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Emil Viklicky Releases New Book of Transcriptions for Solo Piano
Czech Radio Publishing has issued a transcription book of Emil Viklicky's music titled Green Satin, Jazz for Piano Solo. Featuring fourteen of Viklicky's compositions, this publication also includes a CD of Viklicky playing each selection so as to help students understand the proper phrasing. To order a copy, send an e-mail to [email protected] or telephone Czech ...
The Digital Dilemma: Finding a Path to Salvation
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor With the rise of corporatism in the record industry throughout the 80's and 90's, executives disconnected themselves from what used to matter the most to them: the music. As the business evolved from the long-range, career-building view that artist development allowed to the short-term, hit-making machine that mass-media provided, they grew ...
Led Zeppelin: Visual Biography
Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times A Visual Biography Of The Ultimate Band By Jerry Prochnicky & Ralph Hulett, foreword by Anthony DeCurtis Arrives October 1 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times, A Visual Biography of the Ultimate Band captures the public and private lives of the legendary band through rare and ...
Thelonious Monk the Life and Times of an American Original
"...[A] breath of fresh air amongst the biographies of our legendary jazz musicians. This book is thorough, detailed and written with a true affinity for Monk's humaneness and creative musical output." --Chick Corea Composer, performer, icon of the jazz world: Thelonious Sphere Monk broke rules of musical composition and created a body of work and a ...
Early Reviews of 'The Jazz Composer, Moving Music off the Paper'
Early reviews of the jazz composer, moving music off the paper His commentaries give you new listening experiences and understanding, mindstorm of a book. Chris Searle, The Morning Star This evaluation of the art is accessible to any layman with ears. Contradicting conventional wisdom about some composers … he backs his positions with ...
Son House Bio, Preachin the Blues: The Life and Music of Son House
Guitarist/vocalist Son House was a powerful, impassioned performer and a pivotal figure in Delta Blues. University of Rochester professor Dan Beaumont has announced his forthcoming book, Preachin’ the Blues: The Life And Music Of Son House. This is the first full-length biography of Son House, and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. About ...
AllAboutJazz-New York September 2009 Issue Now Available!
This month, we mourn the passing of the seminal composer George Russell, whose book, Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, was the precursor for a modal approach to jazz and such masterworks as Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. But for such a pedigree, Russell may not be well-known to some readers. The history of jazz, for ...
"Maynard!" -- New Book About Maynard Ferguson Now Available
MAYNARD! becomes the first new book on bandleader and jazz trumpet phenomenon Maynard Ferguson in nearly a dozen years. It's 240 pages of raw MF as remembered in interviews by 30 musicians and others from his earliest U.S. gigs in the late 40s to the peak of his career on Columbia Records in the 70s. Grammy ...
New Book by Kevin Belford Chronicles Pre-WWII History of St. Louis Blues
St. Louis artist and author Kevin Belford, who has made local musicians a frequent subject of his work over the course of his career, has a new book coming out that chronicles St. Louis blues musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.Issued by St. Louis-based Virginia Publishing, Devil at the Confluence: The Pre-War Blues Music ...
Nathanael West and the Writing of 'The Day of the Locust'
The year 1939, when Europe was going up in flames and America clung to the hope that it need not become part of a world at war, turned out to be a miracle moment for Los Angeles fiction. The publication of “The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler, John Fante's “Ask The Dust," and “The Day of ...
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