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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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Music Historian Piero Scaruffi Publishes "History of Jazz"

Source: All About Jazz
December 13, 2007

Music historian Piero Scaruffi has self-published a History of Jazz Music that mostly covers contemporary musicians, the result of three decades of research. The author's background in rock music, classical music and avant-garde music gives it a unique flavor, crossing borders and questioning stereotypes. It is also unique in that it emphasizes composition and arrangement. Following his notorious A History of Rock Music and the shorter History of Popular Music, this is the third book in a bold project to ...

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Cover Story for December LA Jazz Scene Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz LA

Source: All About Jazz
December 7, 2007

The December issue of LA Jazz Scene has an in depth three and a half page cover story about Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz LA Trio, with anecdotes about some of Suezenne's great Jazz player friends from the Bop Era in New York. She was a famous pianist-vibes player who toured extensively with her own Trio for Joe Glaser's NY office.

Upon moving to Los Angeles, she formed the Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz LA Trio with Drummer Darren Ross and Bassist ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York December 2007 Issue Now Available

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2007

Even though it seems like you were still wearing shorts yesterday and despite the fact Christmas music has been piped into stores since before Halloween, we at AllAboutJazz-New York would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your loved ones a happy, healthy and, dare we hope, jazzy holiday season.

For those expecting to find our annual round-up of Best Of's, don't despair. It had come to our attention that many concerts and album releases were being unfairly ...

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Outside the Boxes: A History of Modern Music That Does Not Respect Convention

Source: All About Jazz
November 25, 2007

THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross Farrar Straus Giroux. 624 Pp. $30. The shelves of music libraries groan under the accumulation of histories of 20th-century music. But they are a dispiriting collection, partly because their implicit claim -- even if they dodge the actual term -- to be “history" is obvious nonsense. How can you write a history of something that is still going on? The answer has usually been ...

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The Book of Nations Pays Tribute to Jazz Singers and Musicians, and World's Prominent Achievers.

Source: All About Jazz
November 17, 2007

THE BOOK OF NATIONS PAYS TRIBUTE TO JAZZ SINGERS AND MUSICIANS, AND WORLD'S PROMINENT ACHIEVERS. New York-NY. Amazon.com Company has just published - The Book Of Nations: Leaders, Stars, Celebrities, Lifestyles and Entertainment - written by Maximillien de Lafayette. The book is a joint publication of Amazon, Times Square Press, and the Federation of American Musicians, Singers and Performing Artists (FAMSPA). It is a huge tome of 738 pages analyzing major issues and listing the top 100 people and ideas ...

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German Publisher Advance Music Releases Exploration in Rhythm by Ed Saindon

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2007

German music publisher Advance Music has just released Exploration in Rhythm, Volume 1, Rhythmic Phrasing in Improvisation by Ed Saindon. This is the first book of a series (for all instruments) dealing with advanced rhythmic concepts for the improvisor and composer. Saindon is a Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he has been teaching since 1976 and has developed the concepts addressed in the book through his jazz improvisation course at the college. Exploration in Rhythm, Rhythmic ...

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An International Platform for Jazz and Cabaret Singers and Musicians

Source: All About Jazz
October 18, 2007

The new and second edition of ENTERTAINMENT GREATS FROM THE 1800'S TO THE PRESENT: CINEMA, STAGE, MUSIC, DIVAS, LEGENDS was just published. A massive volume containing 1,500 photos of stars, icons, celebrities from the 17th century to the present, and the 2,000 most prominent singers and musicians of jazz, cabaret, pop, oldies, and American standards. This is the pre-final volume of the series World Who's Who in Jazz, Cabaret, Music and Entertainment, written by Maximillien de Lafayette who authored 115 ...

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