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Blues in the Press Room / Meet Me in Obits

July 30, 2008

And they call this fiction? Black & White and Dead All Over By John Darnton An editor is murdered. And the suspect? That would be all the reporters. ANY GREAT newsroom worth its salt is an ink-stained asylum, a toxic landfill, a college of cranks and a museum of misfits who never learn, despite ...

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Jazz and Jack Kerouac

July 28, 2008

“Here were the children of the American bop night," Jack Kerouac wrote in his 1957 novel On the Road, which, like many of Kerouac's other writings, celebrated and invoked the music of Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and many other jazz greats. We'll mark this weekend's 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's best-known book with a ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York August 2008 Issue Now Available

July 28, 2008

Last month found New York hosting the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The House that Ruth Built was given the honor in its final season; next season the Yankees will play in a new home. The old stadium was opened in 1923 and has been witness to some amazing baseball history. And ...

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Bob Dylan's 1966 Tour in Photographs

July 22, 2008

Dylan's Real Moments A new book of photographs by his friend Barry Feinstein takes us behind the scenes during Dylan's first electric tour of Europe. Scotland, 1966 In the book, photographer Weinstein writes of his relationship with Dylan: “Bob and I were friends long before we worked together. We hung out and ...

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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Traned' with Sonny Fortune

July 16, 2008

Traned with Sonny Fortune is a visual music composition using the medium of Photonality. Photonality uses the medium of music integrated with the properties of photography to create visual rhythmic scapes. This composition came from witnessing Sonny's interpretation of John Coltrane's Africa and Ole' and his own compositions Hanging out with JC. Sonny's genius with his ...

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Book: Roger Scruton

July 11, 2008

Roger Scruton, Culture Counts (Brief Encounters). If you're concerned that the bad in culture is driving out the good, this little book by the British philosopher and polymath may make you feel better. Scruton writes not only about music, but about architecture, painting, literature and the high-water marks of Western culture. He offers hope that lowlife ...

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In Search of the Black Fantastic

July 10, 2008

In Search of the Black Fantastic by Richard Iton. For black entertainers, the pop cultural has always been political, the author argues. When Paul Robeson declared, at the height of Cold War tensions, that black Americans would never fight for a nation that had “oppressed us for generations" in a war against the Soviet Union, the ...

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Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door

July 5, 2008

HER LIFE on screen played like an American fairy tale. A new biography looks into the shadows and 'Untold Story' of Doris Day On screen, she was America's smiling, singing darling. But off screen, her husbands weren't Rock Hudson and her life was no light romp. A former singer with Les Brown's band in the 1940s, ...