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Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen by Peter Jones

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Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen by Peter Jones Peter Jones 368 pages ISBN: #978-1641606875 Chicago Review Press 2022 In his introduction to Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, author Peter Jones could hardly have drawn a more clear outline for his biography of Steely ...

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The Extraordinary Journey Of Jason Miles: A Musical Biography

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The Extraordinary Journey of Jason Miles: A Musical Biography Jason Miles 311 Pages ISBN: # 978-1-955901-13-0 Book Writing Cube 2022 Some musicians are often better known for what they can do rather than what they can play. Take Les Paul for example. Although he was an excellent musician in ...

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Life Through The Eyes Of A Jazz Journalist

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Life Through The Eyes Of A Jazz Journalist Scott Yanow 291 Pages ISBN-13: # 978-1958324028 Amazon Pro Hub 2022 Meet the Sisyphus who rolled the rock all the way up the hill. His name is Scott Yanow. Yanow's is a name that should be known, if not ...

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Playing Jazz In Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hanoi

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Playing Jazz In Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hanoi Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh 269 Pages ISBN: 9781496836335 University Press of Mississippi 2021 That an aspiring Vietnamese musician in this day and age can study jazz at conservatoire level in Hanoi, or jam ...

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A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

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A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival John Lingan 384 pages Pages ISBN: 978-0306846717 Hachette Book Group 2022 At least according to the back-cover blurbs, John Lingan conceived and executed his chronicle of Creedence Clearwater Revival as more than just the biography of a band. It ...

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The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic By Peter Shapiro

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The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic Peter Shapiro 352 Pages ISBN: 978-0306845185 Hachette Book Group 2022 By the time readers finish poring through the three hundred fifty-two some pages of The Music Never Stops, ...

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George Michael, A Life

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George Michael: A Life James Gavin 528 Pages ISBN-13: # 978-1419747946 Harry N. Abrams 2022 Music biographer, James Gavin, summed up his approach to picking biography subjects during his discussion* with Jamie Brickouse in Interview magazine: “With all that I write, my antennae vibrate from miles away ...

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Tatjana Rantasha: Jazzthetics

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Jazzthetics Tatjana Rantasha 120 pages Avant Press 2022 Behind every photographer, there are years of training and experience, plenty of time spent on preparation for shooting, days of selection and post-production and only one second of shooting. And yet, when done well, a moment has been frozen in time and ...

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Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

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Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer Philip Watson 548 Pagine ISBN: 978-0-571036166-3 Faber 2022 Per la biografia di uno dei più importanti artisti degli ultimi 50 anni serviva un autore fuori dal coro e Philip Watson lo è di sicuro. Noto per la sua attività di giornalista (Esquire, Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday ...

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Elegant People: A History Of The Band Weather Report

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Elegant People: A History Of The Band Weather Report Curt Bianchi 496 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4930-5999-7 Backbeat Books 2021 Few bands hold a place in jazz history quite like Weather Report, the band formed in 1971 by Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and Miroslav Vitous. The term “jazz-fusion" could have been ...


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