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Top Shelf Publishes Sequel to Steve Lafler's BugHouse

May 14, 2002

Baja, Top Shelf Productions, 96 pages, $9.95. By Steve Lafler Bones the bass player is the youngest member of Bughouse, a be-boppin' band of cartoon insects. In this second volume of the Bughouse saga, Bones is framed by vengeful gangster Johnny Muggles. On the lam in Mexico to cool his heels for awhile, he forms a ...

Book Launch for Louisiana Music: A Journey from R&B to Zydeco, Jazz to Country, Blues to Gospel, Cajun Music to Swamp Pop to Carnival Music and Beyond

April 29, 2002

New Orleans, LA — April 30, 2002 — What is it about Louisiana that breeds and attracts musicians? There are literally hundreds of them: Dr. John, the Meters, the Marsalis family, the Neville Brothers, Harry Connick, Jr., Irma Thomas, Lucinda Williams, Allen Toussaint, all part of a tradition going back to Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Professor ...

"Blue Note Records: The Biography" By Richard Cook

From the well known author of the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD comes the definitive tale of the most famous jazz label of all time: Blue Note Records. Blue Note Records is arguably the single most recognizable record label in the history of recorded music. To millions of jazz fans around the world, Blue Note ...

All Music Guide to Jazz: Fourth Edition Fully Updated

Doctor Sets Out to Right Wrongs in Jazz Historical Record

Reading biographies of the jazz greats, Dr. Frederick J. Spencer often found something lacking. “The careers of many jazz musicians may have been accurately documented," Spencer writes in the introduction to his new book Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats (University Press of Mississippi), “but accounts of their illnesses and deaths often vary and ...

Tresser Printing Office offers 64page folio on the original music of Stuart H. Tresser

Tresser Printing Office and Jazzbone Records offers for sale at website http://www.jazzbonerecords.com the original music of Stuart H. Tresser in a neatly printed folio. Of course, if you are looking to get the tunes FREE, they can be also printed out a page at the time. New artists and agents are invited to check out this ...

Signal to Noise #25 now available!

SIGNAL to NOISE #25 is now available! What happens when musical words collide? Ecstatic jazz pianist MATTHEW SHIPP encounters DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID in a freewheeling and wide-ranging conversation. Photos by Michael Galinsky With field recordings, freeform jazz and oddball humor, REVEREND DWIGHT FRIZZELL bridges the disparate worlds of Sun Ra, Harry Smith and Harry ...

The New Book “Bebop Improv Concepts” Is Now Available As An Ebook

Author, Hans Fahling, has compiled practice techniques and teaching philosophies in this book & CD package which allows a player to progressively construct a musical foundation on his/her instrument along the lines of this self-learning method. The book methodically prescribes practice drills for musical concepts that will be successively applied in playing-type situations, which are supplemented ...

Unsmooth Jazz - Authors Make Readers Think About Jazz in New Ways

February 19, 2010

Some books are meant to be read and some books are meant to be referred to. Gary Giddins's Visions of Jazz, which won a bevy of awards in 1998, belongs in the first category. Jazz, an encyclopedic undertaking co-written with jazz historian Scott DeVeaux, falls into the second. It is vast, thorough, illuminating, thought-provoking, beautifully written ...

Scott Yanow Pens Essential Listener's Guide to the Jazz Age

San Francisco-Classic Jazz: The Musicians & Recordings that Shaped Jazz, 1895-1933 from Backbeat Books explores the birth and early development of a truly American art form. Written by veteran jazz journalist Scott Yanow, this is the only guide music lovers need to understand how jazz began, and to enjoy great recordings made by the innovative artists ...