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Grab a Free Copy of the New Rockstar Philosophy
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HypeBot
The crew at The New Rockstar Philosophy wants you to take their book while it's still free. On November 30, they're taking the download off their site. In the meantime, they're asking readers to help them with edits, suggestions, and spelling errors, among other things. Their goal is to emerge with a physical book; one the readers can buy and hold in their hands. I've interviewed Voyno and Hoover on Hypebot in the past. And, having read their book, I ...
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Book: Maynard Ferguson
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Ralph Junghem, Maynard! (Buster Ann). Jungheim's book is a collection of 30 transcribed reminiscences about the trumpeter and bandleader. Most of them are by musicians, but Ferguson's valet, bus driver and instrument maker also contribute. Some of the anecdotes are amusing, some interesting, some appalling. The exclamation point after his name in the title applies to Ferguson's spectacular playing and his ego. Even associates who had problems with his music and his insecurities had affection for him. The mystery of ...
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Book Review: ECM 40th Anniversary Catalog by Kenny Inaoka, Et. Al. Ed.
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Music and More by Tim Niland
ECM catalog by 稲岡 邦彌 A labor of love for all concerned, especially editor Kenny Inaoka and contributor Nobu Stowe, this lavishly illustrated catalog traces all of the albums released by the ECM label both in Europe and Japan and also provides complete discographical information for each album in English and commentary in Japanese. The catalog portion of the book is particularly interesting because it has full color reproductions of all of the album covers. ECM is well known now ...
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Photographer Juan-Carlos Hernandez's Book "Estelas de Jazz" Now Available in Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Juan Carlos Hernandez
After seven years of visually capturing jazz musicians around the world, Juan-Carlos Hernandez has compiled his first book of photos entitled Estelas de Jazz, available worldwide through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Hernandez collaborated with Spanish writer Belen Carmona Moreno whose literary writings accompany 100+ black and white photographs. Though the photographs are in the universal language, the text is in Spanish. Another important detail: Estelas de Jazz is not just about the stars of jazz like Ornette Coleman and ...
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New Publisher Scheduled To Release New Miles Davis Book
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DJ Marc Antomattei
DJ Antomattei, an American pro DJ residing in Tokyo, Japan has recently setup his own publishing house known as Marc Antomattei Press (MAP). The company is scheduled to release its first book during early 2011. Contrary to the first publication supposedly being a club and nightlife guide for the metropolis of Tokyo, the author had a change of mind to release another book he has been simultaneously working on instead. That book being about none other than the cool man ...
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The Boombox Project
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Music and technology have always behaved like two escapees from a Georgia chain gang. Battles were routine, but the shackled pair eventually came to their senses and realized that they weren't going to get far unless they learn to compromise and accommodate each other. Since the 1920s, American music has changed repeatedly with the development of the radio, records, phonograph, jukebox, car radio, television, portable record player, 8-track tape, the Walkman, the CD player, iTunes and the download. In the ...
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Jazz pianist Mika Pohjola releases "101 Compositions"
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Mika Pohjola
One Hundred One compositions by Mika Pohjola is one of most important musical statements to-date by the Finnish-born New York jazz pianist who also writes classical music. In 2009, Pohjola was cited as one of fifty “most influential pianists since 1990," by Jazz, a 700- page book on jazz history, authored by Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux. Pohjola has recorded a majority of his compositions with his own ensembles, featuring his contemporaries on the jazz scene, saxophonists Miguel Zenon, Steve ...
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Book Review: Djibouti by Elmore Leonard
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Djibouti by Elmore Leonard My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dara is a documentary film-maker based in New Orleans, after doing films on Hurricane Katrina and the war in Bosnia. When she turns her attention to the pirates hijacking ships off the coast of Africa she finds more than she bargained for. She and her partner Xavier head to Djibouti where they are quickly ensconced in a web of intrigue that involves hijackers, terrorists, wheelers, dealers and scam artists of ...
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