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Paul Slaughter Jazz Photographs: 1969 - 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
June 26, 2010

Paul Slaughter / Jazz Photographs 1969-2010, with a Foreword by the renowned jazz musician Charles Lloyd, is now published. Go to blurb.com to take a sneak preview of the book. Order a copy if you are so inclined. The hard cover book with dust jacket is 12x12 inches (larger than the preview), 80 pages, with 81 photographs of jazz greats, including classic images of Miles, Dizzy, and Duke, to more modern images of Redman, Metheny, Lloyd and Marsalis. Photographs are ...

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Nat Hentoff: At the Jazz Band Ball

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 2, 2010

Nat Hentoff and I talk often but usually in quick bursts, since we're both always chasing a deadline. What I love most about the dean of jazz journalism is his locomotive energy and kite-flying spirit. Nat, of course, penned some of the most insightful jazz essays and books of the post-war period, including Jazz Is, Listen to the Stories, Journey Into Jazz and Boston Boy. Each time I speak with Nat, I find him enormously optimistic, infectiously excited and ferociously ...

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Gabrielle Goodman Releases New Book: "Vocal Improvisation"

Source: Michael Ricci
June 10, 2010

Gabrielle Goodman, professor at Berklee College and recording artist has just released her first work as an author with “Vocal Improvisation"(Techniques in Jazz, R&B & Gospel Improvisation). This exciting book features scat exercises in the style of Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter, lessons in blues singing, and soulful R&B exercises in the style of Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin. “Vocal Improvisation" also includes helpful information on bridging the gap between classical and non-classical singing and much more! “Vocal ...

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Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw

Source: Michael Ricci
June 9, 2010

Artie Shaw, the swing eras other great clarinetist, knew just about every romantic self-immolator in the history of jazz.

He roomed with both Bix Beiderbecke and Bunny Berigan, he hired Billie Holiday to sing with his band and at least by his own account he turned down Charlie Parkers bid to join his saxophone section. (I said, Bird, you couldn't play in my band, you're too much of an individualist! ) Superficially, Shaw couldn't have been less like these doom-bound ...

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Dennis Hopper: Photographs, 1961-1967

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2010

I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it's really these photographs, that kept me going creatively. - Dennis Hopper

The Sixties In all their turbulence and revelation, have been documented many times over but the photographic recollections of actor/artist/director Dennis Hopper have set themselves decidedly apart. Now an undisputed icon of the era, Hopper captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York June 2010 Issue Now Available!

Source: Michael Ricci
May 29, 2010

Despite the burgeoning reputations of other cities, New York still remains the jazz capital of the world, if only for sheer volume. A night in NYC is a month, if not more, anywhere else - an astonishing amount of music packed in its 305 square miles (Manhattan only 34 of those!). This is normal for the city but this month, there's even more, seams bursting with amazing concerts.

Summer is traditionally festival season but never in recent memory have there ...

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The B.B. King Treasures: Photos, Mementos & Music from B. B. King's Collection

Source: All About Jazz
May 28, 2010

In 1947, with a two-and-a-half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, Riley B. King, a sharecropper moonlighting as a blues and gospel musician, hitchhiked to Memphis from his home in Indianola, Mississippi.

Today, after touring the world as an ambassador of the blues for more than half a century, B. B. King is a living legend.

Like a celebration thrown by B.B. for his countless fans, published for the occasion of his 80th birthday, The B. ...

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Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures

Source: All About Jazz
May 28, 2010

Like a celebration thrown by B.B. for his countless fans, published for the occasion of his 80th birthday, The B. B. King Treasures brings remembrances, photos, and rare and personal memorabilia together in a magnificent collection from his life and career.

In 1947, with a two-and-a-half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, Riley B. King, a sharecropper moonlighting as a blues and gospel musician, hitchhiked to Memphis from his home in Indianola, Mississippi. Today, after touring ...

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