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Book Review: ECM 40th Anniversary Catalog by Kenny Inaoka, Et. Al. Ed.
ECM catalog by 稲岡 邦彌 A labor of love for all concerned, especially editor Kenny Inaoka and contributor Nobu Stowe, this lavishly illustrated catalog traces all of the albums released by the ECM label both in Europe and Japan and also provides complete discographical information for each album in English and commentary in Japanese. The catalog ...
Photographer Juan-Carlos Hernandez's Book "Estelas de Jazz" Now Available in Amazon and Barnes & Noble
After seven years of visually capturing jazz musicians around the world, Juan-Carlos Hernandez has compiled his first book of photos entitled Estelas de Jazz, available worldwide through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Hernandez collaborated with Spanish writer Belen Carmona Moreno whose literary writings accompany 100+ black and white photographs. Though the photographs are in the universal ...
New Publisher Scheduled To Release New Miles Davis Book
DJ Antomattei, an American pro DJ residing in Tokyo, Japan has recently setup his own publishing house known as Marc Antomattei Press (MAP). The company is scheduled to release its first book during early 2011. Contrary to the first publication supposedly being a club and nightlife guide for the metropolis of Tokyo, the author had a ...
The Boombox Project
Music and technology have always behaved like two escapees from a Georgia chain gang. Battles were routine, but the shackled pair eventually came to their senses and realized that they weren't going to get far unless they learn to compromise and accommodate each other. Since the 1920s, American music has changed repeatedly with the development of ...
Jazz pianist Mika Pohjola releases "101 Compositions"
One Hundred One compositions by Mika Pohjola is one of most important musical statements to-date by the Finnish-born New York jazz pianist who also writes classical music. In 2009, Pohjola was cited as one of fifty “most influential pianists since 1990," by Jazz, a 700- page book on jazz history, authored by Gary Giddins and Scott ...
Book Review: Djibouti by Elmore Leonard
Djibouti by Elmore Leonard My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dara is a documentary film-maker based in New Orleans, after doing films on Hurricane Katrina and the war in Bosnia. When she turns her attention to the pirates hijacking ships off the coast of Africa she finds more than she bargained for. She and her partner ...
Kenny Davern: Just Four Bars
Readers accustomed to novels may find most jazz biographies only intermittently satisfying. Lives, of course, cannot be arranged into dramatic arcs worthy of Trollope or Faulkner—but, just the same, the chronicle of the life and music of your favorite musician often has all its drama in the beginning: attempts to find a personal style, to become ...
Books: Coltrane on Coltrane
Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris DeVito This fascinating book gathers together all known and available interviews with the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The volume is arranged chronologically, beginning with a few newspaper articles during his career as a sideman with the likes of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, and then moving ...
Douglas Rushkoff: "If You Are Not a Programmer, then You Are One of the Programmed."
(UPDATED) I've been granted a fascinating and awesome opportunity to take an online class hosted by one of the leading technology and media critics of our time Douglas Rushkoff, author of my favorite book Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back and the man behind documentaries such as Merchants ...
Book: Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff, At The Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years On The Jazz Scene (U of California Press). Hentoff is our leading avatar of the proposition that jazz is a living expression of the principles embedded in the US constitution, of which he is also a scholar. He does not deal in technical analysis of music. He ...
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