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Bob Dylan's 1966 Tour in Photographs

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2008

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

Source: All About Jazz
July 16, 2008

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Recommended Reading: Pollard and Parker Featured in Style Weekly

Source: RVAjazz
July 16, 2008

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Book: Roger Scruton

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
July 11, 2008

 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

Source: Michael Ricci
July 10, 2008

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

Source: Michael Ricci
July 5, 2008

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

Source: Michael Ricci
July 5, 2008

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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AllAboutJazz-New York July 2007 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
June 30, 2008

After an uncommon flirtation with spring this year, summer seemed to make up for lost time by brutalizing the city with a week of despotic weather. We all feared that August had come two months early but things seemed to have settled comfortably into an enjoyable climate for the foreseeable future.

One musician who has settled comfortably into legend status is our Cover Story subject, Bucky Pizzarelli, whose credits are as vast and wide-ranging as his facility on his seven-string ...

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