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The Abyss of Jazz by Richard V. Duffy

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2006

THE ABYSS OF JAZZ A Worldly Phenomenon

The Abyss Of Jazz is the most unorthodox and powerful dissertation on jazz existent. Every chapter is designated to one jazz artist, including three of the most renowned divas of jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, and the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. At the end of every chapter, the author adds his comments of praise to the artist. There are photos in every chapter--color and black and white.

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AllAboutJazz-New York March 2006

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2006

In our brief but illustrious history, we have had only three issues where our trio of major articles featured the same instrument. April 2004 and January 2005 were saxophones and September 2005 was the drums.

For our March edition, though we don't plan these things this way, we present the piano. On The Cover we have that most eminent of composers Andrew Hill, appearing this month at Birdland in support of his new album and return to Blue Note Records. ...

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A Cappella Urban Sound Revisited

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2006

For the first time in over forty years, the street corner a cappella sound is back. Born on the banks of the Hudson River and cultivated along the corridor that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia, the vocal group sound is again off and running at high speed.

The team of Santiago & Dunham, a fifty-nine year old former singer and a thirty-eight-year-old record collector, has managed to spark international interest among record collectors, vocal group enthusiasts and lovers of the ...

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Sher Music Co. releases "The European Real Book"

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2006

Would you like to find a treasure chest of new, genius-level jazz music? Here's how.

Sher Music Co. has a new big jazz fake book out, The European Real Book, featuring tunes by all of Europe's greatest jazz composers, including Michel Petrucciani, Florian Ross, Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, Nguyen Le, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Kenny Wheeler, Bill Bruford, Tommy Smith, Enrico Rava, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Barbara Dennerlein, Claus Ogerman, Django Reinhardt, Enrico Pieranunzi, Tim Garland and almost 100 others.

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AllAboutJazz-New York February 2006

Source: All About Jazz
January 31, 2006

Going over our records for the past several months has revealed a fascinating fact: our last three cover story subjects were either born, grew up or made their name in Detroit, Michigan. This month, Barry Harris (pg. 9) makes four in a row! Perhaps we should change our name to AllAboutJazz-Detroit or at least set up a satellite publication there to honor one of America's great jazz cities.

But another thing we can take from this trend is that New ...

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"Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life" by Alec Wilder

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2006

Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer.

Alec Wilder is a rare example of a composer who established a reputation both as a prolific composer of concertos, sonatas, and operas, and as a popular songwriter (including the hit “I'll Be Around"). He was fearsomely articulate and had a wide and varied circle ...

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Jazz vocalist, Cynthia Basinet featured in "1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe" book

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2006

Actress and recording artist, Cynthia Basinet (aka c. basinet) known for hits like “Santa Baby" and “Tea for Two" featured amongst the collection of women in “1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe" book, now available thru Amazon. Book excerpt: Actress, model, and singer Cynthia Basinet understood the power of the internet to connect people when the medium rocketed her song “Santa Baby" around the world. The empowerment and self-determination she experienced prompted her to seek new connections in new ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York - January 2006

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2006

So after turkey overload during Thanksgiving and the exhausting festivity of the holiday season (made extra special by our transit strike), most of us can hope to take it easy during January. Don't count on it. Better make some time in your schedule for the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) 2006 Conference, four days of all things jazz from performances to panels to clinics to the awarding of the 2006 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships to general schmoozing (Jan. 11th-14th, ...

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