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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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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases his first children's book
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Romeo Corsi
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases his first children's book. The NBA's all time leading scorer champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in a fascinating new children's book. What Color is my World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors Did you know that James West's technology is in the microphone of your cell phone? Or that Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? That Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing pain for countless people? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators ...
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Armen Donelian's New Book, "Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass," Just Published by Advance Music
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass, the third instructional book by veteran pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Armen Donelian, has just been published by Advance Music. Written in a conversational tone, the book “offers practical guidance grounded on principles of music theory, rhythm, analysis and composition as well as physics, anatomy and holistic development," Donelian writes in the book's final chapter. Although “this is not the first attempt to examine these subjects in writing, nor will it be the last," he ...
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Spin Magazine Replaces Most Album Reviews with 140 Character Tweets
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HypeBot
Spin Magazine, the 26 year old music magazine once known for it's counter-culture reporting (today known to be more pop-culture centered), has announced that it will be moving a large portion its album reviews over to Twitter, with more than 1,500 album reviews this year alone arriving as 140-character tweets. The magazine has said, however, that it will continue to post roughly 20 full reviews each month on their website. Spin will be pulling the majority of reviews out of its ...
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