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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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Tresser Printing Office offers 64page folio on the original music of Stuart H. Tresser

Source: All About Jazz

Tresser Printing Office and Jazzbone Records offers for sale at website http://www.jazzbonerecords.com the original music of Stuart H. Tresser in a neatly printed folio. Of course, if you are looking to get the tunes FREE, they can be also printed out a page at the time. New artists and agents are invited to check out this material to consider for recording,producing. Note: T.P.O. (Tresser Printing Office) prints,publishes, sheet music. If you are looking to have some sheet music printed,engraved,arranged contact ...

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Signal to Noise #25 now available!

Source: All About Jazz

SIGNAL to NOISE #25 is now available!

What happens when musical words collide? Ecstatic jazz pianist MATTHEW SHIPP encounters DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID in a freewheeling and wide-ranging conversation. Photos by Michael Galinsky

With field recordings, freeform jazz and oddball humor, REVEREND DWIGHT FRIZZELL bridges the disparate worlds of Sun Ra, Harry Smith and Harry S. Truman. Dan Warburton tells the definitive story of Missouri's foremost avant-gardist.

Drummerless minimalists TOWN & COUNTRY, PILLOW and TERMINAL 4 constitute the quieter, ...

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The New Book “Bebop Improv Concepts” Is Now Available As An Ebook

Source: All About Jazz

Author, Hans Fahling, has compiled practice techniques and teaching philosophies in this book & CD package which allows a player to progressively construct a musical foundation on his/her instrument along the lines of this self-learning method. The book methodically prescribes practice drills for musical concepts that will be successively applied in playing-type situations, which are supplemented by the provided CD full of illustrations and play-along tracks.

In this ebook version – available world-wide through www.hansfahlingworkshops.com - the music is to ...

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Scott Yanow Pens Essential Listener's Guide to the Jazz Age

Source: All About Jazz

San Francisco-Classic Jazz: The Musicians & Recordings that Shaped Jazz, 1895-1933 from Backbeat Books explores the birth and early development of a truly American art form. Written by veteran jazz journalist Scott Yanow, this is the only guide music lovers need to understand how jazz began, and to enjoy great recordings made by the innovative artists who defined the exciting, nascent era known as the Jazz Age.

Through Yanow's acclaimed expertise, Classic Jazz provides in-depth historical essays, anecdotal artist biographies, ...

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