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Adelaide Hall biography "Underneath a Harlem Moon" Set For September Release

Source: All About Jazz
August 29, 2002

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

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2002

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

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2002

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

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2002

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

Source: Michael Ricci
February 19, 2010

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"Blue Note Records: The Biography" By Richard Cook

Source: 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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All Music Guide to Jazz: Fourth Edition Fully Updated

Source: All About Jazz

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Doctor Sets Out to Right Wrongs in Jazz Historical Record

Source: All About Jazz

Reading biographies of the jazz greats, Dr. Frederick J. Spencer often found something lacking.

“The careers of many jazz musicians may have been accurately documented," Spencer writes in the introduction to his new book Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats (University Press of Mississippi), “but accounts of their illnesses and deaths often vary and lack conviction."

In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz, Scott Joplin is reported to have “suffered a total nervous collapse in 1911 and was ...

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