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"Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954-65" by Ken Mathieson on Canongate Books
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All About Jazz
The second installment of Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories provides a fine overview to one of the most exciting periods in the music's development.
Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz, 1954-65 (Canongate Books; $15, paperback; May, 2002); examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the postwar era, hard bob and its offshoot soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day, and remains at the core of the modern-jazz ...
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Adelaide Hall biography "Underneath a Harlem Moon" Set For September Release
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All About Jazz
The first major biography of the legendary jazz vocalist and Broadway star Adelaide Hall titled: Underneath a Harlem Moon ... The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall is due to hit U.S. and Canadian bookstores this September.
Written by the British author Iain Cameron Williams, the book has a foreword by Dame Cleo Laine.
The writer Stephen Bourne says of the book:
“By documenting Adelaide Hall's early years in show business, Iain Cameron Williams takes the reader on a ...
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Tresser Printing Office will Announce Arrival of the Bb Version REAL BOOK of ORIGINAL TUNES and the Music of Stuart H. Tresser
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All About Jazz
The music of jazz pianist/composer Stuart H. Tresser will be published for Bb instruments, and available for horn players. All tunes plus 2 more NEW originals will be included in the new folio. “Let's Have Some Fun" and “Seize the Time" will be included in this new folio. Printing and production will take place in September, 2002 and this new folio will be available for sale. Watch website for details: http://www.jazzbonerecords.com .
It has been the goal of Stuart H. ...
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Top Shelf Publishes Sequel to Steve Lafler's BugHouse
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All About Jazz
Baja, Top Shelf Productions, 96 pages, $9.95. By Steve Lafler
Bones the bass player is the youngest member of Bughouse, a be-boppin' band of cartoon insects. In this second volume of the Bughouse saga, Bones is framed by vengeful gangster Johnny Muggles. On the lam in Mexico to cool his heels for awhile, he forms a pick up band with some local musicians who play R&B with a Latin twist. Will Bones forgo the pleasures of jazz for a new ...
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Book Launch for Louisiana Music: A Journey from R&B to Zydeco, Jazz to Country, Blues to Gospel, Cajun Music to Swamp Pop to Carnival Music and Beyond
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All About Jazz
New Orleans, LA — April 30, 2002 — What is it about Louisiana that breeds and attracts musicians? There are literally hundreds of them: Dr. John, the Meters, the Marsalis family, the Neville Brothers, Harry Connick, Jr., Irma Thomas, Lucinda Williams, Allen Toussaint, all part of a tradition going back to Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Jelly Roll Morton, Buddy Bolden, and Mahalia Jackson. Louisiana Music: A Journey from R&B to Zydeco, Jazz to Country, Blues to Gospel, Cajun ...
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Unsmooth Jazz - Authors Make Readers Think About Jazz in New Ways
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Michael Ricci
"Blue Note Records: The Biography" By Richard Cook
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All About Jazz
From the well known author of the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD comes the definitive tale of the most famous jazz label of all time: Blue Note Records.
Blue Note Records is arguably the single most recognizable record label in the history of recorded music. To millions of jazz fans around the world, Blue Note is more than a business, more than a back catalogue of extraordinary music, even more than an exciting sound and a distinctive look. It ...
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