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Linear Jazz Improvisation: New Web Site and Book Releases

October 2, 2008

New ByrneJazz.com Web Site and Books Announcing the new ByrneJazz.com web site! Trombonist and composer Ed Byrne, will release a new edition of all 42 Linear Jazz Improvisation books: 12 Books for All Instruments and Voices: Concert, Bass Clef, Bb, and Eb. They will soon be available in spiral-bound hard copy through LuLu.com for easy reading ...

Book: Benny Green

September 30, 2008

Benny Green, The Reluctant Art (Da Capo). Dave Frishberg's recent message to Rifftides in which he recommended this book sent me scrambling in haste and embarrassment to obtain a copy. I had never read Green's book, subtitled “Five Studies in the Growth of Jazz" and should have. There are actually six studies. I am being rewarded ...

AllAboutJazz-New York October 2008 Issue Now Available

September 29, 2008

Jazz is a music almost obsessed with its own history. Sure, rock ‘n’ rollers are sometimes compared to earlier practitioners and classical musicians are required to know voluminous amounts of traditional repertoire, but jazz players usually have to deal with both issues. It is surely intimidating to a young player both to carry on a century-old ...

Danny Goldberg It's Only Rock'n' Roll

September 21, 2008

The title of Danny Goldberg’s memoir, Bumping Into Geniuses, comes from an aphorism of Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records. Ertegun’s formula for success in the music business was “walking around until you bumped into a gen ius.” A method that works well enough if, like Ertegun, you manage to bump into Ray Charles and Aretha ...

Dom Minasi's New Book: "A Guitarists' Ultimate Guide To Chord Construction and Substitution"

September 13, 2008

Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM Wins the Prestigious 2008 ARSC Book Award

September 10, 2008

Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM has won the 2008 ARSC Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. 2008 ARSC Awards for Excellence The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Begun in 1991, the ...

The Connection: The Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz

September 9, 2008

The Connection was a groundbreaking 1959 off-Broadway play from New York City's Living Theater group, written by Jack Gelber, that cast jazz musicians as heroin addicts waiting for a score. Artists that passed through the play included pianist Freddie Redd (who composed the original score), alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks, and pianist Cecil ...

The Dom Minasi Anthology

September 8, 2008

1,000 Records Before You Die

September 5, 2008

1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE A Listener's Life List A world of music awaits discovery in Tom Moon's 1,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE: A Listener's Life List (September 12, 2008; paperback/hardcover; $19.95/$32.95). Set sail with the letter A, or B or W. Land first at the familiar, and reconnect with ...

"The Glass Trumpet" - Fiction for Jazz Lovers

September 4, 2008

The Glass Trumpet By Mark Cairns 340 pages perfect bound paperback High gloss laminated and embossed cover ISBN: 9780955861505 Publisher: Scorpio Eye Press, London, England British writer and music photographer Mark Cairns offers up his first novel this year and it's chock-full of jazz. The Glass ...