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Georges Brassens, il maestro irriverente

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Georges Brassens, il maestro irriverente di Margherita Zorzi Zona (2012) - Pagine 163 - Euro 16,00. Un lavoro veramente capillare, quello svolto attorno alla figura di “Tonton" Georges Brassens (di cui nell'ottobre scorso sono caduti, nel giro di appena una settimana, il novantesimo anniversario della nascita e il trentesimo della morte) dalla veronese Margherita “Margot" Zorzi. ...

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Duncan Heining: George Russell - The Story of an American Composer

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George Russell: The Story of an American Composer Duncan Heining 376 pages, hardback ISBN: 978-0-8108-6997-4 Scarecrow Press 2010 It's been out for a couple years now, but any book about American composer and founder of the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization—if not the most influential musical concepts ever ...

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Mati Klarwein: Mati & the Music

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Mati Klarwein: Mati & the Music Illustrazioni: Mati Klarwein / Testi: Serge Bramly RM Verlag Barcelona Finalmente l'attività pittorica di Mati Klarwein legata alla musica e alle copertine dei dischi in particolare, riceve un doveroso tributo con questo splendido libro di grande formato che in quasi duecento pagine, abbondantemente illustrate a colori, racconta le 52 copertine ...

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Nicola Gaeta: Una preghiera tra due bicchieri di gin. Il jazz italiano si racconta

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Nicola Gaeta Una preghiera tra due bicchieri di gin. Il jazz italiano si racconta Prefazione di F. Bianchi, Introduzione di E. Mansueto Caratterimobili, Bari, 2011, pp. 415 (euro 20,00) Nicola Gaeta ha l'imprudenza, felice, di “dare voce" al jazz italiano ripercorrendone le tappe fondamentali attraverso le parole dei suoi protagonisti, in un circuito di interviste e ...

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Bob Willoughby: Jazz - Body and Soul

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Jazz: Body and SoulBob Willoughby176 pages, hardback, slipcaseISBN: 978 1 901268 58 4Evans Mitchell Books2012To the wider world, Bob Willoughby is the Los Angeles photographer who took a raft of iconic photographs of movie stars such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe ...

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Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano

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Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps surprising conclusions about the subject's contribution to jazz. First, Guaraldi arguably hipped more listeners to this musical form ...

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Funny Valentine - The Story of Chet Baker

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Funny Valentine: The Story of Chet BakerMatthew Ruddick828 pages, softbackISBN: 978-1-907732-71-3Melrose Books2012Grippingly written and meticulously researched, Matthew Ruddick's 828-page opus is the definitive biography of trumpeter and singer Chet Baker. More than that, it is a vivid account of the junkie subculture that ran ...

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Joaquim Paulo and Julius Weidermann: Jazz Covers

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Jazz CoversJoaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann560 pagesISBN: 978-3-8365-2406-3Taschen2012Writers Joaquim Paulo and Julius Wiedemann have assembled a stellar exhibit by way of these oversized Taschen books. The two volumes, packaged in a slipcase, are a beautiful collection of album cover art that document the global ...

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Ted Gioia: The Jazz Standards - A Guide to the Repertoire

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The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the RepertoireTed Gioia544 pagesISBN: 0199937397Oxford University Press2012Author and musician Ted Gioia and, by proxy, his readers, are having a pretty good year. The second edition of his informative The History of Jazz (Oxford University Press, 2011) was recently ...

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Trading Fours. Il jazz e l'organizzazione che apprende

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Trading Fours. Il jazz e l'organizzazione che apprende. Di Michael Gold e Dario Villa. Art for Business Edizioni (2012) - Pagine 51. Gratuito Jazz e organizzazioni di impresa. Universi differenti. Molto distanti. Per certi versi (valori, obiettivi, finalità) incompatibili. L'osservatore attento non può tuttavia non cogliere alcuni elementi di contiguità tra il mondo della musica improvvisata ...


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