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Jazz Scores And Analysis By Richard Lawn Now Available!
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Richard Lawn
Jazz Scores and Analysis, Vol. 1 by Rick Lawn Full scores and in-depth analysis of contemporary, large ensemble works by six Grammy-nominated composers: Vince Mendoza, Bob Mintzer, Jim McNeely, John Fedchock, John Hollenbeck, and Darcy James Argue. Following in the footsteps of Rayburn Wright's seminal work, Inside the Score, this book gives a guided tour into the techniques and musical concepts in these six scores by masters of large ensemble jazz writing. This immense labor of love includes: ...
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When Economic Theory Fails: A Critical Look At Waldfogel’s Digital Renaissance
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HypeBot
In this piece, Neil Turkewitz digs deep into the recently released book by Joel Waldfogel entitled Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us About the Future of Popular Culture, a work which explores how the entertainment industry is fairing in the current explosive digital age with regard to the quality of content being produced. Guest post by Neil Turkewitz from Medium Joel Waldfogel has released a book entitled: Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future ...
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Rave Reviews For New Book On The Life And Work Of Jazz Fusion Legend Billy Cobham
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Brian Gruber
Few musicians have transformed a genre like Panama-born, New York-raised Billy Cobham. Six Days at Ronnie Scott’s: Billy Cobham on Jazz Fusion and the Act of Creation is a one-of-a-kind oral history of a legend’s life work. From his early days with Horace Silver and Dreams to the epochal Bitches Brew sessions with Miles Davis to the breakthrough Mahavishnu Orchestra and beyond, here is a first-ever deep dive into six decades of musical innovation. The book’s setting is six days ...
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Holiday Gift Idea: New Book Features Kronos Quartet, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakatmoto, Arvo Pärt, Jon Hassell, Michael Price And The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
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All About Jazz
The Moderns vol.2 explores the world’s great avant-garde artists. BADD PRESS announces the launch of The Moderns vol. 2, the second installment of a series dedicated to the world’s great avant-garde artists. Featuring more than 200 reviews and interviews, the book introduces readers to established and emerging music leaders from around the world. “The first volume was so warmly received,” says author Kevin Press. “Since its publication at the beginning of this year, I’ve been sent music from all over ...
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DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC on Georgetown University Press, Now Available!
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Jacqueline Beilhart
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, and then by rail into New York, before exploding across the globe. However, the rich history of jazz in the nation’s capital is often overlooked. Some of the most important clubs in the jazz world have opened and closed their doors in Washington, DC, while some of its greatest players and promoters were born there ...
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Drummer Warren Benbow's New Book, "A Drummers Story" Now Available
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Warren Benbow
Like many drummers I started out early, and by the time I was sixteen and a half I began playing my first professional gigs. It seemed to me that I was born a drummer. Here is a little about me: I've been fortunate to have performed and or recorded with artists like: Whitney Houston, Nina Simone, LL Cool J, Betty Carter, Michal Urbaniak with Ursula Dudziak, Teruo Nakamura and Super Friends, Mary J. Blige, Nancy Wilson, Brian McKnight, James “Blood” ...
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Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining from Equinox Publishing
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All About Jazz
Mosaics is the first biography of bassist, band-leader, composer, educator and author Graham Collier. Duncan Heining draws extensively on Collier’s personal archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life and, particularly, in relation to developments in British and European jazz of the 1960s and '70s. Collier’s work as a composer-bandleader represented an attempt ...
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Monday Book Recommendation: Lilian Terry’s Jazz Friends
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Lilian Terry, Dizzy Duke Brother Ray And Friends (Illinois) Lilian Terry’s book is full of anecdotes about her friendships with the musicians mentioned in the title—and dozens of others. Enjoying modest renown in Europe for her singing, Ms. Terry has also been involved in radio and television broadcasting and is a cofounder of the European Jazz Federation. Her activities brought her in close contact with Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. She conducted extensive interviews with Ray Charles, who ...
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