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Whisper Not: The Autobiography Of Benny Golson
by Ian Patterson
Whisper Not Benny Golson and Jim Merod 335 Pages ISBN: 9781439913338 Temple University Press 2016 Philadelphia has always been a cradle for outstanding jazz talent, though when it comes to durability surely none can match Benny Golson, who began playing seventy years ago. At 87, Golson--an NEA Jazz ...
Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall
by Nenad Georgievski
Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall Jim Marshall 336 Pages ISBN: 978-1-909526-32-7 Reel Art Press 2016 The act of taking photographs of any kind is usually associated with the popular adage of “being at the right place at the right time." But in truth, you have to be the right person ...
Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of An American Guitar Hero
by Doug Collette
Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of An American Guitar Hero Ed Ward 224 Pages ISBN: # 1613733283 Chicago Review Press 2016 Whether he meant to or not, in writing Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero, Ed Ward mirrors his subject's style of guitar-playing. ...
50 Summers of Music: Montreux Jazz Festival
by Ian Patterson
50 Summers of Music: Montreux Jazz Festival Arnaud Robert 398 Pages ISBN: 978-2-84597-558-3 Montreux Jazz Festival/Editions Textuel 2016 It's neither the oldest nor the largest, but Montreux Jazz Festival is, arguably, the most famous music festival in the word. It's a notable and perhaps unlikely badge of honor for ...
Alessandro Bertinetto - Il pensiero dei suoni
by Neri Pollastri
Il pensiero dei suoni Alessandro Bertinetto 170 pagine ISBN: 978-88-6159-658-0 Bruno Mondadori 2012 La filosofia si occupa essenzialmente di ridefinire il significato delle parole, aggiornandolo alla luce della crescita della conoscenza e della diversificazione delle attività umane. E ciò è quanto fa anche la filosofia della musica, sebbene in ...
Matthew Crampton: Human Cargo
by Duncan Heining
Human Cargo -Stories and Songs of Emigration, Slavery and Transportation Matthew Crampton 164 Pages ISBN: 978-0-9561361-2-1 Muddler Books 2016 The best books are those that tell their story with passion and, when needed, a sense of anger and disgust at human venality and corruption. But when a book tells ...
Kickback City: Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
Kickback City Ian Rankin/Tim Truman/Rory Gallagher 40 Pages ISBN: B019GLERXO Eagle Rock 2016 Notwithstanding titles such as “Deluxe Edition" of Irish Tour '74 (Legacy Recordings, 2014)or the almost equally splendid archiving that is Notes From San Francisco (Eagle Rock, 2011), Kickback City Deluxe Edition is the most distinctive entry ...
Godfather of the Music Business: Morris Levy by Richard Carlin
by C. Michael Bailey
Godfather of the Music Business: Morris Levy Richard Carlin 294 Pages ISBN: # 978-1496805706 University Press of Mississippi 2016 Well, I don't suppose it is an understatement to say that club owner and mid-20th Century music entrepreneur Morris Levi was a Son-of-a-bitch. That has been very ...
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
by C. Michael Bailey
“As you develop your listening skills, [answer this question]: Are the musicians playing the notes with precision, almost as if they are reading music from some Platonic ideal score, or are they handling them roughly, torturing them to make them speak the truth?" I see [Billie Holiday] more as a diagnostician of the soul, ...
Il Jazz-Film
by Angelo Leonardi
Il Jazz-Film Guido Michelone 349 Pages ISBN: 978-8862318747 Arcana Jazz 2016 Dopo quasi vent'anni, Guido Michelone ripubblica e amplia il suo fondamentale manuale sui rapporti tra cinema e musica afro-americana, l'unico in lingua italiana di tale spessore e completezza. Lo studio analizza quelle opere in cui le tematiche musicali ...
