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Backbeat Books Publishes "Here and Now!: The Autobiography of Pat Martino"
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Chris M. Slawecki
The world (and the world's bookstores) are full of comeback stories, both real and fictional, but few can hold a candle to Here and Now! The Autobiography of Pat Martino (Applause Books; $24.99). Written with jazz journalist Bill Milkowski, legendary jazz guitar master Pat Martino tells the remarkable story of his comeback from a brain aneurysm that took his memory and nearly took his life. By age 16, Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's ...
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Esthetes d'Affiches - Tribute to the Montreux Jazz Festival posters' designers
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tordjman
David Bowie, Phil Collins, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Milton Glaser, James Rizzi, Romero Britto, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Burton Morris, Zep... the greatest painters, graphic designers, photographers and contemporary artists designed the posters of the Montreux Jazz Festival. On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, these graphic creations are collected for the first time in one book. Jean-Jacques Tordjman has chosen to join the verb to accompany every artwork by an original literary ...
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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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