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AllAboutJazz-New York January 2009 Issue Now Available!

December 27, 2008

With our January issue featuring our Best Of 2008, we give our readers plenty of reason to brave the chill winds of winter. Please browse our two-page spread (pgs. 26-27) for categories such as Record Labels, Debut Albums, Boxed Sets as well as Albums and Performances of the Year. Even as jazz becomes more and more ...

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Shelly's Manne Hole

December 26, 2008

By early 1967, the list of artists that had played the Manne-Hole read like a Who's Who of jazz. The bandstand at the Manne-Hole had to be expanded for the big bands Shelly brought in. The bands of Kenton, Herman and Gerald Wilson were among them. Shelly continued to insist that the help not hustle the ...

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The Karaoke King

December 26, 2008

Brooklyn-based writer and karaoke obsessive Brian Raftery has written a book about his passion for belting out songs in public. Don't Stop Believing: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life follows the hobby from its Japanese origins across the ocean to America and into Raftery's heart. With over ten years of karaoke experience, from ...

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Jazz: Renolds Jazz Orchestra - Cube

December 22, 2008

"Cube" (Shanti) is a big band and vocal suite based on the Biblical events of Easter. (Reviewing it at Christmastime isn't out of place, considering the main character in each celebration.) The album features an all-star European and American group led by Swiss reedman and composer Fritz Renold. Helen Savari-Renold, his wife, handles vocals. The 10 ...

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Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master

December 22, 2008

The Gist: Scholars tend to lionize directors who develop groundbreaking styles, or who come to dominate and define a genre men like Hitchcock, Welles, Hawks and Ford. But what of the filmmaker who didn't try to stick out so much as fit in; the man-for-hire who could saddle up to any studio assignment even ...

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American Library Association Names Whale Music Book a Top Ten

December 10, 2008

Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound (Basic Books, 2008) by NJIT humanities professor, author and clarinetist David Rothenberg, has been named one of the ten best science and technology books for 2008 by Booklist on Line, a publication of the American Library Association. To research the book and learn about whale music, ...

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Enjoy Life Magazine Features Austin's First Lady of Jazz: Pamela Hart

December 7, 2008

Recently, Pamela Hart had the amazing pleasure to “sit down" with Ms. Lakesha S. Woods, Editor of Enjoy Life Magazine for an engaging and enlightening conversation. Ms. Woods was able to accurately and sincerely capture the essence of the amazing Pamela Hart and the results of the “sit down" are featured in the latest edition of ...

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Bob Dylan's "Lost" Poems with Barry Feinstein's Photos

December 5, 2008

Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript by Bob Dylan with photos by Barry Feinstein In 1964, Bob Dylan looked at a stack of Barry Feinstein's photos and wrote a pile of poems to go with them. And then, well, Dylan forgot about the whole thing. When asked, in the foreword, “Do you remember writing the text?" he ...

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Wishful Drinking

December 4, 2008

'Wishful Drinking' by Carrie Fisher The actress maintains a sense of humor about her often tumultuous life. [M]y entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. Carrie Fisher As Carrie Fisher explains it early ...