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The Thorazine Mirrorball: Jazz Mystery Getting Raves
LA Jazz musician Jack Maeby's thriller, The Thorazine Mirrorball is garnering critical acclaim from the literary and jazz communities alike. Dick Wood, host of “Jazz Tracks” on WABY Radio, raves “What an exciting read! You can almost hear the music. I couldn’t put the darn thing down." Aaron Lazar, writing for Futures Mystery Magazine says, “a ...
Steve McQueen Was a Pilot Not Celebrity at Santa Paula Airport
The Great Escape superstar, who played chess to jazz while seducing Faye Dunaway, in real life spent his last year where he was treated as an average Joe. Friends recall his kindness and love of cheap beer. One day in 1979, the King of Cool decided to fly. Before anyone knew it, Steve McQueen was living ...
AllAboutJazz-New York December 2008 Issue Now Available
We would be remiss not to mention the significant election results that usher in this holiday season. With the highest voter turnout since the ‘60s being estimated and an African-American President for the first time in US history, we are witnessing momentous events. Though it will be some time before we see if the promise is ...
Strollin: A Jazz Life Through John Levys Personal Lens
Holidays are the perfect times to reminisce, and at the age of 96, with contemplation in mind, the oldest living NEA Jazz Master takes a Stroll back in time to share thoughts and images from his personal jazz journey in a new book, Strollin: A Jazz Life Through John Levy's Personal Lens by Devra Hall Levy ...
Ornette Coleman Said It
"I was out at [anthropologist] Margaret Mead's school and was teaching some little kids how to play instantly. I asked the question, 'How many kids would like to play music and have fun?' And all the little kids raised up their hands. And I asked, 'Well, how do you do that?' And one little girl said, ...
Give the Editors and Drummers Some: Drum! Magazine Publishes 150th Anniversary with Percussion Mini-Magazine
San Jose, Calif., November 20, 2008-- Eighteen years ago, two drum/percussion magazine professionals, Andy Doershuk and Phil Hood, lost their jobs with a prominent publishing conglomerate. In an economy, that was certainly not thriving, the two men made a commitment to establish their own drum/percussion magazine business. The result was Enter Music Publishing and over nearly ...
A Photo Album to Crystallize 30 Years of Passion - The Festival Under the Stars
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 — For 30 years, the Festival International de Jazz de Montral has created an incredible array of magical moments, as captured in The Festival Under the Stars, a magnificent album specially created to celebrate three decades of passion. Through the 144 pages and hundreds of photos of this brand-new book, fans can ...
Quincy Jones Looks Back in Hardcover
You know the real reason you do a book like this? It's so you can actually remember all the things that have happened to you in 75 years of life. Quincy Jones- let out a loud laugh at that one. The man who has 27 Grammys on his shelves has been playing a ...
Thomas Jefferson His Slave Mistress and the Antebellum South
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed A look at the third president, his slave mistress and the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson is an American icon. Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France, our first secretary of State, vice president and ultimately the third president. But it has ...
Trading Fours: A Novel About Music
TRADING FOURS captures a single day in the life of four musicians, whose lives intersect in profound ways, much like the very intersection of a musical trading fours that builds to a great dramatic cadence. Los Angeles native Angela Carole Brown is a musician, novelist, and award-winning poet (Heritage Magazine Award), who has brought us her ...
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