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David Kastin's "Nica's Dream"
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
David Kastin, Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness (Norton). US patrons of the arts generally fund institutions. In the tradition of European wealth, Pannonica de Koenigswarter helped individuals. She supported and befriended, among others, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk. She shocked her peers and the public, lost her husband and did inestimable good for jazz. Despite her childrens' refusal to cooperate, Kastin tells Nica's story well—her escape from the stuffy Rothschild milieu, her war ...
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"The History Of Jazz" Second Edition By Ted Gioia
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Michael Ricci
The History of Jazz, Second Edition is a tale of giants: Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's advocacy of modern jazz in the 1940s, Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, all the way to the postmodernists of the current day. Along the way, readers are treated to vivid descriptions of the best venues and shows. ...
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Dysfunctional: Life Journeys of a Second Generation Jazz Musician
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Dysfunctional is the curious title of a gritty and revealing autobiography written figurative minutes before the passing on to ancestry of a Kansas City treasure, master saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen. Subtitled “life journeys of a second generation jazz musician," that's precisely where Alaadeen places himself in the jazz lineage—among the second generation of musicians who came up through the world of music, likely because he was among the generation that came up at the tail end of the so-called swing era ...
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Saxophonist & Social Activist Fred Ho Chronicles Transformation into "Radical Cancer Warrior"
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Chris M. Slawecki
DIARY OF A RADICAL CANCER WARRIOR: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level by Fred Ho; Foreword by Magdalena Gómez; Introduction by Cynthia Franklin “It's not every day you run into a musician who joins a protean range of talents—as a composer, saxophonist, writer, and bandleader—with a commitment to Marxist ideology." —The New Yorker “Pioneering." —Los Angeles Times “[Ho] achieves his cross-cultural goals with skill, grace, and humor...[he] has an audacious integrity." —The New York Times Civilization as we ...
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Stve Slagle "Scenes, Songs & Solos"
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Chris M. Slawecki
Scenes, Songs & Solos: A Composition and Improvisation Workbook for the Creative Musician by Steve Slagle “Steve Slagle speaks of things that need to be heard."—Joe Lovano “Full of fresh, original, and inspirational ideas about music and life."— Randy Brecker “I loved this book! And I'm not even a professional musician."—Sue Mingus Master jazz saxophonist, educator (Manhattan School of Music), award-winning composer and arranger Steve Slagle draws on years of experience to create—in one song-packed, illustrated workbook—an original guide to ...
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Blues Musician/ Horror AuthorThomas Malafarina's Short Story Collection "Gallery Of Horror" Published By Sunbury Press
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Just Roots PR
Sunbury Press has released Thomas M. Malafarina's latest book Gallery of Horror, a short story collection based on the dark art of Keyser, West Virginia's Nunzio Barbera. About the Book: From 1970 to 1973, the television network NBC aired a program called “Night Gallery" hosted by Rod Serling who was best know for the series “The Twilight Zone" during the 1950s and 1960s. Each week, the show started with Rod standing in front of a work of disturbing artwork displayed ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida September 2011 Online Edition Now Available
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Michael Ricci
Jazz & Blues Florida, the free, online guide to live jazz & blues across the state of Florida, has posted the August edition at JazzBluesFlorida.com . The artists featured, that all have shows in Florida during the month of August, are: WINNING SPIN: Silvano Monasterios Paulette Dozier Daryl Sherman and Jay Leonhardt Nate Najar Trio Shannon Powell Quartet Troy Roberts Double Quartet Hot Tuna Doug Deming ...
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Veteran Publicist Cheryl Hughey Teaches Emerging Music Artists Tricks of the Trade in New Ebooklet
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Cheryl Hughey Promotions
Veteran music publicist Cheryl Hughey has just released a new ebooklet, “Music Promotion for Everyone, Volume 1." Designed to fit the growing needs of music students, this short collection of essays covers the subjects of leadership, salesmanship, marketing, communication skills, roles of industry professionals, appearance bookings and social media. “The lessons are designed to give the developing artist a solid foundation in the key business skills needed to survive in the highly competitive entertainment marketplace," said the author. “Music Promotion ...
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