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Woodstock '69 Revisited: Stories Wanted
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All About Jazz
Literary Cottage and Adams Media are seeking fifty stories written by people who attended Woodstock in 1969 for an anthology to be published in time for the festival's 40th anniversary next summer. WOODSTOCK REVISITED will be the first book that chronicles the audience's experience in an up close and personal way. It will document the event itself, but provide a portrait of America as that tumultuous decade came to a close. Stories will be historical within the context of 1969, ...
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Legendary Composer, Conductor, and Performer Lalo Schifrin Celebrates His Life with Autobiography
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All About Jazz
Mission Impossible: My Life in Music Reflects on Life's Work in Classical, Jazz, and Film LOS ANGELES, Aug 19, 2008 -- Scarecrow Press will release the autobiography of six-time Academy Award nominated composer Lalo Schifrin this summer. Mission Impossible: My Life in Music, edited by Richard Palmer, is a journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and jazz atmospheres in Paris in the 1950s; from his jazz career with Dizzy Gillespie to his development as a film ...
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Why Tom Piazza Matters
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All About Jazz
It was one of those Jazzfest moments of perfect grace. The Carolina Chocolate Drops launched into the Blind Willie Johnson song “City of Refuge," and there, on an aisle seat, clapping along and rocking out, was music writer Tom Piazza. It was as if the Chocolate Drops were singing just for him, right to him, not knowing his book of the same title was coming four months in the future. It was a moment of blessing, the kind New Orleans ...
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Dick Twardzik Bio Lives!
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
Richard Twardzik, the rather haunted-looking pianist who was a mainstay of the Boston jazz scene in the early 1950s, recorded only once as a leader before dying at the age of 24 during a European tour with Chet Baker. His quirky, fluid style, influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum and sprinkled with touches of dissonance and classical music, has led some to compare him to fellow 1950s iconoclasts Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols. Now Bouncin' With Bartok, a long-awaited ...
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Blues in the Press Room / Meet Me in Obits
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Michael Ricci
And they call this fiction? Black & White and Dead All Over By John Darnton An editor is murdered. And the suspect? That would be all the reporters.
ANY GREAT newsroom worth its salt is an ink-stained asylum, a toxic landfill, a college of cranks and a museum of misfits who never learn, despite years of broken promises to weary spouses, that they will not be home for dinner. I've had the luck of seven newspaper jobs in ...
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AllAboutJazz-New York August 2008 Issue Now Available
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All About Jazz
Last month found New York hosting the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The House that Ruth Built was given the honor in its final season; next season the Yankees will play in a new home. The old stadium was opened in 1923 and has been witness to some amazing baseball history. And let's not forget that this is also the final year for Shea Stadium, the Mets' home since 1964. All this nostalgia makes you realize ...
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