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Jazz & Blues Florida August 2012 Online Edition Posted
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's best and only free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. Readers throughout Florida and tourists coming from around the world consult this site for information on the increasingly vibrant scene to be found throughout the state. ...
Jazz Composition and Arranging In The Digital Age
Jazz Composition and Arranging In the Digital Age is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman and Michael Abene combine their extensive years of experience as musicians and instructors to ...
Turn Your Band into a Virus... with a Book?
Guest post by Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. We have learned to be leery of marketing. After all, marketers and advertisers are paid to push commodities — human and otherwise — on the defenseless masses whether or not they believe in what they're selling, or so the story goes. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but we've all ...
Classic Jazz Artists In New Book By Renown Photographer Bob Willoughby
Bob Willoughby was one of the great photographers of classic Hollywood and its stars; his photos throughout the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s were seen in Look, Life, and Harper’s Bazaar. Willoughby was also a jazz lover who took hundreds of photos of the burgeoning California Jazz scene and its most pivotal and innovative magicians. For the ...
West Coast Release Party For "The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story"
Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012), on the West Coast at a reading event in San Diego, California. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with the intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane ...
New Boston Book Looks Back On A Sparkling Jazz Scene
Nat Pierce, Joe Gordon, and Charlie Mariano started their careers in Boston. It’s where Nat Hentoff worked as a deejay, George Wein planned the Newport Jazz Festival, and Lawrence Berk started the Berklee School of Music. Richard Vacca writes about all of them and more in The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937–1962, the ...
A Spotify playlist for Ted Gioia's "The Jazz Standards" of 2,000 songs
My passage as a listener into the jazz world was accidental and fortuitous. As a young rock fan browsing the vinyl cutouts at Jack's Record Rack, I found one of Miles Davis' Live at the Blackhawk albums for $1.99 or so. Something about the moody cover appealed to me, so I bought it. Not long after ...
Coming Soon: "Menage a Bughouse" by Cartoonist Steve Lafler
Cartoonist Steve Lafler teams up with publisher CO2 to release Ménage a Bughouse. a 408-page volume collecting Lafler's trilogy of Bughouse graphic novels, Bughouse, Baja and Scalawag. Bughouse is the story of Jimmy Watts and his band of jazz playing bugs. The character driven story is set in a stylish “insect-noir” world, invoking an indigo-toned Manhattan ...
Former All About Jazz Contributor Martin Gladu Publishes Biographical Essay On Calvin Lampley
Pianist Teddy Wilson’s concert appearances with Benny Goodman in 1935 and Quincy Jones’ employment as a corporate executive at a major label in 1964 appear to be foremost references in the popular music literature on the integration of African Americans. Yet the pioneering accomplishments of lesser known figures are often neglected in favour of the more ...
Enter Music Publishing Rushes To Mike Portnoy For July Cover Of DRUM!; Portnoy Proves His Drumming Diversity Since Dream Theater
San Jose, Calif., — Enter Music Publishing, print and online publishers of percussion mags features a compelling editorial on Mike Portnoy in the July 2012 Issue of DRUM!. And, if anything can be said of Portnoy since his departure from Dream Theater it is that he is not resting on his laurels. In fact, it’s amazing ...
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