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A Photo Album to Crystallize 30 Years of Passion - The Festival Under the Stars

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
November 18, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 — For 30 years, the Festival International de Jazz de Montral has created an incredible array of magical moments, as captured in The Festival Under the Stars, a magnificent album specially created to celebrate three decades of passion. Through the 144 pages and hundreds of photos of this brand-new book, fans can relive and be transported anew by thousands of moments of musical pleasure the Festival has generated since its very first edition in 1980. Introduced ...

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Quincy Jones Looks Back in Hardcover

Source: Michael Ricci
November 16, 2008

You know the real reason you do a book like this? It's so you can actually remember all the things that have happened to you in 75 years of life. Quincy Jones- let out a loud laugh at that one.

The man who has 27 Grammys on his shelves has been playing a duet with music history for five decades, and most of the high notes are recounted in The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions. ...

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Thomas Jefferson His Slave Mistress and the Antebellum South

Source: Michael Ricci
November 14, 2008

The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed A look at the third president, his slave mistress and the antebellum South.

Thomas Jefferson is an American icon. Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France, our first secretary of State, vice president and ultimately the third president. But it has become de rigueur to point to a necessary asterisk: that Jefferson, like all Southern aristocrats, was a slaveholder.

Irony abounds in history. ...

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Trading Fours: A Novel About Music

Source: All About Jazz
November 13, 2008

TRADING FOURS captures a single day in the life of four musicians, whose lives intersect in profound ways, much like the very intersection of a musical trading fours that builds to a great dramatic cadence. Los Angeles native Angela Carole Brown is a musician, novelist, and award-winning poet (Heritage Magazine Award), who has brought us her debut novel, TRADING FOURS, which released on Infinity Publishing in 2005, and about which she was interviewed on KPFK's Arts in Review with Julio ...

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The Way We Were as Seen Through LIFE

Source: All About Jazz
November 12, 2008

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Toronto-Based Saxophonist Bob Brough Releases New CD "Time Away"

Source: All About Jazz
November 11, 2008

Time Away is a collection of original tunes recorded by an instrumental, classic, jazz quartet. All musicians are among Canada's cream of jazz--Bob Brough on tenor saxophone, Adrean Farrugia on piano, Artie Roth on bass, and the world renowned Terry Clarke on drums. Time Away was recorded at one of the finest recording studios in the world, CBC Studio 211, which boasts of a fine grand piano once played by the celebrated pianist Glenn Gould. Time Away has been referred ...

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Paul Simon's 'Lyrics' Captures Career

Source: All About Jazz
November 10, 2008

For an iconic songwriter whose words, melodies and rhythms are inextricably linked, a page of lyrics might seem like a chassis in search of an engine.

In Paul Simon's case, it's almost impossible to read, and not mentally sing, his familiar lines: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo

Paul Simon's Lyrics 1964-2008 (Simon & Schuster, $35), out Tuesday, spans his entire career, from Simon & ...

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Delta Blues

Source: Michael Ricci
November 9, 2008

Hearts Full of Sorrow

DELTA BLUES

The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

by Ted Gioia

It has been 70 years since Robert Johnsons death and 25 since Muddy Waterss. It has been 16 years since the founding of the House of Blues nightclub chain and eight years since the burning of Juniors Place, in Chulahoma, Miss., one of the last of the great Delta juke joints. We are in the post-history of the blues, ...

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