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Neil Young: Illustrated History Book and Tour Dates
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JamBase
NEIL YOUNG: LONG MAY YOU RUN BY DANIEL DURCHHOLZ & GARY GRAFF 1ST COMPLETE “ILLUSTRATED HISTORY" BOOK ON ROCK'S MOST INFLUENTIAL AND ENDEARING TRAILBLAZER CELEBRATES FIVE DECADES IN WORDS AND PHOTOS / SUMMER 2010 TOUR
Neil Young Voyageur Press has joined forces with renowned rock journalists Daniel Durchholz (Rolling Stone) and Gary Graff (New York Times) for the brand new book, Neil Young - Long May You Run: The Illustrated History. This lovingly assembled tome - ...
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Marilyn Monroe in Her Own Words
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Michael Ricci
On Tuesday, publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced that it would be publishing Marilyn Monroe's writings in a new book, “Fragments," this fall. “She was a great reader and someone with real writing flair," editor Courtney Hodell told the Associated Press. “There are fragments of poetry that are really quite beautiful, lines that stop you in your tracks." Monroe was married three times: to James Dougherty, four years her senior when she was just 16; later, to baseball great Joe ...
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Los Angeles Times Book Festival at UCLA Weekend
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Michael Ricci
Authors and publishers address the biggest issues facing the print medium in the age of technology.
In an age when economic downturns and new technology pose huge challenges to the publishing world, public events like the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend at UCLA offer a different type of interactivity than can be found either on the page or screen. The book business has taken a beating in the national recession, and the latest figures from the Assn. ...
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"South Rock" by Kiki Lee-- Book Condensed for Easy Reading Online
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Just Roots PR
Forward ~ The beginning of a new career in Rock and Roll.
Chapter 1 ~ After launching several Indy label hits in 1967 Atlantic Records recruited Dick Wooley to head their record promotion in the Southeast and Midwest. Dick helped Atlantic launch several legendary Rhythm & Blues and Rock artists, many who are now inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Chapter 2 ~ The adventure.
Chapter 3 ~ Working with Atlantic Records distributed Capricorn Productions Dick was ...
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Angels on My Stage: The True Story of Eddie Benitez
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Michael Ricci
Angels on My Stage: The True Story of Eddie Benitez, the autobiography of legendary guitarist Eddie Benitez, is now out on Kindle Books at Amazon.com. Angels on My Stage is a memoir with a mission: It is the extraordinary life story of a celebrated recording artist—Eddie Benitez. But it is much more than a typical celebrity memoir; it is a book filled with stories and events that go far beyond the music industry and a guitarist's memorable life filled with ...
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"Blue Moment" Examines Influence of "Kind of Blue"
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All About Jazz
“The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music" (W.W Norton), by Richard Williams
Richard Williams acknowledges early on in “The Blue Moment" that there is not much more to say about Miles Davis' jazz masterpiece “Kind of Blue" that hasn't already been covered in two 2001 books by other authors. Rather, his book is an attempt to examine the groundbreaking album's impact on the music that followed it: “Like the ripples from ...
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Harvey Pekar on Sonny Stitt
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Following my post on Sonny Stitt two weeks ago, I received an email from reader Joel Lewis. In his note, Joel mentioned underground comic-book writer Harvey Pekar, whose life's struggles were the basis of American Splendor (2003), a must-see film starring Paul Giamatti. The point of Joel's note was to hip me to a series of ingenious frames from one of Pekar's strips that mentioned Stitt and his proclivity for cranking out similar-sounding albums in the 1960s and 1970s. (Pekar's ...
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Cakewalk Tells History Through Mystery
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Michael Ricci
Cakewalk is an historical novel destined to be a new classic not only because of its riveting murder mystery, but also because it unlocks a deeply hidden chapter of American musical, cultural and business history. In the 192-page book, debuting April 17 at Marcus Books, 1712 Fillmore Street in San Francisco during Jazz Appreciation Month, author John William Templeton overcame his own skepticism to go against the grain of a century of conventional wisdom about the origins of jazz music. ...
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