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Chasing the African Rhythms

Chasing the African Rhythms

African Rhythms, the as-told-to autobiography of the NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston (composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins; Duke University Press) is set for October release to the retail marketplace. In the meantime we have embarked on the first in a series of forthcoming book signings and other book-related events coupled with Weston performances. ...

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Book blog: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

Book blog: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

A new book in progress by Bob Gluck traces the evolution of Herbie Hancock's music through 1973, focusing on the Mwandishi band. The title is: You'll Know When You Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). The blog discusses the most poignant issues that have arisen in the process of ...

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Enter Music Publishing Presses "Rock Royalty Issue" Featuring Tommy Lee And John Bonham; Looking Back And Drumming Forward

San Jose, Calif.,—Enter Music Publishing, publishers of DRUM!, has published a very special “Rock Royalty" Issue. Featuring kings of the throne, Mötely Crüe's Tommy Lee and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, DRUM! explores the impact of these percussion heroes in the present and the past. And to celebrate the rock royalty issue Enter Music Publishing is offering ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum + Vasco Gato at BYPASS #2 Launch: Sao Luiz Theatre, Lisbon, Portugal

Taylor Ho Bynum + Vasco Gato at BYPASS #2 Launch: Sao Luiz Theatre, Lisbon, Portugal

LAUNCH BYPASS #2 Performance by Taylor Ho Bynum & Vasco Gato Curators Álvaro Seiça Neves & Gaëlle Silva Marques Teatro São Luiz | Winter Garden | Lisbon, Portugal Monday, October 4, 7 pm BYPASS presents, on the day of the launch of its 2nd issue, the music concert/performance between the North American musician Taylor ...

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12 Books That the Record Industry Needs to Read

12 Books That the Record Industry Needs to Read

Grab a book off the list and enjoy it. Over the last few months, we've been asking some of the leading voices in our field to send in their summer reading lists for the Hypebot community. I won't go as far as to say that this is a definitive list of the books that the music ...

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He, Too, Was America: Duke Ellington's Sepia Panorama

When it comes to biography, the life of pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington has presented a challenge worthy of its maestro's motto: “beyond category." Ellington was born in 1899 and died in 1974; in between, he merely led a world-class jazz orchestra for 50 years, wrote or co-wrote pieces that number in the thousands, and ...

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Music Without Borders - Extraordinary Conversations with Extraordinary Musicians

Music Without Borders - Extraordinary Conversations with Extraordinary Musicians

BJORK, CHUCK D, ANI DIFRANCO, BELA FLECK, MCCOY TYNER, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN AND 18 OTHER LEGENDARY MUSICIANS REVEAL UNIQUE, IN-DEPTH INSIGHTS IN INNERVIEWS: MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS BOOK—FOREWORD BY VICTOR WOOTEN Twenty-four of the world's most renowned musicians share incredibly candid, in-depth thoughts on the joy and pain of the creative process, their careers and aspirations, conflicts and ...

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A Fine Vintage Wein

George Wein knew and/or worked with just about everyone in jazz over the last half century. His autobiography, Myself Among Others (Da Capo, 2004), written with Nate Chinen, is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the life of a jazz producer and sometime performer. Wein grew up in the Boston area and opened the Storyville Club there ...

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David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries Audiobook 9/28

PAPERBACK AND E-BOOK AVAILABLE THE SAME DAY David Byrne's bestselling Viking Press hardcover, Bicycle Diaries, will be released as an enhanced audiobook September 28 with pre-orders beginning today. Offered exclusively at www.bicycle-diaries.com, this new edition is narrated by Byrne and features music (by Byrne) and location sounds to create an atmosphere more akin to a radio ...

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Paste Magazine Suspends Print Publication

Paste Magazine Suspends Print Publication

Music magazine Paste announced yesterday that it will no longer publish a print edition. “Struggles with mounting debt were made public last year when our readers responded with generosity to save the magazine. But the prolonged downturn of the ad market has forced a hiatus," according to a post on the site. Moving to web-only has ...


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