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Jefferson's Wee Little Book

July 5, 2008

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Jefferson Bible reveals Founding Father's view of God, Faith SCHOLAR: Robert C. Ritchie says many people would consider it desecration to take a scissors to the Bible. “Yet, it gives a reading into Jefferson's take on the Bible, which was not as divine word put into ...

AllAboutJazz-New York July 2007 Issue Now Available

June 30, 2008

After an uncommon flirtation with spring this year, summer seemed to make up for lost time by brutalizing the city with a week of despotic weather. We all feared that August had come two months early but things seemed to have settled comfortably into an enjoyable climate for the foreseeable future. One musician who has settled ...

Studs Terkel's Giants of Jazz

June 29, 2008

Studs Terkel's first book, Giants of Jazz, is a beautifully illustrated collection of portraits of America's jazz legends. Inspired by a childhood fascination with jazz, Terkel uses firsthand interviews with artists such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker to tell the human stories behind the heroes that shaped this uniquely ...

Bobby Zankel & the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound in New Published Book "Tritone Tantra" in the Photonality Jazz Series

June 26, 2008

Tritone Bar at 15th and South street in Philadelphia has become the mecca for Big Band enlightenment. Bobby Zankel (who writes all the compositions and arrangements) and The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound have lifted this small bar to music heights every first thursday of the month for the last seven years. Tritone Tantra is a ...

Traps Magazine Sells out Lenny White; Issue 6 Feature on Return to Forever Drummer: Free Download Available

June 24, 2008

San Jose, Calif., -- With Return To Forever receiving rave reviews, it should be no surprise that Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum/percussion magazines worldwide, has completely sold out Issue 6, featuring Lenny White on the Cover. As a result, Enter Music Publishing has made available the Lenny White feature as a free download here. ...

Bruce Springsteen Limited Edition Book

June 22, 2008

Through the years, I've read almost every book written about Springsteen. Some are great and many are not. Over time, I've even become cynical when I hear about new books. In the last few years, there have been a plethora of coffee table book releases in the Springsteen world. Each one in itself is a gorgeous ...

Love at First Touch

June 15, 2008

Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano. The real hero of Katie Hafner's book “A Romance on Three Legs" is not, as the subtitle suggests, the pianist Glenn Gould, or even the piano he was obsessed with, but a nearly blind man named Verne Edquist, who confirms that behind every great pianist is a great ...

Recent Listening, in Brief

June 13, 2008

James Carter, Present Tense (Emarcy). When he burst onto the jazz scene from Detroit in the early '90s, Carter's virtuosity on an arsenal of woodwinds sometimes overrode content in his music. After a three-year recording hiatus, he reappears with no loss of dazzle and with the benefits of self-editing. Carter mixes original compositions and classics. Highlights: the ...

Book: Glenn Gould

June 11, 2008

"Homeland & Hiphop " with Rick Iannacone / New Book Published in the Photonality Jazz Series

June 8, 2008

Homeland & HipHop is a visual music composition from the performance of legendary Philadelphia guitarist Rick Iannacone at Tritone on South Street in Philly. Rick's sound is like standing in the eye of a hurricane where everything is still and the movement of sound is whirling around you. One can hear homeland jazz, funk, hip hop, ...