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Release Party For The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story
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All About Jazz
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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"When I Left Home: My Story" by Buddy Guy
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Chris M. Slawecki
When I Left Home: My Story tells, for the first time, Buddy's picaresque story in his own unique voice, told as only he can tell it — with deep personal insight and unforgettable, candid portraits of all the key players of the first generation of electric blues artists, whose music changed the world forever. Buddy's on tour to support When I Left Home: My Story, too:
06/08/12 Red Bank, NJ: Count Basie Theatre 06/09/12 Montclair, NJ: Wellmont Theatre ...
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Mad Jazz On NPR!
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Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Recently Dr. Judith Schlesinger, All About Jazz's Shrinktunes and Nite & Disk columnist, was interviewed about her new book The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius by Jeff Haas, host of The New Jazz Archive on Interlochen Public Radio. The show explores the overlap between psychology and jazz. In her segment (6:15 to 18.51), Dr. Schlesinger describes the historic factors that keep the myth in play despite its complete lack of scientific validity, and explains how easily ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida May 2012 Online Edition Posted
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Charles Boyer
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and visitors coming from around the world consult this site for information on the vibrant scene to be found throughout the state. If jazz & blues in Florida had a voice, they would be talking about us. They don’t, so we talk about them. The May 2012 online edition of ...
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Viking Announces Acquisition Of Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock's Memoir
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Muse Media
Viking is pleased to announce the acquisition of the memoir of jazz legend Herbie Hancock. Clare Ferraro, President of Viking, acquired world rights from Robert Barnett of Williams & Connolly. Viking plans to publish in the fall of 2014, with Rick Kot as editor. Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. In an illustrious career that has spanned over five decades and earned him 14 Grammy® Awards (including the 2007 Album Of The Year for River: The Joni ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida April 2012 Online Edition Posted
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Charles Boyer
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and visitors coming from around the world consult this site for information on the vibrant scene to be found throughout the state. There is no other source of information that provides this much quality information in an online promotion platform. The April 2012 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA ...
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A New Novel "A New Yorker at Sea" by Nick Catalano
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All About Jazz
FLUSHING, N.Y.: In his book A New Yorker at Sea, Nick Catalano tells the story of a city guy from New York who takes a trip through the Middle East and the Mediterranean partaking in life threatening situations to satisfy his sense of adventure. Joe Pisano is a college professor and sailor who is accompanied by his mates, Roger and Dick, on a journey on their yacht Bravura. The crew encounters a series of problems including corrupt law officials, pirates ...
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Chris Potter Transcription Book Now Available!
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Eli Bennett
The Official Chris Potter transcription eBook Chris Potter Plays Acapella Standards is now available from Eli Bennett Publishing. The exciting new book features eleven inspiring acapella Potter solos over standards, including All The Things You Are, Tune Up, I Love You, 26-2, Have You Met Miss Jones 1&2, Just Friends, It Could Happen To You, Confirmation, Ladybird, I Hear A Rhapsody, and is available for digital download here. A renowned soloist, accomplished composer and formidable bandleader, saxophonist Chris Potter has ...
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