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Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City 1964-1972

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Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City 1964-1972 Carolyn Glenn Brewer 266 Pages ISBN: # 978-1-57441-823-1 University of North Texas Press 2021 Although Pat Metheny is in many aspects a global citizen, he is first and foremost a native of Missouri. His midwestern-American background and influences appear in ...

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Flavio Caprera: Franco D’Andrea - Un Ritratto

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Franco D'Andrea--Un Ritratto Flavio Caprera 209 pagine ISBN: # 978-88-5925-727-1 EDT 2021 Lo scorso marzo, Franco D'Andrea ha compiuto ottant'anni. Giornalisticamente parlando, un'evidente e ghiotta occasione per ripercorrerne le vicende umane ed artistiche. Sarebbe tuttavia riduttivo vedere in questo Ritratto, che Flavio Caprera ha dedicato ...

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Little Leaps and Sounds: 12 Intermediate Jazz Studies

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Little Leaps and Sounds: 12 Intermediate Jazz Studies Adam Larson 61 Pages Self Published 2021 When enterprising tenor saxophonist Adam Larson released Leaps & Sounds: 12 Contemporary Etudes For Jazz Saxophone (Self-Published, 2018), there wasn't anything quite like it in the educational market. Using contrafacts to push technique in ...

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Guido Michelone: Il Jazz e le idee

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Il Jazz e le idee Guido Michelone 297 pagine ISBN: 978-88-6231-714-6 Arcana Edizioni 2020 In che modo la musica jazz si relaziona al mondo? Com'è interrelata alle altre musiche ed espressioni artistiche? Che relazioni ha con le idee intese come fenomeni umani? E, più specificamente, che cos'è esattamente un'idea? ...

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Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz

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Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz David Burke 240 Pages ISBN: 9781908755483 Desert Hearts 2021 David Burke's survey of British jazz musicians of colour does not begin promisingly. The first sentence of his Foreword reads: “Jazz is, of course, African-American in provenance, just as the greatest ...

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Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise

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Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise Joel Selvin 320 Pages ISBN: # 978-1487007218 House of Anansi Press 2021 Joel Selvin may well grab the reader's attention with his very first sentence of Hollywood Eden. and quite likely never lose it over the ...

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Ben Sidran, There Was A Fire

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There Was a Fire-Jews Musica and the American Dream [Nuova edizione] Ben Sidran 404 pagine ISBN: # 978-0-578-77359-9 Nardis Books 2021 Esce in queste settimane negli Stati Uniti la nuova edizione—revisionata e aggiornata a tutto il 2020—del fondamentale volume di Ben Sidran del 2012, che delinea il contributo ...

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Glen Sweeney's Book of Alchemies - The Life and Times of the Third Ear Band 1969-1973

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Glen Sweeney's Book of Alchemies Luca Chino Ferrari 226 pagine ISBN: 978-0-9560184-6-5 ReR Megacorp 2020 Uno tra i gruppi storici della scena underground londinese dei tardi anni '60, la Third Ear Band fondata dal percussionista Glen Sweeney sta vivendo un momento di rinnovato interesse. Dapprima la Esoteric Recordings ...

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Bruno Tommaso: La Scuola che sognavo

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La Scuola che sognavo Bruno Tommaso con Alfredo Gasponi 209 pagine ISBN: 978-88-905478-3-6 EDI-PAN Edizioni Musicali 2020 Questa non è una biografia, anche se è composta da un mosaico di tessere biografiche. Bruno Tommaso definisce il testo un libello, ma c'è molto di più: una serie di riflessioni su ...

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Laurie Anderson: All the Things I Lost in the Flood

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All The Things I Lost In The Flood Laurie Anderson 320 Pages ISBN: 9780847860555 Rizzoli Electa 2018 The story of performance artist and cultural icon Laurie Anderson's book All The Things I Lost In The Flood started in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy (the third costliest storm in U.S. history) ...


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