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Countdown To Raise Funds for Revolutionary Publishing Technology Featuring Sheila Jordan

February 15, 2012

NEA Jazz Master, Sheila Jordan, never imagined her biography would be an innovative digital media book. For more than five years, author and vocalist Ellen Johnson has been researching and writing Jordan's fascinating life story about the vocal jazz legend. “Jazz Child: The Sheila Jordan Story," a Kickstarter crowd-funding project, will be created with the latest ...

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Beatty's "Jazz: The Tiki Room" in Free Online Magazine

February 13, 2012

Xeric winner Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: The Tiki Room fiction is featured in the free online magazine MuskegonOnline.NET this month only. The story, in a modernist retro style, follows jazz pianist Dean Fontessa as he pulls together—then splits apart—a five piece combo for a club recently decorated in that happening, new style called tiki. Spin a ...

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases his first children's book

January 26, 2012

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases his first children's book. The NBA's all time leading scorer champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in a fascinating new children's book. What Color is my World? The Lost History of African-American Inventors Did you know that James West's technology is in the microphone of your cell phone? Or that Fred Jones invented the ...

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Armen Donelian's New Book, "Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass," Just Published by Advance Music

January 19, 2012

Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass, the third instructional book by veteran pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Armen Donelian, has just been published by Advance Music. Written in a conversational tone, the book “offers practical guidance grounded on principles of music theory, rhythm, analysis and composition as well as physics, anatomy and holistic development," Donelian writes in ...

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Spin Magazine Replaces Most Album Reviews with 140 Character Tweets

January 14, 2012

Spin Magazine, the 26 year old music magazine once known for it's counter-culture reporting (today known to be more pop-culture centered), has announced that it will be moving a large portion its album reviews over to Twitter, with more than 1,500 album reviews this year alone arriving as 140-character tweets. The magazine has said, however, that it ...

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Jazz & Blues Florida January 2012 Online Edition Posted

January 8, 2012

The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. This edition marks the first edition of the fourth year of operating completely online. The January 2011 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com. ...

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"Half-Blood Blues," A Novel by Esi Edugyan

January 4, 2012

MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST 2011 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE “Unforgettable... Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously executed. It's a work that promises to lead black literature in a whole new direction." —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “A superbly atmospheric prologue kick-starts a thrilling story about truth and betrayal... [A] ...

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Rick Britto Releases a Contemporary Jazz CD "For Your Love"

January 4, 2012

For Your Love featuring jazz saxophonist, Rick Britto is a Contemporary Jazz recording of all fresh and exciting originals songs for lovers to enjoy! The album covers many styles of Contemporary Jazz music crossing from R&B and Soul to Funk and Hip Hop even Reggae and Latin grooves which all make up the foundation of the ...

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The Free Internet Archive Of “Jazz Forum” Magazine Now Avaiilable Online

December 29, 2011

In November, 2011, the Zbigniew Seifert Foundation launched the polishjazzarch.com internet site. The site provides online access to the full contents of “JAZZ FORUM" magazine issues from the first 24 years of its publication in all three language editions: Polish (1965-1989) and international: in English (1967-1989) and German (1976-1981). The internet archive comprises more than 15,000 ...

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Barry Cleveland Publishes eBook Second Edition of Cult Classic Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques

December 14, 2011

Veteran music journalist Barry Cleveland (currently an editor at Guitar Player magazine) has published the Second Edition of his now cult classic—Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques—as an eBook, available via Apple iBooks, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble for $4.99. Joe Meek's Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition, and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and ...