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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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DRUM! Magazine Continues Its Metal Ride With Mastodon’s Brann Dailor Discussing Hitting On “The Hunter”
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif.,—With its last several issues of DRUM!, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of high-quality informative magazines on drumming and the world's top drummers, in print and online, has been on a hard-rock/metal roll. It started two issues ago with Anthrax's Charlie Benante, followed by Evanescence's Will Hunt, and now, DRUM! presents a holiday season cover with Mastodon's heavy hitter, Brann Dailor. Authored by Andrew Nusca, “In The Time Of Brann" gives the reader a complete perspective on Dailor's drumming ...
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Dark Magus, by Gregory Davis, to be basis for feature film on his father
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Michael Ricci
MONTCLAIR, NJ: Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis, Gregory Davis's no-holds-barred look at his father's life, published by Backbeat Books in 2006, will be the basis of feature film being developed by George Tillman, Jr., director of Notorious. Gregory Davis will serve as a consultant on the film, which will be called “Miles Davis." In Dark Magus, the younger Davis takes a warts-and-all look at the real Miles Davis, stripping away the public perception of his ...
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New book: Picture Infinity - Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra
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aurelia boro
Multi-instrumentalist Marshall Allen is among the most striking voices in jazz. His explosive alto saxophone is signature sound of the Sun Ra Arkestra, an iconic African-American big band which he joined in 1958. Succeeding the bands legendary founder Sun Ra who already in his lifetime has turned into a myth of its own, Marshall Allen has directed the Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995. Under the guidance of the 87-year old maestro, the Sun Ra Arkestra has not only survived all ...
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