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Wax Poetics - Issue 46
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
The great Wax Poetics has come out with one of its best ever issues with its marvelous 46th. This issue's theme is “Jazz's Mad Men"—presumably tied to guys who came out of the '60s when TV's Mad Men takes place—and has any number of features of interest that nearly all of today's jazz press avoids completely including features or interviews with the cover's Georges (Benson and Duke) as well as Billy Cobham, Norman Connors, Tom Browne, Bernard Wright, Don Blackman, ...
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Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond by Peter King (Northway Books)
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Ann Cotterrell
Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With unsparing self-analysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. Internationally recognised as a jazz star, Peter King has ...
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Travis Barker The Talk Of Tinsel Town, But Enter Music Publishing Traps Him Again During "Travis Barker" Week From April 18 To 25
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif.,—Travis Barker consistently keeps the media and the drumming community fascinated. Whether it's his latest hip-hop record, Blink-182 reunions, plane crashes, or reality TV he never stays far from the public eye. That's why Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines, worldwide and online, will celebrate “Travis Barker Week," from April 18 to the 25th on its web site. (drummagazine.com) Each day, the company will feature recent and older, archived stories about Travis' career. The editorial content ...
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100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business
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Moses Supposes
Tweet 100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business is truly the first book for every music business professional, established or aspiring. The guide book is structured to take you from garage to Grammy. Each section addresses the issues and challenges faced in the five basic phases of every recording career. (Including: I Just Joined a Band, I Just Made My First Lousy Deal, I’m About to Sign My First Real Deal, I Want Out of This Deal, and Will ...
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Enter Music Publishing's Drummies Hit Hard: 4600 Drummers Cast Votes Since March 10
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines, worldwide and online, is reporting very strong voting returns during the initial voting period for its 16th Annual Drummies. According to surveymonkey, approximately 4600 drummers have cast votes in the 42 categories that comprise the Drummies since March 10, 2011. This strong voting return should result in a new Drummies record for participation as compared to last year since there are still three weeks of voting time. As noted ...
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Cross-Post: Jazz and Food
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Music and More by Tim Niland
One of my colleagues is an avid foodie, with an excellent blog called Oh! You Cook! She recently uncovered a cookbook called Jazz Cooks and asked me if I would like to cross-post with her about jazz and food. The recipes she picked from the cookbook belong to jazz legends Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine and Rashied Ali. Since I can't seem to cook anything without the fire department becoming involved, I'll leave the cooking to her, and concentrate on the ...
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Grammy-Award Winning Jazz Musician, Irvin Mayfield Sends "A Love Letter To New Orleans"
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Lura Belle Productions
Deluxe multi-media coffee-table book and CD package chronicles Mayfield's artistic quest and development into one of America's most promising young jazz musicians. A Love Letter to New Orleans is also available as a CD. A Love Letter to New Orleans will be released nationally through Amazon and select retailers on April 26, 2011. A series of local book release parties will be held at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival on March 27 at The Palm Court Jazz Café in New ...
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Recent Jazz Books
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet by Randall Sandke: To say this book has been controversial among the jazz scene would be quite an understatement. Commentary by Ethan Iverson and Chris Kelsey have thrust this book into the spotlight. It's a much needed conversation, too. Jazz has always been split with racial (and gender) fault lines throughout its history, and Sandke's thesis is that the music has really been integrated since the beginning, in opposition to the oft-cited view ...
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