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Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years
by Joel Roberts
Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years William Minor and Bill Wishner 176 pages ISBN: 0-883318-40-8 Angel City Press 1997 The opening night of the first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958 featured performances by Gerry Mulligan, Max Roach, Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Harry James, and, just ...
Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
by Doug Collette
Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon Joel Selvin 288 Pages ISBN: #978-1635768992 Diversion Books2024 In keeping with the title of Drums & Demons, Joel Selvin's account of The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon is a schizophrenic piece of work. A seasoned journalist who's distinguished himself with ...
Jazz Europeo - Non di solo passaporto
by Giuseppe Segala
Jazz Europeo--Non di solo passaporto Livio Minafra, Ugo Sbisà 212 Pagine ISBN: # 979-1281664005 I Quaderni di Digressione 2023 D'accordo, il jazz non ha bisogno di passaporti. Il passaporto è la musica stessa. Piuttosto, ha bisogno di passepartout, di una chiave universale che possa aprire le porte massicce ...
Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View
by Harvie S
Bass Notes: Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View Chuck Israels 240 Pages ISBN: 1493074849 Backbeat Books 2024 Chuck Israels developed musically in what many would say was an extremely fertile time in Jazz. I'm talking about the 1960s. Of course, his stint with Bill Evans during ...
Jazz And Death: Reception, Rituals And Representations
by Ian Patterson
Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals and Representations Walter van de Leur 200 Pages ISBN: 9781138553422 Routledge 2023 The title might seem a tad non-felicitous, but it surely invites reflection. How do we respond to and commemorate jazz musicians' deaths? In what ways do these rituals manifest themselves from one ...
Coltrane, il frastornante riflesso dell’universo
by Libero Farnè
John Coltrane--Tranesonic o il riflesso dell'universo Aldo Gianolio e Piercarlo Poggio 129 pagine Tuttle Edizioni 2024 Bisogna ammettere che negli ultimi anni l'offerta editoriale italiana di argomento jazzistico è tutt'altro che avara di proposte. Merito del lavoro lodevolissimo e disinteressato di tante case editrici, per lo più piccole e amatoriali ...
In With The In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
by Richard J Salvucci
In With The In Crowd Mike Smith232 Pages ISBN: 978-1496851154 University Press of Mississippi/Jackson 2024 There is a legal adage that hard cases make bad law. Extreme circumstances make it difficult to accommodate less fraught or complex situations. Histories of jazz in the United States can be a bit ...
Living The Beatles Legend: The Untold Story Of Mal Evans
by Doug Collette
Living The Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans Kenneth Womack 592 Pages ISBN: #978-0063248526 Dey Street Books2023 Kenneth Womack covers a tremendous amount of ground in writing The Untold Story of Mal Evans. Granted, Living The Beatles Legend runs nearly six-hundred pages including scrupulous footnotes as well ...
Sly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin)
by Richard J Salvucci
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir Sly Stone With Ben Greenman 297 Pages ISBN: 9780374606978 Auwa Books2023 Some readers may remember a time before Sly and the Family Stone. There was music--music you might reasonably call funky. The word “funk" first appeared in the early seventeenth ...
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music
by Eric Gudas
Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life In Music Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards403 pagesISBN: #9781524749071Alfred A. Knopf 2023 In the early 1970s, Henry Threadgill--composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, inventor of the hubkaphone, Vietnam veteran, and all-around Proteus (in Ovid, the god “who always changes") of Black music and ...
