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Jimi by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott

by Doug Collette
November 8, 2022

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 ...

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The Byrds: 1964-1967

by Doug Collette
November 6, 2022

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 ...

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Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song

by Doug Collette
October 30, 2022

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, ...

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Mingus, un omaggio a fumetti

by Neri Pollastri
October 20, 2022

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 ...

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Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts

by Doug Collette
October 8, 2022

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 ...

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Tomasz Stańko: Desperado, An Autobiography

by Ian Patterson
September 30, 2022

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 ...

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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

by Richard J Salvucci
September 19, 2022

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 ...

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

by Doug Collette
September 17, 2022

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

by Kyle Simpler
September 9, 2022

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

by C. Michael Bailey
September 6, 2022

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 ...