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New Book by Former St. Louisan Examines Relationship Between Jazz and Photography
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Former St. Louisan Benjamin Cawthra, who curated the 2001 exhibition “Miles: A Miles Davis Retrospective" for the Missouri History Museum, has just published a new book called Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz via the University of Chicago Press. Cawthra, now an associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton, lived in St. Louis for 16 years and earned a Ph.D in history from Washington ...
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New Book Chronicles the Life and Times of NEA Jazz Master David Baker
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—David Baker has received just about every honor imaginable in his 60-year career as a jazz musician and educator. The Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has recorded extensively, been acclaimed for his playing, writing and arranging, and done more than just about anyone to establish and shape college-level teaching of jazz. He has been named a national Living Jazz Legend, an Indiana Living Legend and a NEA Jazz Master. And he is the author ...
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Enter Music Publishing Has a DRUM! Déjà Vu With Charlie Benante: Smashing The Cover Then And Now
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif.,—Anniversaries can often bring reflection. And, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines, worldwide and online, is no exception as it celebrates 20 years of publishing DRUM!. Two issues ago, the magazine had Chad Smith on the cover, discussing new Peppers percussion. Indeed, appropriate since Smith has been on the cover of DRUM! more than any other drummer. So, it's quite apropos, that its October issue features Anthrax drummer, Charlie Benante, since it was 20 years ago ...
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Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry
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Michael Ricci
Clark Terry (Author), Gwen Terry (Editor), Bill Cosby (Foreword), Quincy Jones (Preface) Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his ...
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Foruli Publish Hand-bound Limited Edition Bill Bruford Autobiography
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Lori Hehr Public Relations
Drummer Bill Bruford of Yes, King Crimson and Earthworks has entered the bespoke Publishing market with a limited edition package of his best-selling autobiography. Each set is individually hand signed by Bill and includes an exclusive new double vinyl album, From Conception to Birth. Those ordering at foruli.co.uk before mid November will receive a 10% discount. Here are the details: Edition limited to 500 A hand signed and numbered hand bound limited edition book Hand printed book cover with ...
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New Book from LSU Press: Traditional New Orleans Jazz...
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Thomas W. Jacobsen
Longtime New Orleans jazz journalist has recently published a book, Traditional New Orleans Jazz, Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music (LSU Press, 2011). Baton Rouge, LA- About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. In Traditional New Orleans Jazz veteran jazz journalist Thomas Jacobsen discusses the music's legacy with a who's who of the present-day scene's players, from Lionel Ferbos—the city's oldest working jazz ...
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Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty
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Michael Ricci
Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted and expansive figure's life and work. Schuller began composing music at an early age and joined the Cincinnati Symphony as its principal French horn player at seventeen. Since then he has written for many major orchestras and his ...
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"Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club" Photographs and Interviews by Kathy Sloane; Edited by Sascha Feinstein and Kathy Sloane
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Michael Ricci
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. In the December 2005 issue of Jazz Times, esteemed jazz critic Nat Hentoff presented a challenge to writers: “There should be a book about those jazz clubs that have been a vital part of the evolution of the music... with reminiscences by the musicians who played and hung out there." Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club answers this summons. During the 1970s, when jazz clubs all over America were folding under the onslaught of rock and roll ...
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