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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
By Suzanne Cloud Let there be no doubt that Will Friedwald loves singers and the context from within which they sing—the songs of the great American songbook. In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Friedwald, a respected jazz writer with seven previous books on music and popular culture, has written an encyclopedically ...
Iverson on Sandke and Race in Jazz
Recently my friend who shares a Hall Overton jones, Ethan Iverson, posted two long blog entries about race and jazz, based on Randy Sandke's recent book. I'll let Ethan's pieces speak for themselves. The discussion is important. I admire Ethan's willingness to stick his neck out. I don't know Sandke—I've enjoyed his trumpet work on a ...
Effortlessness is the Enemy of Cloud-Based Music.
If you like, just skip ahead and read my latest MTT essay here. Early in January, I did a rather extensive review of Thumbplay Music. In it, I suggested features that were missing from the cloud-based music service. Soon thereafter, I was in a book store and I started flipping through The Upside of Irrationality by ...
DRUM! Magazine Editors Need Rest: Request Members To Interview Jason Bittner Of Shadows Fall In Real Time
San Jose, Calif.,—The editorial staff at Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines worldwide and online, are, well, just a bit tired of having to do all the work. So they've devised a way to shift some of their percussive editorial practice to members of their rapidly growing online drumming community. So, during the week ...
10 Things Musicians Can Learn from Douglas Rushkoff's Program or Be Programmed
[Editor's Note: The following guest post is by Marc Weidenbaum.] In an age of digital downloads, virtual instruments, and social-media fandom, everybody, musicians especially, must learn how technology is controlled. People who fail to do that run the risk of leaving themselves open to manipulation—i.e., to being controlled. That anxiety-stoking thesis is central to a new ...
"Stereotypes in Black Music" by Alan Kurtz, Reviewed by Steve Provizer
Author Alan Kurtz's thesis is: since at least the turn of the 20th century, African-American performers have been fulfilling and/or re-inforcing stereotypes of the naturally-rhythmic primitive savage-i.e., sustaining “white ethnocentric fantasies"-to advance their careers. Episodes include: Minstrelsy, the “coon song" craze, vaudeville, popular black theater ("In Dahomey," Shuffle Along," etc), Ellington's “Jungle Music," Louis Armstrong, Fats ...
Bill Bruford Autobiography: It's the book everyone's talking about...
Bill Bruford, the Godfather of progressive rock drumming, has produced a short video (below) about the origins and aims of his Autobiography, the book everyone's talking about. It's a memoir of life at the heart of progressive rock and electric and acoustic jazz. It's an honest, entertaining, and brilliantly-written account of Bill's 40 years on the ...
CD Baby Starts New Book-Selling Division, Targets Indie Authors and Imprints [launch]
CD Baby had a baby. BookBaby, to be precise, is their new venture that focuses on indie authors. After a decade in the music business and paying out $120 million to indie artists, the company has decided to level the playing field between professional and amateur authors in the same way it did with musicians. Authors ...
Book Review: The Penguin Jazz Guide by Brian Morton
The Penguin Jazz Guide by Brian Morton My rating: 5 of 5 stars After many iterations going back to the ancient Penguin Guide to Jazz on LP, Cassette and Compact Disc (written in Cuneiform script on clay tablets) the venerable guide has changed its format. Gone are the star ratings and the oft-argued about crowns that ...
Pele-Mele Works Releases “Intervallic Fretboard - Towards Improvising on the Guitar,” and Offers Guitar Players a Novel Approach to the Instrument
Pêle-Mêle Works releases a new instructional book offering guitarists a different take on the fingerboard, with improvisation as the underlying motivation: “Intervallic Fretboard Towards improvising on the Guitar," by Ashkan Mashhour and Dave Murdy. Whether in jazz, blues, rock, fusion, etc., shapes and patterns are widely used in teaching the guitar, be it for scales, chords, ...
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