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David Sanborn Featured in Jazz Times Cover Story
Saxophonist David Sanborn is the subject of the cover story of the November 2008 issue of Jazz Times, which is hitting subscribers' mailboxes this week. The article written by Geoffrey Himes is headlined “The Blues and The Abstract Truth" - a nice nod to another famed St. Louis saxophonist, Oliver Nelson - and much of it ...
Book: Web Surfers Evolving into Superior Humans
The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order. Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through studies ...
Book: William Claxton
William Claxton, Photographic Memory (Powerhouse). This generous volume has the great photographer's pictures of a few jazz people, including shots of Chet Baker that helped make both of them famous. But here we have full-range Claxton; portraits of personalities as varied in time and occupation as Igor Stravinsky in 1956, Benicio Del Toro in 2001, Ursula Andress ...
Vinyl Mania: Jazz LP Covers from the 1940s to 1990s
Jazz Covers Wiedemann, Julius (editor) Paulo, Joaquim Taschen Softcover, flaps 9.4 x 9.4 in., 496 pages, $39.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-2366-8 Edition: English This volume features a broad selection of jazz record covers, from the 1940s through the decline of LP production in the ...
Levinson on Harry James
Although still in his late teens, James was already six-foot-one and weighed 150 pounds. He had a thin waist, no hips, and long skinny legs. To go along with his slinky frame, he had a large, oval-shaped head, a long nose and prominent ears, dark wavy hair, and a pencil-thin moustache. Perhaps his most provocative feature, ...
Texas Jazz Musician Publishes 8 Books in 2008
Author and well-known member of Houstons music community, Eddie Lewis has released eight music books this year. The titles cover a variety of trumpet music topics in both the classical and jazz genres. It may be tempting to assume that such books should be reserved for lazy Sunday afternoon reading, but beware. While the writing style ...
Michael Garrick Compositions Now in Print
Composer and pianist Michael Garrick has brought out a book of 20 of his most well-known compositions, including Dusk Fire, Black Marigolds, First Born and many more. Suitable for near beginners to advanced players, classes or individual study, or bands of any size. Available in Eb and Bb versions as well as concert pitch. Price 5 ...
A Novel of the Central Avenue Jazz Scene and an Outsider's Quest to Find a Place There
BOOK REVIEW Early Bright by Ami Silber A novel of the Central Avenue jazz scene and an outsider's quest to find a place there - and finish a song that's in his head. KINDA blue is the shelf of jazz lit, where few writers have managed to keep their cool when engaging ...
Book Prize for "Horizons Touched"
Steve Lake and Paul Griffith's, co-editors of Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM (Granta Books), have been named as winners of the 2008 Awards for Excellence in Historical Sound Research by the US-based Association for Recorded Sound Collections. The prize is for Best Research in Record Labels/Best History. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a ...
William Parker Featured in the October Issue of Downbeat
This month’s issue of DownBeat includes a feature article about bassist/composer William Parker written by David French. The article, titled “His Own ‘New Thing’”, explores Parker’s 30-year career, his musical philosophy and a number of his recordings, including his two most recent releases as a leader, Double Sunrise Over Neptune and Petit Oiseau on AUM Fidelity. ...
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