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Kenny Davern: Just Four Bars
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Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman
Readers accustomed to novels may find most jazz biographies only intermittently satisfying. Lives, of course, cannot be arranged into dramatic arcs worthy of Trollope or Faulkner—but, just the same, the chronicle of the life and music of your favorite musician often has all its drama in the beginning: attempts to find a personal style, to become proficient, to be recognized. Once the musician is reasonably successful, the narrative might become a listing of gigs, concerts, recordings. Some musicians aid a ...
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Douglas Rushkoff: "If You Are Not a Programmer, then You Are One of the Programmed."
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HypeBot
(UPDATED) I've been granted a fascinating and awesome opportunity to take an online class hosted by one of the leading technology and media critics of our time Douglas Rushkoff, author of my favorite book Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back and the man behind documentaries such as Merchants of Cool and Digital Nation, both of which can be streamed online. In releasing his new book Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for ...
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Books: Coltrane on Coltrane
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris DeVito This fascinating book gathers together all known and available interviews with the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The volume is arranged chronologically, beginning with a few newspaper articles during his career as a sideman with the likes of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, and then moving on to his meteoric rise as a bandleader and progressive force in jazz. The most interesting aspect of the book is the difficulty in ...
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Book: Nat Hentoff
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Nat Hentoff, At The Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene (U of California Press). Hentoff is our leading avatar of the proposition that jazz is a living expression of the principles embedded in the US constitution, of which he is also a scholar. He does not deal in technical analysis of music. He gives strong, informed opinions and tells stories about those he knew or knows intimately, among them Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Clark ...
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Book blog: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band
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Bob Gluck
A new book in progress by Bob Gluck traces the evolution of Herbie Hancock's music through 1973, focusing on the Mwandishi band. The title is: You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). The blog discusses the most poignant issues that have arisen in the process of writing the book, which should be out in a year. Herbie Hancock has always followed his own muse. During the Mwandishi period, 1970-1973, his ...
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Chasing the African Rhythms
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
African Rhythms, the as-told-to autobiography of the NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston (composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins; Duke University Press) is set for October release to the retail marketplace. In the meantime we have embarked on the first in a series of forthcoming book signings and other book-related events coupled with Weston performances. The series kicked-off on September 17 at the beautiful Rubin Museum in Manhattan, where Randy performed a trio concert followed by a book signing. ...
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Enter Music Publishing Presses "Rock Royalty Issue" Featuring Tommy Lee And John Bonham; Looking Back And Drumming Forward
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif.,—Enter Music Publishing, publishers of DRUM!, has published a very special “Rock Royalty" Issue. Featuring kings of the throne, Mötely Crüe's Tommy Lee and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, DRUM! explores the impact of these percussion heroes in the present and the past. And to celebrate the rock royalty issue Enter Music Publishing is offering free downloads of an out-of-print mini-book, Like Father, Like Son, featuring John and Jason Bonham. In a journalistic feat of magic, DRUM!'s editors culled ...
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Taylor Ho Bynum + Vasco Gato at BYPASS #2 Launch: Sao Luiz Theatre, Lisbon, Portugal
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Alvaro Seica
LAUNCH BYPASS #2 Performance by Taylor Ho Bynum & Vasco Gato Curators Álvaro Seiça Neves & Gaëlle Silva Marques Teatro São Luiz | Winter Garden | Lisbon, Portugal Monday, October 4, 7 pm BYPASS presents, on the day of the launch of its 2nd issue, the music concert/performance between the North American musician Taylor Ho Bynum and the Portuguese poet Vasco Gato. TAYLOR HO BYNUM (Baltimore, USA, 1975) Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet ...
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