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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

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The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagan 560 Pages ISBN: # 1101874376 Knopf 2017 If Jann Wenner, the subject of Sticky Fingers, wasn't such a devoted fan of the Rolling Stones (after whom he at least partially named the magazine he founded), Joe ...

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Claude Ranger: Canadian Jazz Legend

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Claude Ranger: Canadian Jazz Legend Mark Miller 279 pages ISBN: 978-1-77302-559-9 Tellwell Talent 2017 The ultimate impact of a man's life is not always synonymous with the things he leaves behind. Such is the tacit premise of Mark Miller's exceptional biography of Canadian jazz drummer, composer and bandleader ...

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Mats Gustafsson: Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Vol. 1

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Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Vol. 1 Mats Gustafsson 120 pagine Marhaug Forlag 2017 Chi ha avuto occasione di incrociare Mats Gustafsson nelle ore che precedono un suo concerto sa bene che, oltre al doveroso soundcheck, nell'agenda del sassofonista svedese non manca mai una capatina nei negozi di vinili usati della ...

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Sconfini. Vent'anni di Jazz&Wine of Peace

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Sconfini. Vent'anni di Jazz&Wine of Peace Flavio Massarutto, Luca Alfonso D'Agostino, Massimiliano Gosparini, Roberto Duse Controtempo2017 L'idea originaria era in realtà “solo" (se così si può dire) quella di un libro fotografico che documentasse i vent'anni di un festival importante e particolare qual è il Jazz & Wine of Peace ...

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Softly, With Feeling

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Softly with Feeling. Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music Edward Berger 378 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4399-1127-3 Temple University Press 2014 It's a long way from Darby Colwyn PA to Manhattan NY in more ways than one. There's an old Fels Naptha plant that has always seemed ...

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Le avventure di un jazzista-filosofo

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Le avventure di un jazzista-filosofo Arrigo Cappelletti 191 Pagine ISBN: 978-88-6231-907-2 Arcana Jazz 2016 Laureato in filosofia e per alcuni anni insegnante della materia nei licei, il pianista Arrigo Cappelletti è anche un'ottima penna, come aveva avuto modo di mostrare in varie sue pubblicazioni, tra le quali spicca ...

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Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz

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Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In And Out Of Jazz Fred Hersch 307 Pages ISBN: #9781101904343 Crown Archetype Press 2017 Disclaimer #1: Like the author, I harbor a blood pathogen (he HIV, me Leukemia) that is intent on killing me. Disclaimer #2: Being of similar ...

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Raphael Confiant: Madame St-Clair

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Madame St-Clair, la regina di Harlem Raphaël Confiant 240 pagine ISBN: # 978-8862225663 Stampa Alternativa 2017 Pur non eguagliando i capolavori del genere, “Madame St-Clair" è un esito letterario ben fecondo dell'afrocentrismo contemporaneo. Ne è autore lo scrittore martinicano RaRaphaël Confiant, cantore dell'identità creola-antillana in stretto rapporto con il ...

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Conversations with Charlie Haden

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Conversations with Charlie Haden Josef Woodard & Charlie Haden 235 Pagine con 24 foto in bianco e nero ISBN: #978-1-935247-15-9 Silman-James Press 2017 Pubblicato negli Stati Uniti all'inizio di quest'anno, Conversations with Charlie Haden raccoglie 17 interviste del critico Josef Woodard al grande contrabbassista scomparso; alcune sono state ...

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Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene

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Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene Thomas H. Greenland 245 pages ISBN: #978025081606 University of Illinois Press 2016 This week I plan on attending three live jazz performances. I'm fortunate to reside in an area that affords the opportunity to check out a variety of jazz musicians who I ...


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