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AllAboutJazz-New York April 2010 Issue Now Available!

Source: Michael Ricci
March 27, 2010

Whoever decides such things, it's nice that Jazz Appreciation Month happens in April. After a long winter of hibernation, that the emerging masses are encouraged to spend part of their spring listening to jazz can only be a good thing (now let's get more clubs out of the basements). And as the warmer weather approaches, that means more leaves on the trees. Novelist Betty Smith said that a tree grows in Brooklyn. In this issue we have the mini-followup: A ...

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Commander Cody of the Lost Planet Airmen Publishes Book of Art and Anedotes

Source: CHC Network
March 26, 2010

INTERVIEWS ON NPR'S “WEEKEND EDITION" AND SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO George Frayne is known to most people as Commander Cody, the zany frontman for the Lost Planet Airmen. But Fraynes more than an influential rock 'n' roll star who had a Top Ten hit in the '70s hes also a world-renowned fine artist in painting, sculpture, and multimedia whose work has been exhibited in museums from Austin to Tokyo, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as in a ...

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John Watson's "The Power of Jazz" Photography Book Now Available

Source: Michael Ricci
March 23, 2010

Jazz legends and rising stars are featured in a new book The Power Of Jazz, by UK-based professional photographer and writer John Watson.

The book has more than 140 color and black and white photographs of artists including Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Esbjorn Svensson, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Dame Cleo Laine, Jane Monheit, Roberta Gambarini, Sheila Jordan, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman and Jan Garbarek.

The entire book can be viewed online here.

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W. Royal Stokes Donates Collection to the Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2010

The Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives at the University of the District of Columbia has acquired a significant collection of recordings, books, and periodicals from jazz author, historian, radio personality, and critic W. Royal Stokes, a D.C. native and former writer for The Washington Post. “The University of the District of Columbia is a natural and most appropriate repository for my donation. After all, I am a D.C. native, graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, and, after living here and ...

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Texts Without Context

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

In his deliberately provocative and deeply nihilistic new book, Reality Hunger, the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction has never seemed less central to the culture's sense of itself.

He says he's bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots and invented characters and much more interested in confession and reality-based art. His own book can be taken as Exhibit A in what he calls recombinant or appropriation art. Mr. Shields's book consists of 618 ...

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Elis Regina's Biography "Furacão Elis" Set for English-Language Internet Debut

Source: Michael Ricci
March 17, 2010

Connectbrazil.com is pleased to announce the launch of its new internet home for the life story of legendary Brazilian singer Elis Regina, the English language translation of the full-length book Furacão Elis. The free, web-based text will be launched from its new permanent home as part of the Connectbrazil.com network on Thursday, March 17th in honor of her birthday. The book itself is an interesting story. Carefully researched and authored by Regina Echeverria, Furacão Elis was first published by Editorial ...

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Hurtin Words Tammy Wynette

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2010

Sometimes its hard to be a biographer. Tammy Wynette is known as the queen of country music, a legend and a drag queen staple.

The first country artist to go platinum, with more than 20 No. 1 hits, she is beloved and rightfully respected, the Elvis of the Opry, a tiny wisp of a woman who went from beauty school to record sales of more than $30 million, a Horatio Alger hero in sequins.

Her appeal springs primarily from two ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York March 2010 Issue Now Available!

Source: Michael Ricci
February 27, 2010

As much as jazz, as a musical and artistic form, has influenced the world since its development in the United States, it has taken as good as it gives. A constant influx of international players keeps the music vital and relevant to audiences everywhere; so while New York is still the jazz capital of the world, it is of a world where practitioners and listeners can approach the music from their own unique cultural perspectives.

One need only peruse our ...

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