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William Parker Featured in the October Issue of Downbeat
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Improvised Communications
Linear Jazz Improvisation: New Web Site and Book Releases
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All About Jazz
New ByrneJazz.com Web Site and Books Announcing the new ByrneJazz.com web site! Trombonist and composer Ed Byrne, will release a new edition of all 42 Linear Jazz Improvisation books: 12 Books for All Instruments and Voices: Concert, Bass Clef, Bb, and Eb. They will soon be available in spiral-bound hard copy through LuLu.com for easy reading on the piano or music stand with new color covers. They will also be available at Amazon in hard copy. All LJI books come ...
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Book: Benny Green
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Benny Green, The Reluctant Art (Da Capo). Dave Frishberg's recent message to Rifftides in which he recommended this book sent me scrambling in haste and embarrassment to obtain a copy. I had never read Green's book, subtitled “Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz" and should have. There are actually six studies. I am being rewarded by Green's insights into Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. One provocative thought from Green: “Improvisation is ...
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AllAboutJazz-New York October 2008 Issue Now Available
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All About Jazz
Jazz is a music almost obsessed with its own history. Sure, rock ‘n’ rollers are sometimes compared to earlier practitioners and classical musicians are required to know voluminous amounts of traditional repertoire, but jazz players usually have to deal with both issues. It is surely intimidating to a young player both to carry on a century-old tradition while competing with the music of their elders.
But jazz has always been filled with outsized personalities, arguably none more so than trumpeter ...
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Danny Goldberg It's Only Rock'n' Roll
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Michael Ricci
The title of Danny Goldberg’s memoir, Bumping Into Geniuses, comes from an aphorism of Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records. Ertegun’s formula for success in the music business was “walking around until you bumped into a gen ius.”
A method that works well enough if, like Ertegun, you manage to bump into Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Goldberg — an industry lifer who did time as a rock critic, P.R. flack and personal manager before his stints as president of ...
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Dom Minasi's New Book: "A Guitarists' Ultimate Guide To Chord Construction and Substitution"
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM Wins the Prestigious 2008 ARSC Book Award
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All About Jazz
Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM has won the 2008 ARSC Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
2008 ARSC Awards for Excellence
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers of books, articles, liner notes, and monographs, to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded ...
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The Connection: The Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
