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Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach: Ruminations and Reflections
by Victor L. Schermer
Ruminations and Reflections Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach 305 Pages ISBN: # 978-1 955604 10-9 Cymbal Press 2022 Saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach have worked together since the early 1970s when they got together in Liebman's loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan to improvise free ...
On Jazz: A Personal Journey
by Richard J Salvucci
On Jazz:A Personal Journey Alyn Shipton300 Pages ISBN: 978-1-108-83423-0 Cambridge University Press 2022 Alyn Shipton is a distinguished jazz journalist, bassist, BBC radio presenter and biographer who may be best known for his A New History of Jazz (Continuum, 2001). In some ways, the present volume is a ...
Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
by Matt Marshall
Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 312 Pages ISBN: #9781911036937 Jawbone Press 2022 There's a special enthusiasm in the Cleveland, Ohio, jazz orbit for avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler—an insistent push to celebrate, memorialize, canonize a legend thought to be unjustly forgotten ...
Jimi by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott
by Doug Collette
Jimi Janie Hendrix and John McDermott 320 Pages ISBN: # 978-1797220017 Chronicle Chroma 2022 Released to coincide with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday, this archetypal coffee table book is yet another in a long line of biographies recounting the life and times of the archetypal guitar ...
The Byrds: 1964-1967
by Doug Collette
The Byrds: 1964- 1967 Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman & David Crosby 400 Pages ISBN: # 978-1947026629 BMG Books 2022 In its size, weight and length, The Byrds 1964-1967 is the prototypical coffee table item/gift book. But even as the comparatively narrow time frame it covers would seem to belie ...
Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song
by Doug Collette
The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan 352 Pages ISBN: # 978-1451648706 Simon & Schuster 2022 Bob Dylan's The Philosophy of Modern Song is a labor of love by a music lover of unremitting passion. As such, it is hard to put it down once the reading commences, ...
Mingus, un omaggio a fumetti
by Neri Pollastri
Mingus Fravio Massarutto—Squaz 160 pagine Coconino 2021 Tra i tantissimi omaggi dedicati a Charles Mingus nell'anno del centenario della nascita, spicca per originalità questo libro, che tocca rapsodicamente alcuni episodi della sua vita non già tornando a narrarli o a studiarli, bensì mostrandoli visivamente con la tecnica del ...
Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts
by Doug Collette
Charlie's Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts Paul Sexton 368 Pages ISBN: # 978-0063276581 Harper Collins 2022 The infectious sing-song quality of Paul Sexton's prose for the biography of the late Charlie Watts may well surprise those music lovers ...
Tomasz Stańko: Desperado, An Autobiography
by Ian Patterson
Tomasz Stańko: Desperado, An Autobiography Tomas Stańko with Rafał Księżyk 358 Pages ISBN-13 978 180050 2222 Equinox Publishing 2022 Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko packed a lot into his 76 years before succumbing to lung cancer in 2018. A lot of music, most of it of lasting value, and a ...
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
by Richard J Salvucci
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld T. J. English 420 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-06-303141-8 William Morrow 2022 The subtitle of this not uninteresting history by T.J. English could well be “Sex, Drugs, Jazz, and the Mob," because, for the most part, that is what you get. It is a ...
