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Jazz & Blues Florida January 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. This edition marks the first edition of the fourth year of operating completely online. The January 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: ...
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"Half-Blood Blues," A Novel by Esi Edugyan
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Justin Hargett
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST 2011 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE “Unforgettable... Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal... [A] brilliantly fast-moving novel." —The Times (London) “Shines with knowledge, emotional insight, and historical revisionism... Truly extraordinary in its evocation of time and place, its ...
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Rick Britto Releases a Contemporary Jazz CD "For Your Love"
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Rick Britto
For Your Love featuring jazz saxophonist, Rick Britto is a Contemporary Jazz recording of all fresh and exciting originals songs for lovers to enjoy! The album covers many styles of Contemporary Jazz music crossing from R&B and Soul to Funk and Hip Hop even Reggae and Latin grooves which all make up the foundation of the recording. The recording features some of Britto's dear friends from near and a far as guest artist throughout the album. Composer and producer, Nesta ...
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The Free Internet Archive Of “Jazz Forum” Magazine Now Avaiilable Online
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Norek
In November, 2011, the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation launched the polishjazzarch.com internet site. The site provides online access to the full contents of “JAZZ FORUM" magazine issues from the first 24 years of its publication in all three language editions: Polish (1965-1989) and international: in English (1967-1989) and German (1976-1981). The internet archive comprises more than 15,000 pages, in total + 265 issues of “JAZZ FORUM" magazine, including: Interviews with major artists representing various musical styles and genres, such as: Miles ...
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Barry Cleveland Publishes eBook Second Edition of Cult Classic Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques
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Barry Cleveland
Veteran music journalist Barry Cleveland (currently an editor at Guitar Player magazine) has published the Second Edition of his now cult classic—Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques—as an eBook, available via Apple iBooks, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble for $4.99. Joe Meek's Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition, and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and a newly restored and remastered version of Meek’s legendary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear a New World. Joe Meek ...
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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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