Improvisational Concepts
The Chord Book
Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin by J.S. Bach
Brazilian Choros

Says Marshall, “I have always had a folder in my practice room where I would collect little musical ditties in the form of exercises or brief conceptual ideas that would come to me as I played. I would write down the musical creations that I felt were unique and could help serve contemporary mandolin improvisation, composition and especially basic technique. After twenty years or more of this I had compiled quite a nice collection. I decided to offer them to the public in conjunction with this year’s annual Mandolin Symposium, which took place at the end of June at the University of California in Santa Cruz.”

Marshall created the Mandolin Symposium two years ago along with celebrated mandolinists David Grisman and Chris Thile. It now attracts over 150 students, taught by seven instructors who also perform nightly throughout the week of the symposium, which culminates with a performance by the student orchestras.

For additional information on the titles in the Mandolin Method series, please visit www.elderlymusic.com. Information on Adventure Music can be found on the label’s site, at www.adventure-music.com. Mike Marshall’s website is www.mikemarshall.net