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Nina Simone: The Soloist-Life of the Troubled "High Priestess of Soul" Serves up Bountiful Detail but Skimps on Insight
A Nina Simone song is recognizable from its opening notes. First comes the piano, keys striking at the ineffable point where classical music meets jazz, blues, and pop. Then the voice, deep and searching, taking ownership of the words, whether they are Leonard Cohen or George Gershwin, traditional spiritual or original composition. Otherwise known as the ...
Under a Strange, Soulful Spell
In 1960, one year after Nina Simone's first album, “Little Girl Blue," was released, the poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal of Simones music and presence--that dusky voice, that unblinking gaze--into words. “She is strange," Hughes wrote in The Chicago Daily Defender. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht. ...
Book Review (Illustrated): Pops
Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin, 474 pages, $30) A good biography of a musician makes the reader want to listen. Alexander Wheelock Thayer triggered that compulsion with his life of Beethoven, Marion Hildesheimer with Mozart, Richard Sudhalter with Bix Beiderbecke. Terry Teachout's Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong can be a ...
The New Jazz Singers
Once upon a time, the emblematic jazz singer was an African-American woman, serenading a smoke-filled room. Think Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Today, a talented crop of cosmopolitan young singers are creating a new breed of jazz vocalist: the globalized chanteuse. They come from multicultural backgrounds, live all over the world, and are infusing the traditional ...
Jack Bruce, Composing Himself: The Authorized Biography
Jack Bruce Composing Himself The Authorized Biography By Harry Shapiro, Foreword by Eric Clapton Published: March 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906002-26-8 Price: $19.95 320 Pages When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who ...
Music Genius & Industry Legend Quincy Jones Releases 'Songbook'
With the new video in the works we can all remember the original video of We Are the World. Watching all of our favorite 80's musicians and actors sing their hearts out while being lead by a music Icon, Quincy Jones. Now we can all feel apart of his musical genius with the release of the ...
Reading "New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History"
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn As I mentioned earlier, the year 2010 will see me delving deeply into the still-emerging field of jazz academia. As a part of that process, Im going to be reading a lot of books and articles. Furthermore, I am going to be ...
Randy Sandke's New Book "Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet - Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz" Has Just Been Published on Scarecrow Press
Randy Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture. This ...
The Hypochondriacs
Brian Dillon's book takes a look at nine famous people and their real and perceived ailments. One of the gags in Woody Allen's “Whatever Works" involves Allen's neurotic alter ego (Larry David) bemoaning an ulcer. When his ridiculously young girlfriend (Evan Rachel Wood) reminds him that he doesn't have an ulcer, he retorts, “I didn't say ...
Interview: Jeff Gomez of Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age (PT. 2)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor, Read Part One Has the digital age made possible and brought forth the circumstances and tools necessarily to allow for the emergence of a middle class of authors, who can support themselves on a humble income, as opposed to the 'star system' that revolves around ones capacity to become a New ...
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