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12 Books That the Record Industry Needs to Read
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HypeBot
Grab a book off the list and enjoy it. Over the last few months, we've been asking some of the leading voices in our field to send in their summer reading lists for the Hypebot community. I won't go as far as to say that this is a definitive list of the books that the music and record industries needs to read, but it's certainly a good start. There's a couple of great titles missing that I'll try to call ...
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He, Too, Was America: Duke Ellington's Sepia Panorama
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David Brent Johnson
When it comes to biography, the life of pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington has presented a challenge worthy of its maestro's motto: “beyond category." Ellington was born in 1899 and died in 1974; in between, he merely led a world-class jazz orchestra for 50 years, wrote or co-wrote pieces that number in the thousands, and became one of the most significant artists the United States has ever produced—forget any mitigating prefixes such as “jazz" or “African-American." Yet those qualities ...
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Music Without Borders - Extraordinary Conversations with Extraordinary Musicians
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Abstract Logix
BJORK, CHUCK D, ANI DIFRANCO, BELA FLECK, MCCOY TYNER, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN AND 18 OTHER LEGENDARY MUSICIANS REVEAL UNIQUE, IN-DEPTH INSIGHTS IN INNERVIEWS: MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS BOOK—FOREWORD BY VICTOR WOOTEN Twenty-four of the world's most renowned musicians share incredibly candid, in-depth thoughts on the joy and pain of the creative process, their careers and aspirations, conflicts and collaborations, and the realities of today's music business in Innerviews: Music Without Borders, the first book by acclaimed music journalist Anil Prasad. Artists featured ...
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A Fine Vintage Wein
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
George Wein knew and/or worked with just about everyone in jazz over the last half century. His autobiography, Myself Among Others (Da Capo, 2004), written with Nate Chinen, is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the life of a jazz producer and sometime performer. Wein grew up in the Boston area and opened the Storyville Club there in 1950. But he is the creator, most famously, of the Newport Jazz Festival, which helped take the popularity of jazz to a whole ...
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David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries Audiobook 9/28
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JamBase
PAPERBACK AND E-BOOK AVAILABLE THE SAME DAY David Byrne's bestselling Viking Press hardcover, Bicycle Diaries, will be released as an enhanced audiobook September 28 with pre-orders beginning today. Offered exclusively at www.bicycle-diaries.com, this new edition is narrated by Byrne and features music (by Byrne) and location sounds to create an atmosphere more akin to a radio show than a simple reading of the book. Presented in podcast-style downloads, the listener will have a choice to purchase individual chapters or the ...
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Paste Magazine Suspends Print Publication
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HypeBot
Music magazine Paste announced yesterday that it will no longer publish a print edition. “Struggles with mounting debt were made public last year when our readers responded with generosity to save the magazine. But the prolonged downturn of the ad market has forced a hiatus," according to a post on the site. Moving to web-only has hurt other publications, but the magazine's staff vows to fight on. “Paste, while considering strategic alternatives, is focusing on its digital assets, including PasteMagazine.com." ...
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Jimi Hendrix: Nobody Cages Me!
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Corey Washington
New book shows how Jimi's music expanded deep into other genres besides Rock 40 Yrs. After his death, Jimi's influence is still felt! Augusta, GA—From author Corey Washington comes a book for die hard Hendrix fans, those sitting on the fence, and outsiders looking in. Forty years after Jimi's untimely death (Sept. 18th, 1970), Nobody Cages Me! explores his unassuming, yet ubiquitous influence over the genres of Jazz, Funk, R&B, and yes, even Hip-Hop. Jimi Hendrix is primarily looked at ...
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Book Review - Warning Shadows - Home Alone with Classic Cinema - By Gary Giddins
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AAJ Staff
Scratch a film critic, and you're likely to find a jazz buff. That the opposite is also true was suggested as far back as the 1930s by Otis Ferguson, the startlingly prescient critic who covered jazz, when it was a genuinely popular art, along with Hollywood movies, then entering their classical phase, for The New Republic. It's demonstrated again by Gary Giddins, the eminent jazz critic of The Village Voice from 1973 to 2003, and more recently the DVD columnist ...
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