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Wynton Marsalis Moves Jazz to 'Higher Ground'
Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis says that music is the “art of the invisible" -- it is memory, intention and imagination. Marsalis explains his relationship to jazz in his new book, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life. Jazz music is America's past and its potential summed up and sanctified and accessible ...
Quincy Jones Inks Two-Book Deal with Insight Edition
Insight Editions is pleased to announce a two-book publishing agreement with the legendary Quincy Jones. The first book, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions: Photos, Letters, Memories & More from Q's Personal Collection will be published October 28, 2008. Quincy Jones: 60 Years of American Music is scheduled for a September 2009 release. Random ...
Xeric Winner "Jazz: Cool Birth" Based on '50s Album Cover Design
Through study of album covers, television program title artwork, and common illustrations used in everything from health booklets to instruction manuals from the 1950s, author/designer Gary Scott Beatty created recent Xeric Foundation grant winner Jazz: Cool Birth, a jazz club murder mystery. The comic will appear in September's Previews preorder magazine under Aazurn Publishing. “I hope ...
AllAboutJazz-New York September 2008 Issue Now Available
September is traditionally back-to-school month so it is appropriate that we feature on our cover this issue Kenny Burrell, not only a legendary and influential guitarist but also Director of Jazz Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. And continuing the theme of education is our Interviewee, tuba player Bob Stewart, who is an instructor at ...
Bix Beiderbecke: Overrated?
The recent Rifftides item about the continuing medical needs of Bix Beiderbecke biographer Richard M. Sudhalter brought interesting comments about both men. You can read it and the comments here. The piece stimulated a correspondence with Paul Paolicelli, blog reader, fellow survivor of the news business and former lead trumpet player. Leaving out parts concerning unproved ...
Woodstock '69 Revisited: Stories Wanted
Literary Cottage and Adams Media are seeking fifty stories written by people who attended Woodstock in 1969 for an anthology to be published in time for the festival's 40th anniversary next summer. WOODSTOCK REVISITED will be the first book that chronicles the audience's experience in an up close and personal way. It will document the event ...
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Legendary Composer, Conductor, and Performer Lalo Schifrin Celebrates His Life with Autobiography
Mission Impossible: My Life in Music Reflects on Life's Work in Classical, Jazz, and Film LOS ANGELES, Aug 19, 2008 -- Scarecrow Press will release the autobiography of six-time Academy Award nominated composer Lalo Schifrin this summer. Mission Impossible: My Life in Music, edited by Richard Palmer, is a journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina ...
Why Tom Piazza Matters
It was one of those Jazzfest moments of perfect grace. The Carolina Chocolate Drops launched into the Blind Willie Johnson song “City of Refuge," and there, on an aisle seat, clapping along and rocking out, was music writer Tom Piazza. It was as if the Chocolate Drops were singing just for him, right to him, not ...
Dick Twardzik Bio Lives!
Richard Twardzik, the rather haunted-looking pianist who was a mainstay of the Boston jazz scene in the early 1950s, recorded only once as a leader before dying at the age of 24 during a European tour with Chet Baker. His quirky, fluid style, influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum and sprinkled with touches of dissonance ...
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