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Adventures In Musical Time Travel
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Alan Bryson
Anagrams is an eBook by Alan Bryson that grew out of his experiences interviewing musicians. Musicians and music lovers appear to share a universal fantasy about going back in time, but you can only take a daydream so far. So he decided to write the story of a fictitious character, Nathan Ballew, a baby boomer who has a brush with death in 2013 and suddenly finds himself back in the year 1962 with his memory intact. There is, however, one ...
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The Blue Note, Pictorial Jazz History Now Available
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Megan Keller
“The Blue Note takes me home to the heady days of Seattle’s jazz scene. It's a fine blend of rare photographs, first person accounts and scholarship. It also shines light on the path-breaking union musicians who played Seattle and ultimately brought about the merging of the black and white unions.” —Quincy Jones “The Blue Note gives us an entertaining and informative slice of Seattle’s black cultural history that every jazz fan should have.” —Steve Griggs, Earshot Jazz “Though subtitled 'A ...
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"Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings" By Steve Sullivan
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Steve Sullivan
From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with ...
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Don Drummond: The Genius And Tragedy Of The World’s Greatest Trombonist By Heather Augustyn With Foreword By Delfeayo Marsalis Released
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Heather Augustyn
Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World’s Greatest Trombonist by Heather Augustyn has been published by McFarland Publishing and is now available. The book is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover who forever shaped the course of ska, reggae, and popular music worldwide despite poverty, class separation, mental illness, racial politics, exploitation, and sexism that resulted in murder. The foreword is written by trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, member of the legendary jazz family. Through the ...
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Barry Cleveland Publishes Hardcover Second Edition Of Cult Classic Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques
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Michael Ricci
Veteran music journalist Barry Cleveland (currently an editor at Guitar Player magazine) has published the Second Edition of his now cult classic, Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques, in a large-sized hardcover print edition, available via the author’s website, and Amazon.com. Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition, and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and a newly restored and remastered version of Meek’s legendary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear a New World. Joe ...
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For The "Mad Genius" On Your List...
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Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius is an eye-opening, entertaining, and reassuring look at the (false) link between talent and mental illness. Written by long-time All About Jazz contributor and psychologist Dr. Judith Schlesinger, The Insanity Hoax has become a textbook at Temple University as well as the Royal College of Music in London, and is now available at amazon.com in Kindle as well as “real” book format. At theinsanityhoax.com, you can use PayPal for paperback ...
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Grant Geissman's New Book Feldstein: The Mad Life And Fantastic Art Of Al Feldstein
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
In the opinion of many comic book aficionados, the greatest comics ever created were those published in the 1950s by Bill Gaines at EC Comics. Gaines’s creative right-hand man at EC was Al Feldstein, a triple threat artist/writer/editor. And after EC was forced by various guardians of morality to drop their comics in the mid-1950s, Feldstein shepherded MAD Magazine into a cultural icon. Here is the entire life and career of this amazing creator, with insightful biographical text by EC ...
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The First Biography Of Cal Tjader Is Now Available!
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All About Jazz
The contributions of this late pioneering jazz vibraphonist—composer, arranger and bandleader Cal Tjader have largely been undervalued. This book is a major corrective. The greater part covers the Grammy winner's 40-year professional life, and his explorations of both Latin and jazz music. His personal life is remembered by those who knew Cal best. The extensive research going into this book features many interviews with family, friends and colleagues both in the Bay Area and elsewhere; all the liner notes throughout ...
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