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The Good Life
by Bob Jacobson
by Tony Bennett w/ Will Friedwald Pocket Books, 1998, 312 pp. This is a very interesting autobiography. Bennett tells us right away that he's not one to dwell on the past but at age 72 it's time for an overview. With wonderful detail Mr. Bennedetto (Bob Hope shortened it) takes us back to his ...
Interviews and Master Classes with Jazz's Leading Brass Players
by Bob Jacobson
Interviews and Master Classes Bob Bernotas Boptism Music Publishing ISBN 0971798303 In this compilation of thirty-eight articles previously published in Windplayer, Jazz Player and other sources, thirty of brass's top practitioners are profiled, interviewed or provide “Master Classes". Bernotas' subjects are fascinating people with a lot to say ...
Jazz Baby
by Bob Jacobson
Jazz Baby Carole Boston Weatherford & Laura Freeman Lee & Low Books ISBN: 1584300396 April has been designated Jazz Appreciation Month. John Edward Hasse, the Smithsonian's curator of American music, has said that “Every April I'd love to see the country riff, swing, boogie and bop ...
Looking for Chet Baker
by Bob Jacobson
Looking for Chet Baker Bill Moody Walker & Co ISBN: 0802733689 Jazz pianist Evan Horne is at it again. An ex-girlfriend says it best: “You and dead jazz musicians. Just can't resist, huh?" From the title it's obvious whose death Horne is investigating this time. In the past ...
The Bear Comes Home
by Bob Jacobson
by Rafi Zabor W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393040372 Okay, the concept of a talking bear is nothing new. In fact we've had plenty of them - Pooh, Baloo, Smokey, Fozzie, Yogi. But while Yogi may have been “smarter than the average bear", the hero of Rafi Zabor's novel is actually smarter ...
Jazz Profiles: The Spirit of the Nineties
by Bob Jacobson
The Spirit of the Nineties Reginald Carver and Lenny Bernstein Watson-Guptill ISBN: 0823083381 Yes, this type of book's been done before, by Ben Sidran, Arthur Taylor and others. But Reginald Carver and Lenny Bernstein's work has some differences: as the subtitle indicates, the focus here is ...
Blue Bossa
by Bob Jacobson
Blue BossaBart Schneider, 1998 Viking, 244 pages ISBN 0-670-87695-X Bart Schneider brings us the story of the Chet Baker-ish Ronnie Reboulet, five years after he's walked away from his trumpet, singing and hard dope. It's the mid-1970's, with the Patty Hearst kidnapping as context. Ronnie, now in his late 40's, ...
The Jazz Fly
by Bob Jacobson
The Jazz Fly Matthew Gollub Karen Hanke Tortuga Press ISBN 1889910171 The Jazz Fly is one cute character, with big bug eyes (literally), decked out in black tie and tux. You see, he's a drummer late for his gig in the city. Trouble is, he doesn't know how ...
Ella Fitzgerald, The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
by Bob Jacobson
Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa Andrea Davis Pinkney Brian Pinkney (Ill) Hyperion Press ISBN 0786805684 Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, who previously collaborated on the children's picture book “Duke Ellington", have now brought us Ella's story, from teenage street-corner dancing to international fame. It's all ...
Sonny Rollins in D.C.
by Bob Jacobson
Sonny Rollins at the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. August 28, 1999. The band: Stephen Scott on piano; Bob Cranshaw on electric bass; Perry Wilson on drums; Victor See Yuen on percussion; Clifton Anderson on trombone.Well, they came out swingin'. Despite the four thousand seat venue, the band played like it ...
