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John Coltrane: Jazz Revolutionary
by Bob Jacobson
Jazz Revolutionary Rachel Stiffler Barron Morgan Reynolds ISBN 1883846579 Barron has packed an amazing amount of information into this small, 112 page book for “young adults" (middle and high schoolers), part of Morgan Reynolds' Masters of Music series. One of the author's chief virtues is that she does not talk ...
The Antioch Review: Special JAZZ Issue
by Bob Jacobson
Since 1941 Antioch University has published this quarterly literature journal. Typical issues include essays, short stories, poems, book reviews and articles about literature. Cartoons are often featured and there's an annual fiction issue.The Review has rarely included jazz as a theme, a terrific exception being Gary Giddins' Spring, 1998 essay on Coleman Hawkins. Why ...
Rent Party Jazz
by Bob Jacobson
Rent Party Jazz William Miller & Charlotte Riley-Webb Lee & Low Books ISBN: 1584300256 Until about fifteen years ago someone looking for children's books about music could find little other than barnyard animals playing instruments or Instruments of the Orchestra-type books. Since then children's literature has undergone an ...
Duke Ellington: A Spiritual Biography
by Bob Jacobson
Janna Tull Steed Crossroad Publishing, 1999 Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 0-8245-2351-2 Why another Ellington biography? The sub-title, A Spiritual Biography, is critical. While Steed does an excellent job of re-telling the standard Ellington story, her special province is the spiritual aspects of Ellington's life, particularly his work from 1965-73 on ...
Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester
by Bob Jacobson
Lester Leaps In Douglas Henry Daniels Beacon Press ISBN: 0807071021 Once again the life of one of our music's most beautiful, unique voices is chronicled, this time in a historical biography. In Daniels' work you won't find detailed analyses of Young's performances or compositions, nor is the focus on juicy ...
Bright Moments: The Life & Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
by Bob Jacobson
John Kruth Welcome Rain Publishers ISBN: 1566491053 Seven years ago at a jam session in Washington, D.C.'s Twins Lounge, the house band pianist called Rahsaan Roland Kirk's “Bright Moments". To his dismay, none of the four tenor sax players, who had probably memorized hundreds of songs between them, knew this ...
Thelonius Monk Intl. Jazz Competition
by Bob Jacobson
Imagine a really great jam session. The rhythm section: Eric Reed on piano, Robert Hurst on bass, Carl Allen on drums. The emcees: T.S. Monk, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. A beautiful room with good acoustics. Eleven horn players, all trombones. Except that they're all playing one at a time, that's pretty much what the 16th ...
Reed All About It
by Bob Jacobson
As in last year's Top Brass, Bob Bernotas brings us both the big names and relative newcomers, all with fascinating stories and perspectives. Compiled from articles which appeared throughout the '90's in Saxophone Journal, Wind Player and Jazz Player, this book includes 9 profiles, 17 interviews and l6 “master classes". Most of the 36 ...
Judith Kay: Her Voice, Her Guitar, Vol. 2
by Bob Jacobson
This is Judith Kay's fifth album. Why haven't you heard of her? Kay is a “regional" artist, performing in the Delaware-Philadelphia area. For five years she was also sidelined from guitar playing by Repetitive Strain Injury ( Vol. 1 was recorded before that). After listening to this whole album, recorded in 2000, I realized ...
Stan Hope: Pastels
by Bob Jacobson
In visual art, nothing is more subtle than a pastel. Well, this album was perfectly titled, because few musical artists surpass the subtlety of Stan Hope's performance on this album. Rarely has the piano sounded more beautiful. Perhaps best known as pianist for Etta Jones and Houston Person, Hope also performs regularly in Harlem and his ...
