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Dennis Hopper: Photographs, 1961-1967
I was doing something that I thought could have some impact someday. In many ways, it's really these photographs, that kept me going creatively. - Dennis Hopper The Sixties In all their turbulence and revelation, have been documented many times over but the photographic recollections of actor/artist/director Dennis Hopper have set ...
AllAboutJazz-New York June 2010 Issue Now Available!
Despite the burgeoning reputations of other cities, New York still remains the jazz capital of the world, if only for sheer volume. A night in NYC is a month, if not more, anywhere else - an astonishing amount of music packed in its 305 square miles (Manhattan only 34 of those!). This is normal for the ...
The B.B. King Treasures: Photos, Mementos & Music from B. B. King's Collection
In 1947, with a two-and-a-half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, Riley B. King, a sharecropper moonlighting as a blues and gospel musician, hitchhiked to Memphis from his home in Indianola, Mississippi. Today, after touring the world as an ambassador of the blues for more than half a century, B. B. King ...
Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Like a celebration thrown by B.B. for his countless fans, published for the occasion of his 80th birthday, The B. B. King Treasures brings remembrances, photos, and rare and personal memorabilia together in a magnificent collection from his life and career. In 1947, with a two-and-a-half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, ...
George Washington's Library Book Returned, 221 Years Later
It was over two centuries late, but a copy of a library book George Washington borrowed was returned yesterday to a New York library. The former president borrowed “The Law of Nations" by Emer de Vattel on 5 October 1789, according to the records of the New York Society Library. Staff discovered it was missing when ...
Jazz Life
In 1959 and 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music. The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary artists as well as unknown street musicians. The book Jazzlife, the original fruit of their labors, has ...
Nothing But the Blues
“Nothing But the Blues : The Music and the Musicians." In this extensively illustrated, comprehensive volume, Grammy-winning CD producer Lawrence Cohn provides an elegant pictoral and intellectual history. This compilation of 11 articles examines the beginnings and progress of the blues. The book starts with a penetrating essay by noted blues writer Samuel Chaters, who investigates ...
WMG's Edgar Bronfman Jr. Subject of Tell All Book
“Fortune's Fool" To Be Released July 13th WMG CEO will be getting the dreaded tell all book treatment this summer when Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis is released by Simon & Schuster. Authored by Fred Goodman, best known for the unflattering music business expos The Mansion on the Hill: ...
Swing Journal, Long-Standing Jazz Magazine, to be Suspended in June
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Swing Journal, a long-standing monthly magazine that has led the jazz culture of postwar Japan, is being suspended with its July edition that goes on sale on June 19, mainly due to dwindling advertisement revenues, its publisher said Monday. The magazine, first published in 1947, played a central role in expanding the musical ...
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
The Princes Noire by Nadine Cohodas, is an exhaustive but plodding biography that tries to pin down a musical artist surrounded by myth. Like her unprocessed voice and Bach-meets-barrelhouse piano style, Nina Simone's life story is peculiar, beautiful, sometimes off-key and off-color but deeply, disturbingly dramatic. In the 1960s, the “high priestess of soul" wrote and/or ...
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