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Recommended Reading: Week 53
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RVAjazz
Here's a taste of what's going on out there, straight from the Google Reader:--Taylor Barnett wrote a great essay about free improvisation at RVANews. He cites his experience in Devil's Workshop Big Band, and a great clip accompanies the essay. Referring to the opening of every set at Bogart's Back Room, he says, “The 'Free Tune' was like a trust exercise, but instead of falling backwards into each other's arms, we jumped into the musical abyss, having faith ...
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Bob Dylan's "Lost" Poems with Barry Feinstein's Photos
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Michael Ricci
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript by Bob Dylan with photos by Barry Feinstein
In 1964, Bob Dylan looked at a stack of Barry Feinstein's photos and wrote a pile of poems to go with them. And then, well, Dylan forgot about the whole thing. When asked, in the foreword, “Do you remember writing the text?" he responds, “Actually, no." Unlike a lyric repeated so many times it's hard to genuinely hear it, the poems in Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript ...
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Wishful Drinking
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Michael Ricci
'Wishful Drinking' by Carrie Fisher The actress maintains a sense of humor about her often tumultuous life.
[M]y entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. Carrie Fisher
As Carrie Fisher explains it early in this brisk, entertaining adaptation of her 2006 one-woman stage show, she had famous parents. Debbie Reynolds was the beloved star of Singin' in ...
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The Thorazine Mirrorball: Jazz Mystery Getting Raves
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All About Jazz
LA Jazz musician Jack Maeby's thriller, The Thorazine Mirrorball is garnering critical acclaim from the literary and jazz communities alike. Dick Wood, host of “Jazz Tracks” on WABY Radio, raves “What an exciting read! You can almost hear the music. I couldn’t put the darn thing down." Aaron Lazar, writing for Futures Mystery Magazine says, “a superb thriller...a taut and colorful novel...characters jump from the page.” The Thorazine Mirrorball takes place in the jazz and R&B milieu of the 1970s ...
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Steve McQueen Was a Pilot Not Celebrity at Santa Paula Airport
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Michael Ricci
The Great Escape superstar, who played chess to jazz while seducing Faye Dunaway, in real life spent his last year where he was treated as an average Joe. Friends recall his kindness and love of cheap beer. One day in 1979, the King of Cool decided to fly.
Before anyone knew it, Steve McQueen was living with his girlfriend in a hangar at the Santa Paula Airport. During the day, he learned to pilot a World War II-era biplane. In ...
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AllAboutJazz-New York December 2008 Issue Now Available
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All About Jazz
We would be remiss not to mention the significant election results that usher in this holiday season. With the highest voter turnout since the ‘60s being estimated and an African-American President for the first time in US history, we are witnessing momentous events. Though it will be some time before we see if the promise is fulfilled, anyone reading this gazette should take some solace in the fact that Barack Obama has both an appreciation of the arts and an ...
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Strollin: A Jazz Life Through John Levys Personal Lens
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Davis & Associates Public Relations
Holidays are the perfect times to reminisce, and at the age of 96, with contemplation in mind, the oldest living NEA Jazz Master takes a Stroll back in time to share thoughts and images from his personal jazz journey in a new book, Strollin: A Jazz Life Through John Levy's Personal Lens by Devra Hall Levy (ISBN: 9780982071403). Images spanning more than 50 years include Levy's first trip to Japan with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1963, and an amazing ...
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Ornette Coleman Said It
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
"I was out at [anthropologist] Margaret Mead's school and was teaching some little kids how to play instantly. I asked the question, 'How many kids would like to play music and have fun?' And all the little kids raised up their hands. And I asked, 'Well, how do you do that?' And one little girl said, 'You just apply your feelings to sound.' And I said, 'Come and show me.' When she went to the piano to do it, she ...
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