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Brad Mehldau: Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven and God
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AAJ Staff
Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven and God I have written an article for the new magazine, The Scope. The Scope is an internationally distributed English language magazine with writing that focuses on travel, environment, geopolitics, arts and culture. The graphic design of the magazine and the photography are beautiful and other contributors to the magazine so far include Noam Chomsky. I am proud to have my writing published by The Scope and it's a fantastic publication—have a look. —Brad Mehldau Read ...
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Esteban Sehinkman: The Real Book Argentina
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Esteban Sehinkman is one of the great forces on the Buenos Aires scene. His Real Book Argentina has gathered compositions by 194 (and counting!) Argentine and Uruguayan musicians. His studio, Corrientes 2014, hosts underground concerts by some of the city's best musicians. He plays keyboards on Guillermo Klein's Domador de Huellas. And he leads the funktastic El Sapo Argentino trio. Macropunto (El Sueño de Nikima) Eric Benson: How did you get the idea for the Real Book Argentina? Esteban Sehinkman: ...
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Have You Ever Wanted to Give Another Living Creature a Second Chance at Life?
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Chris M. Slawecki
From All About Jazz Senior Editor Chris M. Slawecki “It's one of the most challenging things I've ever done, but certainly one of the most rewarding," words spoken by an adopter of a puppy mill breeder dog in one of many journeys shared through Puppy Mill Dogs SPEAK! Happy Stories and Helpful Advice, written by Christine Palm Shaughness and edited by Chris M. Slawecki, who has served as AllAboutJazz.com Senior Editor since 1997. Jazz lovers and dog lovers alike will ...
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Aural History
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
For fans of Miles Davis's legendary 1959 record, and for jazz fans in general, Ashley Kahn's Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece is a compelling read. It's an insider's look at people involved in the recording of this most popular of jazz records, including never-before-seen session photos. Kahn provides some historical context on Miles Davis's development as a trumpet player from the tentative late 1940s dates with Charlie Parker, through finding his own sound in the ...
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Late Summer Reading on Music, Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Prohiphop's Clyde Smith
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HypeBot
As part of our summer series of reading lists from industry leaders Clyde Smith of ProHipHop and Hip Hop Press shares his late summer choices.
I'd like to share four books with you that I find of interest and I think will be well worth reading for anyone who likes to think deeply and act on those thoughts in the fields of music, marketing and entrepreneurship. Bonus: my discussion of the final book on the list, Good To Great, also ...
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Carei F. Thomas' New Book - "Compositions and Concepts"
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All About Jazz
About Compositions and Concepts by Carei F. Thomas I love composing, performing and sharing out of the midst of living and align myself with a cause and effect philosophy, exemplifying process and product as one and concluding the journey and destination are the same. There have been many stages in my development with my compositions going back and forth conceptually from simple songs, to investigations of complex methodologies, to experimentation with mathematical and visual paradigms. This pendulum motion supports ...
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Boomerang: Comic Novel Features Jazz Musicians
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Michael Ricci
Boomerang is a comic novel of international intrigue with two down on their luck jazz musicians as its inadvertent heroes. Ted Hogwood is a former NBA power forward who desperately needs to get his Gibson L5-CES guitar out of hock and Jerry Kwiatkowski, a disciple of Jimmy Smith, is just desperate for some rent money, not to mention his B-3 was stolen and he needs a replacement. They accept an assignment from a not-quite legitimate branch of United States Intelligence ...
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