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Book / Magazine

West Coast Release Party For "The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story"

Source: Gregg Akkerman
July 11, 2012

Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012), on the West Coast at a reading event in San Diego, California. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with the intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane (Impulse! 1963) and as the singing voice behind several scenes in Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County. Jazz singer Carol Sloane was one ...

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Book / Magazine

Release Party For The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2012

Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012) at a combined reading/live performance in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1963) and as the singing voice behind several scenes in Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County. “I started out just writing a book on a baritone ...

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Radio

Johnny Hartman Feature Ahead Of New Book

Source: Gregg Akkerman
June 4, 2012

Radio host Bill McCann will air a Johnny Hartman feature on his June 23 “Saturday Morning Edition of Jazz" show in acknowledgement of the artist's 89th birthday and an upcoming book. Heard on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York, McCann will include guests Tom Pierce and Gregg Akkerman. Piece will contribute his recollections of seeing Hartman perform before the jazz singer died in 1983 from cancer. Akkerman will feature anecdotes from his upcoming book The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman ...

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