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Eleonora Bagarotti: 4 Ever – John Paul George Ringo
by Alberto Bazzurro
4 Ever--John Paul George Ringo Eleonora Bagarotti 313 Pagine Vololibero L'idea era decisamente golosa, invitante: seguire il percorso dei quattro Beatles anche al di là (quantitativamente anche molto al di là) della vita del gruppo. Le cose, lungo le trecento pagine che compongono il libro, non vanno poi sempre secondo le ...
The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles
by Karl Ackermann
The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles Bob Gluck 256 Pages ISBN: #022618076X University of Chicago Press 2016 In the history of jazz, no one has been written about more than Miles Davis. No one has been more debated, reviled and revered than the difficult genius who ...
The Real Dixieland Book / Tunes Of The Twenties
by Budd Kopman
The Real Dixieland Book Robert Rawlins 378 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4234-7694-8 Hal Leonard 2015 Saxophonist Robert Rawlins, who is also Professor of Music Theory at Rowan University (New Jersey) has done jazz a great service by producing The Real Dixieland Book and Tunes Of The Twenties. While they obviously ...
No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
by Doug Collette
No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead Peter Richardson 384 Pages ISBN: # 1250010624 St. Martin's Press 2015 The declarative tone Peter Richardson adopts and maintains throughout No Simple Highway renders his depiction of the evolution of the Grateful Dead seem like nothing less than destiny. ...
The Band Photographs 1968-1969
by Doug Collette
The Band Photographs 1968-1969 Elliott Landy 160 Pages ISBN: # 149502251X Backbeat Books 2015 As much as the Band disavowed imagemaking, preferring to focus as strictly as possible on their music when they emerged from the shadows Bob Dylan's backing ensemble, when embarked upon their own career, they definitely ...
Freedom of Expression: Interviews with Women in Jazz by Chris Becker
by C. Michael Bailey
Freedom of Expression: Interviews with Women in Jazz Chris Becker 332 Pages ISBN: # 978-0692543603 Beckeresque 2015 Houstonian writer and composer Chris Becker had a labor of love in mind when he set out to assemble his Freedom of Expression: Interviews with Women in Jazz. What may have begun ...
What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
by Nenad Georgievski
What Happened, Miss Simone? Alan Light 320 Pages ISBN: 1101904879 Atria 2016 It was singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron who said that Nina Simone was black way before it was fashionable to be black. A controversial and indisputable music icon and celebrity, her unique blend of jazz, pop and ...
Sabina Meyer: Dare voce all'invisibile
by Angelo Leonardi
Dare voce all'invisibile -Indagine sull'ineffabile in musica Sabina Meyer 172 Pages Scienze e Lettere Questo studio ci ricorda uno dei dialoghi di Platone, il Cratilo. In quel testo Socrate si domanda se il nome costituisca un attributo naturale delle cose o se sia imposto ad esse arbitrariamente dagli uomini. La ...
Jazz Loft
by Angelo Leonardi
Jazz Loft Massimiliano Gosparini -Flavio Massarutto 46 Pagine Edizioni Controtempo 2015 Jazz Loft non è solo un bel fumetto noir ambientato nella New York jazzistica degli anni settanta ma un lavoro originale che porta avanti la relazione tra jazz e bande dessinée. La sceneggiatura è di Flavio Massarutto, i ...
La filosofia di Han Bennink
by Alberto Bazzurro
La filosofia di Han Bennink (L'improvvisazione secondo un batterista) Raul Catalano 104 Pagine Mimesis La pubblicistica in volume relativa ad Han Bennink è alquanto sparuta, ancor più in lingua italiana, per cui--diciamolo francamente--a voler bucare questa cortina di silenzio si poteva fare senz'altro di più. Il lavoro di Catalano, batterista-filosofo ...
