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"David Baker: A Legacy in Music" By Monika Herzig, with a Foreword by Quincy Jones
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Michael Ricci
From Studio to Stage with One of the World's Best-Loved Living Legends in Music BLOOMINGTON, Ind. A Living Legend, musician, educator, and composer David Baker has made a distinctive mark on the world of music in his nearly 60-year career—as performer (chiefly on trombone and cello), educator, composer, and conductor. In this richly illustrated volume accompanied by a full-length CD, with a foreword by Quincy Jones, Monika Herzig explores Baker's artistic legacy, from his days as a jazz musician in ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida October 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 October 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: Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz Explosion Béla Fleck and ...
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The life and times of Papa Jo Jones, gifted raconteur and one of the greatest drummers in the history of jazz
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Anne Klingbeil
Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones By Papa Jo Jones As Told to Albert Murray Edited by Paul Devlin Afterword by Phil Schaap University of Minnesota Press Available: October 2011 The things that I have, I'll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jones—or as the world better knows ...
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Jeremy Steig's New Digital Picture Books with Soundtrack
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Jeremy Steig
The new digital picture books (for viewing on your computer display) by Jeremy Steig feature his drawings and music and are available for download from DL-MARKET, one of Japan's biggest digital content markets. These picture books can be a great way to introduce jazz to children, and also a wonderful opportunity to enjoy Jeremy's art and music with original stories by Asako. The picture books are sold at the Coffee Break Theater of Jeremy's website. Each digital picture book runs ...
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Pianist David Haney Purchases Cadence Magazine
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Seattle Jazz Scene
It has been a busy summer for David Haney, pianist, composer, and sometimes Seattleite. In July, he completed his 13th and 14th albums for the New York-based C.I.M.P. Records and Cadence Jazz Records, featuring drum legend Andrew Cyrille and bassist Dominic Duval. He was also featured on the July cover of Cadence magazine. Not long after, Haney purchased Cadence upon learning that it had plans to cease publication. Cadence is a thorough on-going documentation of the improvised music scene for ...
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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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