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Jazz & Blues Florida August 2012 Online Edition Posted
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Jazz & Blues Florida
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's best and only free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and tourists coming from around the world consult this site for information on the increasingly vibrant scene to be found throughout the state. The August 2012 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted atJazzBluesFlorida.com. The feature articles are all previews of local and touring ...
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Jazz Composition and Arranging In The Digital Age
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Alyssa Bender
Jazz Composition and Arranging In the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman and Michael Abene combine their extensive years of experience as musicians and instructors to demonstrate how advances in music technology and software may be integrated with traditional compositional concepts to form a new and more efficient paradigm for ...
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Turn Your Band into a Virus... with a Book?
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HypeBot
Guest post by Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. We have learned to be leery of marketing. After all, marketers and advertisers are paid to push commodities — human and otherwise — on the defenseless masses whether or not they believe in what they're selling, or so the story goes. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but we've all seen marketing that borders on propaganda. So what? You're not a soul-sucking marketing executive, right? You're a musician exposing your heart to the world. ...
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Classic Jazz Artists In New Book By Renown Photographer Bob Willoughby
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Steve Roth
Bob Willoughby was one of the great photographers of classic Hollywood and its stars; his photos throughout the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were seen in Look, Life, and Harper’s Bazaar. Willoughby was also a jazz lover who took hundreds of photos of the burgeoning California Jazz scene and its most pivotal and innovative magicians. For the first time these amazing photos documenting his passion for the music are lovingly chronicled in Jazz: Body and Soul published this week in the ...
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West Coast Release Party For "The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story"
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Gregg Akkerman
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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New Boston Book Looks Back On A Sparkling Jazz Scene
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Richard Vacca
Nat Pierce, Joe Gordon, and Charlie Mariano started their careers in Boston. It’s where Nat Hentoff worked as a deejay, George Wein planned the Newport Jazz Festival, and Lawrence Berk started the Berklee School of Music. Richard Vacca writes about all of them and more in The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937–1962, the first book to document that city’s vibrant jazz scene at mid-century. “In a city that isn’t shy about telling its stories, the jazz history ...
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A Spotify playlist for Ted Gioia's "The Jazz Standards" of 2,000 songs
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Michael Ricci
My passage as a listener into the jazz world was accidental and fortuitous. As a young rock fan browsing the vinyl cutouts at Jack's Record Rack, I found one of Miles Davis' Live at the Blackhawk albums for $1.99 or so. Something about the moody cover appealed to me, so I bought it. Not long after that, I heard my first live jazz performance. The shortlived Winterfest booked tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, who'd made a remarkable comeback after some lean ...
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Coming Soon: "Menage a Bughouse" by Cartoonist Steve Lafler
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Michael Ricci
Cartoonist Steve Lafler teams up with publisher CO2 to release Ménage a Bughouse. a 408-page volume collecting Lafler's trilogy of Bughouse graphic novels, Bughouse, Baja and Scalawag. Bughouse is the story of Jimmy Watts and his band of jazz playing bugs. The character driven story is set in a stylish “insect-noir” world, invoking an indigo-toned Manhattan of the early 1950s. Be-bop is king, and the alluring substance “bug juice” threatens to destroy the players against a backdrop of romance and ...
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