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Jazz Educator Dr. Matt Warnock Releases Rhythmic Improvisational Concepts Ebook
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Matthew Warnock
Modern Time: Rhythmic Fundamental for the Improvising Musician Ebook Technical and Improvisational Concepts to Develop Rock Solid Rhythm Following up on the success of his first ebook “30 Days to Better Jazz Guitar," guitarist and educator Matt Warnock has just released his latest work, “Modern Time," which brings to light the exciting possibilities that rhythmic study can open up for musicians of all instruments and all levels of experience. “Modern Time's" focus is to help students develop a solid understanding ...
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Scott Faragher: The Hammond (PT. 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Few instruments excite music fans as much as the Hammond organ. Yet everyone hears something different. The jazz fan hears a textured sound approximating that of a big band. The soul fan hears shades of gospel. And the rock fan hears a touch of funky soul. But where did this instrument come from and how did it evolve? In Part 1 of my conversation with Scott Faragher, author of the terrific new book The Hammond Organ: An Introduction to the ...
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Former Madonna Record Producer Lands Book Publishing Deal
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other-now.
Former Madonna record producer, Stevie B, recently secured a publishing contract with Publish America, an international book publishing house. Rushing into print his novel titled Pajamas on a Sun Stained Beach at the end of 2011. Publish America has now announced that it's available in bookstores nationwide. Pajamas on a Sun Stained Beach is a work of literary fiction that chronicles the dying thoughts of a drowning man and not only explores biological death but also the death of our ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida March 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 sate. We are all about real music, made by real people, in real places. The March 2012 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at www.JazzBluesFlorida.com. ...
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Backbeat Books Publishes "Mambo Diablo: My Journey With Tito Puente" by Joe Conzo with David A. Perez
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Chris M. Slawecki
Tito Puente was more than a flamboyant percussionist; he was a multi-instrumentalist, a gifted composer and arranger, and one of the finest bandleaders of the last century. Mambo Diablo: My Journey with Tito Puente (Backbeat Books, $29.99) by Joe Conzo with David A. Pérez chronicles the remarkable life of the popular and combative King of Latin Music, who climbed from the barrio to international fame and recognition, influencing multiple generations of jazz and Latin artists from Dizzy Gillespie to Carlos ...
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The Insanity Hoax Receives First Honor
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Dr. Judith Schlesinger
The Insanity Hoax: Exposing the myth of the mad genius, by our senior reviewer and columnist Dr. Judith Schlesinger, has just been chosen as a “new and “notable book" by the prestigious and long-running Skeptical Inquirer, “the magazine for science and reason." The book was chosen because it effectively challenges one of society's most unreasonable and unscientific notions: that creativity and mental disorder are always bundled together. The Insanity Hoax is the first book to comprehensively demonstrate that great talent ...
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Countdown To Raise Funds for Revolutionary Publishing Technology Featuring Sheila Jordan
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Sound Visions Media
NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan, never imagined her biography would be an innovative digital media book. For more than five years, author and vocalist Ellen Johnson has been researching and writing Jordan's fascinating life story about the vocal jazz legend. “Jazz Child: The Sheila Jordan Story," a Kickstarter crowd-funding project, will be created with the latest Digital Publishing System (DPS) from Adobe that is revolutionizing the world of rich media delivery on portable devices like the iPad, Samsung Galaxy and ...
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Beatty's "Jazz: The Tiki Room" in Free Online Magazine
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Scott Beatty
Xeric winner Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: The Tiki Room fiction is featured in the free online magazine MuskegonOnline.NET this month only. The story, in a modernist retro style, follows jazz pianist Dean Fontessa as he pulls together—then splits apart—a five piece combo for a club recently decorated in that happening, new style called tiki. Spin a Miles vinyl and enjoy, dig? Find the story at the bottom left under the “Fiction" heading at http://muskegononline.net Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: Cool Birth, ...
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