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Stefano Zenni: Che razza di musica

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Che razza di musica. Jazz, blues, soul e le trappole del colore di Stefano Zenni EDT. Pagine 183 Euro 11,50. Il jazz è musica di incontro e contaminazione continua, fisiologica e addirittura irrinunciabile: questo è l'assunto da cui partire nell'approssimarsi a quest'ultima fatica di Stefano Zenni, il cui titolo e ...

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50 Years at the Village Vanguard: Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

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50 Years at the Village Vanguard: Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Dave Lisik and Eric Allen 316 Pages ISBN: #9780692808580 SkyDeck 2017 During the heydays of the big bands, people swooned and jitterbugged to the swinging sounds of these large ensembles. Names like Count Basie, ...

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Nothing but Love in God's Water by Robert Darden

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Nothing but Love in God's Water--Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Robert Darden 224 Pages ISBN: # 978-0271050843 Penn State Press 2014 Critic Ed Ward's The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1965 (Flatiron Books, 2016) is a history ...

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Bill Dahl's The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music’s Golden Age

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The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age Bill Dahl 224 Pages ISBN: # 978-02263966992 University Of Chicago Press 2016 A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring... There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,

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Francesco Spampinato e Julius Wiedemann: Art Record Covers

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Art Record Covers Francesco Spampinato e Julius Wiedemann 448 pagine Taschen 2017 Quasi quattro chili di peso per un formato che è più o meno quello degli LP. Sfogliando per la prima volta questo libro monumentale si rimane affascinati e sovrastati dalle immagini, talvolta a tutta pagina, ...

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Reuel Golden, Barney Hoskyns: 75 Years of Capitol Records

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75 Years of Capitol Records Reuel Golden, Barney Hoskyns 492 Pages Taschen 2017 Il 15 novembre 2016, il Los Angeles City Council ha proclamato il “Capitol Records Day," una celebrazione del 75mo anno di vita della casa discografica, fondata a Los Angeles il 7 febbraio 1942. Tra le varie iniziative ...

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The Blues: Why It Still Hurts So Good

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The Blues: Why It Still Hurts So Good Marie Trout 360 Pages ISBN: #099799830X Yakkabiz Publishers 2017 Although the therapeutic value of music has not been wholly certified in scientific terms, it is nevertheless an accepted premise in our culture, one that Marie Trout explores with as much ...

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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1965

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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1965 Ed Ward 416 Pages ISBN: # 978-1250071163 Flatiron Books2016 Ed Ward has been the Rock & Roll Historian on NPR's Fresh Air (WHYY, Philadelphia—Terry Gross) for thirty years. He is the author of Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History ...

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Il Grande Incantatore

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“Il Grande Incantatore" A cura di Giorgio Rimondi 159 pagine ISBN: 978-88-98922-26-0 Agenzia X 2016 Ishmael Reed è uno dei massimi scrittori e poeti afroamericani, noto anche in Italia per il fondamentale “Mumbo Jumbo" e autore prolifico con all'attivo nove romanzi, cinque raccolte di poesie, vari testi teatrali e ...

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Transcendent Trombone - Jazz Survivor: The Rick Stepton Story

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Transcendent Trombone Frank McGowan Self Published 2017 “Jazz Luck"--a phrase I pull out of the hat every so often that aptly describes those oddball and, in some cases, unfortunate events which practitioners of the art encounter in the business. It's a more apropos term that the commonly-used “Stuff Happens," because ...


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