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New Book: "You've Got Michael—Living Through HIStory" by Dan Beck
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N. Hepburn-Beaty
In 1991, Dan Beck became Michael Jackson’s main marketing contact at Epic Records. For five rollercoaster years, he was immersed in a world of unequalled stardom, dealing with the outsized ambition, whims and idiosyncrasies of the world’s most famous entertainer. It was a pivotal point in Jackson’s career. His last album had failed to repeat the record-shattering success of Thriller. Rumors about his personal life and his eccentricities had made him the subject of gossip and accusations. Tabloids had begun ...
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Sarah Jane Cion Releases Jazz Memoir 'The Now Era'
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Sarah Cion
Jazz pianist, composer, and educator Sarah Jane Cion—known for her award-winning artistry and her acclaimed appearances on NPR’s Piano Jazz—announces the release of her debut memoir, The Now Era: Improvisations on Presence, Rhythm, and the Art of Being Human. The book offers an intimate, often humorous look at life in and around music, while exploring presence, creativity, grief, joy, and the rhythms that guide a meaningful life. About the Book In The Now Era, Cion recounts stories from the bandstand, ...
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Jazz Pianist Bill Anschell Releases Debut Book Of Stories From 40 Years In And Out Of The Trenches
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Mr. P.C.
What happens when a jazz pianist spends his career bouncing between high-profile concert halls, hellish wedding gigs, major festivals, cruise ship disasters, recording dates, and insane jam sessions? Bill Anschell turns it all into comic gold. His debut book, Benched, released on November 25th, offers satirical stories that pull back the curtain on the absurd realities of jazz life. Drawing on four decades as a working musician, Anschell finds humor in the venues, audiences, industry, and artists that make up ...
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Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 Rpm Reader Edited by Josh Rosenthal
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Tompkins Square
Treasures Untold: A Modern 78RPM Reader, a sold-out 10 x 10" 155 page hardback book with CD, ltd ed of 1,000, numbered foil stamp, all about 78RPM records, released on Record Store Day April 2025, is now available as a Kindle ebook. The writing is by collectors, ethnomusicologists, dealers, archivists and producers, including an interview with Ian Nagoski and Dick Spottswood, 14 year old collector and DJ Jay Burnett, Joe Lauro, Jerry Zolten, Eli Smith (Brooklyn Folk Festival), John Heneghan, ...
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Music Journalist And Fiction Author Matty Bannond Releases Debut Jazz Novel, 'Cutting Contest'
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Matty Bannond
Cutting Contest is an energetic novel about a dry-humoured and hot-tempered young trombone player on the brink of financial, professional and personal ruin. Published in September, 2025: Connie Benson is a 26-year-old trombone player whose reckless online persona is taking over her life—and trashing it. She is buried under a mountain of personal debt, her professional reputation is falling apart and her relationship with her mother is hanging by a thread. When she snatches the last open spot in a ...
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Jimmy Madison To Release His Autobiography 'Drummer Boy' On September 1st, 2025
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Jimmy Madison
Internationally renowned jazz musician, Jimmy Madison, will release his candid, long-awaited autobiography that intersects the worlds of music and mountain climbing on September 1, 2025. In Drummer Boy, Madison shares both his vocation and his avocation from peak moments spent behind his drum kit to breathtaking moments climbing mountain peaks across the globe. His energy and devotion to both passions fill this gripping story that takes readers onto famous stages and into base camps at extreme altitudes. The New Yorker ...
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mDecks Music Launches Mastering Pentatonic Lines & Pentatonic Voicings Course For Jazz Pianists
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Ariel Ramos
mDecks Music proudly announces the release of its latest interactive courses: Mastering Pentatonic Lines & Pentatonic Voicings, a comprehensive resource designed to unlock the full potential of pentatonic scales for jazz pianists and improvisers. These unique courses cover essential techniques used by jazz legends such as Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, and McCoy Tyner. Students will learn how to create fluid pentatonic lines, master quartal structures, apply pentatonics in Mixolydian contexts, and develop rich, modern-sounding pentatonic voicings. The course includes: Step-by-step ...
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A New Bio On Gene Krupa, Who Made Drumming Swing
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Ann Pryor
The first definitive biography of the pioneering drummer and bandleader who brought percussion from back to center stage, influencing generations of musicians from jazz to rock—and beyond The Master of Drums: Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World (on sale April 29, 2025) is the first comprehensive biography of groundbreaking, controversial drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa, indisputably the most famous drummer in history. With his handsome face and shock of black hair, cool threads, unusual setup, and ferocious ...
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