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1,000 Records Before You Die
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JamBase
1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE A Listener's Life List
A world of music awaits discovery in Tom Moon's 1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE: A Listener's Life List (September 12, 2008; paperback/hardcover; $19.95/$32.95). Set sail with the letter A, or B or W. Land first at the familiar, and reconnect with the pleasures of a favorite piece, like J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos or The Beatles' Abbey Road. Continue on, and soon we're veering off ...
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"The Glass Trumpet" - Fiction for Jazz Lovers
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All About Jazz
The Glass Trumpet By Mark Cairns 340 pages perfect bound paperback High gloss laminated and embossed cover ISBN: 9780955861505 Publisher: Scorpio Eye Press, London, England British writer and music photographer Mark Cairns offers up his first novel this year and it's chock-full of jazz. The Glass Trumpet paints a vivid picture of post war London, from its bomb-sites to its underworld club scene in this noir-ish coming of age thriller. ...
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Wynton Marsalis Moves Jazz to 'Higher Ground'
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All About Jazz
Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis says that music is the “art of the invisible" -- it is memory, intention and imagination. Marsalis explains his relationship to jazz in his new book, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life. Jazz music is America's past and its potential summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better ...
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Quincy Jones Inks Two-Book Deal with Insight Edition
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All About Jazz
Insight Editions is pleased to announce a two-book publishing agreement with the legendary Quincy Jones. The first book, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions: Photos, Letters, Memories & More from Q's Personal Collection will be published October 28, 2008. Quincy Jones: 60 Years of American Music is scheduled for a September 2009 release. Random House distributes Insight Editions, an imprint of Palace Publishing Group, to the trade. In honor of Quincy Jones' seventy-fifth birthday, he is opening his ...
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Xeric Winner "Jazz: Cool Birth" Based on '50s Album Cover Design
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All About Jazz
Through study of album covers, television program title artwork, and common illustrations used in everything from health booklets to instruction manuals from the 1950s, author/designer Gary Scott Beatty created recent Xeric Foundation grant winner Jazz: Cool Birth, a jazz club murder mystery. The comic will appear in September's Previews preorder magazine under Aazurn Publishing. “I hope to pull readers into the late night clubs of 1957, feeling the music through the visuals," Beatty explained. Ignoring paint and ink magazine illustration, ...
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AllAboutJazz-New York September 2008 Issue Now Available
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All About Jazz
September is traditionally back-to-school month so it is appropriate that we feature on our cover this issue Kenny Burrell, not only a legendary and influential guitarist but also Director of Jazz Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. And continuing the theme of education is our Interviewee, tuba player Bob Stewart, who is an instructor at both the Juilliard School and Lehman College.
Filling out our coverage, as summer gives way to fall and t-shirts to light sweaters, are stories ...
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Bix Beiderbecke: Overrated?
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The recent Rifftides item about the continuing medical needs of Bix Beiderbecke biographer Richard M. Sudhalter brought interesting comments about both men. You can read it and the comments here. The piece stimulated a correspondence with Paul Paolicelli, blog reader, fellow survivor of the news business and former lead trumpet player. Leaving out parts concerning unproved and unprovable allegations about Beiderbecke's personal life, here are key parts of the exchange, which expanded with a contribution from trumpeter Randy Sandke revised ...
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