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Brad Mehldau: Formation: Building A Personal Canon, Part One
by Ian Patterson
Formation: Building A Personal Canon, Part One Brad Mehldau 312 Pages ISBN: 9781800503137 Equinox Publishing 2023 In the considerable wake of Keith Jarrett, it is hard to think of another pianist as influential or as widely imitated as Brad Mehldau. Throughout a career that began in the ...
The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician's Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White
by Richard J Salvucci
The Rhythm of Unity Mike and Dorothy Longo 237 Pages ISBN: 978-1956470741 Redwood 2023 Mike Longo was a distinguished pianist in spite of himself. He was a musicians' musician. He had little interest in celebrity. However much he needed to make a living, Mike spurned opportunities, like becoming Tony ...
Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story
by Andrew Hunter
Eberhard Weber: A German Jazz Story Eberhard Weber translated by Heidi Kirk 182 Pages ISBN: 978 1 80050 082 2 Equinox Publishing Ltd 2021 There are many musicians whose playing we can recognise in an instant; something about their phrasing, note choice and tone combine to give an unmistakable ...
Philadelphia Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
Philadelphia Jazz Suzanne Cloud and Diane Turner 127 pages ISBN 978-1-4671-0784-6 Images of America Arcadia Publishing 2022 Philadelphia longs to be known as a jazz town, a city distinguished by its major contribution to the jazz legacy. There is a good ...
Prima di Joni Mitchell e Carole King c'era Connie Converse
by Angelo Leonardi
To Anyone Who Ever Asks--The Life Music and Mistery of Connie Converse Howard Fishman 576 pagine ISBN: # 9780593187346 Dutton 2023 La storia del jazz è piena giovani innovatori scomparsi tragicamente. Meteore che hanno lasciato un segno indelebile prima di uscire di scena. Molti sono morti in giovane età ...
Solid. Life and Death of a Jazz Genius: Scott LaFaro
by Richard J Salvucci
Solid. Life and Death of a Jazz Genius: Scott LaFaro Vincenzo Staiano 180 Pages ISBN: 9781470 LuLu2023 It may be an exaggeration to claim there was double bass before Scott LaFaro, and double bass after Scott LaFaro. A modern jazz bassist may say, well, not exactly. Yet reading ...
L'autobiografia di Henry Threadgill in primo piano
by Angelo Leonardi
Easily Slip into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 402 pagine ISBN: # 9781524749071 Knopf 2023 D'imminente pubblicazione, l'autobiografia di Henry Threadgill è destinata a lasciare il segno entro il mondo del jazz, nella cultura statunitense e nella musica contemporanea in generale. È un testo ...
ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper
by Doug Collette
ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and Ink on Paper 280 Pages ISBN: # 979-8-21809624-3 Higher Ground 2023 In honor of Higher Ground's 25th anniversary, the South Burlington Vermont music venue has collaborated in the curation of ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sounds, Art and ...
Behind The Doors - The Story Of A Legendary Band's Road Manager
by Doug Collette
Behind The Doors -The Story Of A Legendary Band's Road Manager Vince Treanor 522 Pages Aldus Boek Compagnie 2022 Vince Treanor's Behind The Doors is unlike any other book to date devoted to the iconic Sixties band. Granted, the author indulges in his share of hyperbole (usually devoted to the ...
Neil Ardley & Ian Carr: Authoritative Studies Of Paradigm Shifting British Musicians
by Chris May
Not-for-profit label Jazz In Britain is best known for carefully curated releases of historically important recordings made by British musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, most of them previously unavailable and sourced either from the musicians' own tape archives or those of BBC Radio. But from time to time, the label also publishes books.
