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Here and now with jazz master Pat Martino
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Michael Ricci
67-year-old jazz guitarist Pat Martino lives in the same home his parents raised him in on 16th Street in South Philadelphia. But all of those memories have been erased for Martino, who suffered an aneurysm in 1979. The resulting surgery to save his life removed 60-percent of his temporal lobe, and with it, most recollection of his life to that point. At that time Martino was 35 years old, had already released some 12 albums and toured the world, yet ...
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"Harlem Jazz Adventures" Set for January 2012 Release
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Chris M. Slawecki
COPENHAGEN: The first English edition of Harlem Jazz Adventures—A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969, is set for release in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in January.
Timme Rosenkrantz, the author, was a young Danish baron, son of a distinguished family, and the first European journalist to cover New York's blossoming Harlem music scene during the period when jazz was urban America's popular music.
Baron Rosenkrantz was a dapper, 24-year-old redhead tipping his hat when he arrived by steamship ...
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The Last Sultan: A Portrait of Ahmet Ertegun as the Great Seducer
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HypeBot
"The Last Sultan," Robert Greenfield's biography of iconic Atlantic Record's founder Ahmet Ertegun, offers a very readable account of a man whose career began in the 1940s with recordings of African American music, extending through the development of rock and into the digital age. His work was cut short only by his death in 2006; and before the end of this somewhat worshipful account, one has the picture of a man who had both a great sense of what made ...
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"If You Like The Beatles..." (Backbeat Books)
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Stephen M. Thornton
"Pollock is perhaps the most important scholar of American pop music." —Greg Shaw, Bomp Bookshelf The Beatles are arguably the most influential cultural phenomena of the 20th century. They inspired countless bands that followed in their wake. But who inspired the Beatles? Author Bruce Pollock tackled that question in his latest book, If You Like The Beatles... (Backbeat Books). If You Like The Beatles... explores the influences and impact of “The Fab Four." Appropriately enough, the decision to use the ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida December 2011 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. The November 2011 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com. This month's edition can be read in .pdf format, as well as in a new and improving web-page presentation. This month's preview features include: Main Feature: Matt “Guitar" Murphy Danelectro Vs. Tomcat Blake Dillengers ...
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"The Insanity Hoax; Exposing the Myth of the Mad Genius" by Dr. Judith Schlesinger is Now Available
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Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Are you musicians crazy, or just creative? New book provides liberating answers to these old questions Psychologist, musician, and long-time All About Jazz contributor Dr. Judith Schlesinger has finished The Insanity Hoax; Exposing the Myth of the Mad Genius. Based on thirty years of scholarly research as well as creative and therapeutic experience (but a fun read, by all reports), the book is now available at Amazon. Creative does not equal Crazy There's a long-running and cherished expectation that the ...
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The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for Turning Your Art into a Career
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HypeBot
Artspire, a web community that provides such services to artists as fiscal sponsorship and a platform for soliciting donations, recently released “The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts." The Profitable Artist is a more solid offering than most of the business of art type books I've checked out in the past with a take on such topics as the SWOT analysis and negotiations that should be particularly useful for DIY musicians that ...
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'Clark' is the Autobiography of a Jazz Giant
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RJ on Jazz by R.J. DeLuke
Clark Terry Tells His Story Clark Terry is one of the bright, indomitable spirits in American music. Of course, jazz is his specialty and he's never run from the term or tried to change or over-explain it. He embraces jazz and is unabashed about his love for it. That's obvious to anyone who's seen him perform over several decades. It's reinforced and embellished in his autobiography released this year, simply titled Clark (University of California Press), written with the assistance ...
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