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Recommended Reading: No BS! And Jason Arce in Urban Views Weekly
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RVAjazz
My article on the upcoming NO BS! Brass and Jason Arce Quintet gig at The Camel on August 1st was published today in Richmond's new Urban Views Weekly newspaper.[...]"We made a band with the intention of not having any saxophones in it," Pace says. When Arce first asked Pace if he could join the band, he was denied, although later an offer was extended to him. “I told Jason to play cowbell for a year, and he did ...
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Bob Dylan's 1966 Tour in Photographs
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All About Jazz
Dylan's Real Moments A new book of photographs by his friend Barry Feinstein takes us behind the scenes during Dylan's first electric tour of Europe.
Scotland, 1966 In the book, photographer Weinstein writes of his relationship with Dylan: “Bob and I were friends long before we worked together. We hung out and understood each other. When there was something to say we would talk, when there wasn't we were silent. We were similar in that way, ...
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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Traned' with Sonny Fortune
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All About Jazz
Book: Roger Scruton
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Roger Scruton, Culture Counts (Brief Encounters). If you're concerned that the bad in culture is driving out the good, this little book by the British philosopher and polymath may make you feel better. Scruton writes not only about music, but about architecture, painting, literature and the high-water marks of Western culture. He offers hope that lowlife pop culture will not overwhelm a society seemingly bent on dumbing itself down. He proposes that music can play a positive role in moral ...
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In Search of the Black Fantastic
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Michael Ricci
In Search of the Black Fantastic by Richard Iton. For black entertainers, the pop cultural has always been political, the author argues.
When Paul Robeson declared, at the height of Cold War tensions, that black Americans would never fight for a nation that had “oppressed us for generations" in a war against the Soviet Union, the actor and civil rights advocate ignited a firestorm that damaged his career and opened a debate about the role black entertainers should play in ...
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Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door
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Michael Ricci
HER LIFE on screen played like an American fairy tale.
A new biography looks into the shadows and 'Untold Story' of Doris Day On screen, she was America's smiling, singing darling. But off screen, her husbands weren't Rock Hudson and her life was no light romp.
A former singer with Les Brown's band in the 1940s, Day also was a bestselling recording artist whose trademark songs -- “Sentimental Journey" and the Oscar-winning “Que Sera, Sera" -- seemed to epitomize her ...
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Jefferson's Wee Little Book
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Michael Ricci
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Jefferson Bible reveals Founding Father's view of God, Faith
SCHOLAR: Robert C. Ritchie says many people would consider it desecration to take a scissors to the Bible. “Yet, it gives a reading into Jefferson's take on the Bible, which was not as divine word put into print, but as a book that can be cut up," he says. Nation's third president compiled the four Gospels into a single text without ...
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