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Out of Nowhere - The Musical Life of Warne Marsh by Marcus Cornelius

Source: All About Jazz
March 30, 2008

The second printing of this extremely well received fictional “autobiography" of Warne Marsh will be available shortly (scheduled release date is late April 2008). The book has been described as perhaps the best book ever written on the creative life of a musician, and essential reading for anyone interested in music, especially jazz perhaps. Of course it is valuable for those who wish to learn more about how Warne Marsh developed as a musician, teacher and friend. The way the ...

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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes 12 New Books

Source: All About Jazz
March 17, 2008

T.E. Priemon's Photonality Jazz Series releases 12 new visual music compositions in book format. Photonality uses the medium of jazz music integrated with the properties of photography to create visual music compositions. The Photonality Jazz Series is published by the artist wife Renee Priemon in the LULU book publishing site. The compositions are from the leading and innovative artist in the jazz genre. Artist such as Joe Lovano, Greg Osby, Oliver Lake, Ivo Perelman, Satoko Fujii, Buffalo Collision with Bad ...

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Drum! Interactive Struts New Orleans with Stanton Moore

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2008

San Jose, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of diverse, hip drum/percussion magazine worldwide, has made available its January 2008 Issue of DRUM! In its interactive edition at drumdigital.com. The January Issue features the second-line strut of New Orleans drummer, Stanton Moore, hot licks of Mitch Mitchell and four emerging Cowboy drummers, Myron Howell of Jake Owen's band; Tommy Bales of Flynnville Train, Steve Sinatra of Halfway to Hazard, and Jared Pope of Whiskey Falls. Stanton Moore could be, as ...

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Presenting Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology

Source: Obie Joe Media
March 3, 2008

How Will Two of American's Quintessential Icons Foretell the Future? Presenting Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology by Kabir Sehgal (Better World Books) If one wonders how two of the most quintessential American icons relate to each another, consider this thought by one of New Orleans' favorite sons: “Jazz is democracy in action," said Wynton Marsalis. Ever more so in New Orleans, where the birth of jazz reflected the ease of a mix of many ...

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"Luck's in My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page" (Book) Available Today

Source: All About Jazz
February 29, 2008

Luck's In my Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page By Todd Bryant Weeks Routledge Press February 2008 ISBN: 0-415-96218-8 Includes dozens of unpublished photos, musical transcriptions and analysis, unpublished genealogical data, unpublished interviews, complete new discography Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era. Oran “Hot Lips" Page was ...

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Playing the Changes: New Book and CD Chronicle the Artistic and Personal Journey of Milt Hinton

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
January 29, 2008

The Words, Images, and Music of One of the Greats In American Jazz New book and cd chronicle the artistic and personal journey of extraordinary bassist Milt Hinton The life story of Milt Hinton is rooted in hard times, rising from segregated backwater clubs to elegant concert halls, offering a perspective on the African American experience that is unique in its mix of humor and wisdom. The publication of PLAYING THE CHANGES: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs (Vanderbilt ...

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Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2007

A first-rate addition to understanding Monk, his music, and the broader issues of legacies in jazz is fresh from the publisher.

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and '70s. This pathbreaking study combines cultural theory, biography, and ...

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Miles Ornette Cecil... Jazz Beyond Jazz a New Book by Howard Mandel

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
December 21, 2007

Just out from Routledge 292 pages ISBN 0 415 96714 7 Preface by Greg Tate. Photos by Lauren Deutsch, Enid Farber, Lona Foote, William Gottlieb, Marc PoKempner and Jack Vartoogian.

In this book, award-winning journalist Howard Mandel shares his personal discoveries of and probing conversations with three artists whose works continue to upset and confound but also engage and enrich audiences worldwide. His accounts of growing up during the music's breakout eras, his later professional ...

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