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Hull, Hutchison, Strasser: The Music Business and Recording Industry
by Howard Mitchell Wade
The Music Business and Recording IndustryGeoffrey P. Hull, Thomas Hutchison, Richard Strasser384 pagesISBN-10: 0415875609Routledge2010Geoffrey P. Hull, Thomas Hutchison, and Richard Strasser wrote The Music Business and Recording Industry as “a comprehensive, introductory textbook focused on the three income streams in the music industry." The ...
Sibylle Zerr: Picture Infinity - Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra
by Ian Patterson
Picture Infinity: Marshall Allen & The Sun Ra Arkestra Sibylle Zerr 152 pages, paperback ISBN: 978-3-00-035497-7 Self Published 2011Half a dozen books covering the life, times and music of enigmatic big band leader Sun Ra have appeared since his death in 1993, aged 79. Detailed biography, collections of interviews, ...
RJ Smith: The One - The Life and Music of James Brown
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown RJ SmithHardcover, 464 pagesISBN: 978-1592406579Gotham Books2012James Brown (1933-2006): singer, bandleader, composer, impresario, self-made man-- Amiri Baraka called him “our number one black poet." Brown describes himself, in the pages of RJ Smith's biography, as “75 ...
Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist
by John Kelman
What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist Dave Liebman In Conversation with Lewis Porter 386 Pages ISBN: 978-0810882034 Scarecrow Press 2012 In life, there's them that are aware and them's that ain't. Them's that are aware are not necessarily better than them's that ain't; but in being ...
Ted Gioia: The History of Jazz (Second Edition)
by C. Michael Bailey
The History of Jazz (Second Edition)Ted GioiaHardcover; 452 pagesISBN: 0195399706Oxford University Press2011 For the past 25 years, author and teacher Ted Gioia has provided the most succinct and contemporary histories of America's native musics: blues and jazz. He has done this through his ...
Gregg Allman: My Cross to Bear
by Doug Collette
My Cross to BearGregg Allman w/ Alan LightHardback; 380 pagesISBN 978-0062112033William Morrow2012 The most vibrant interludes in guitarist and singer Gregg Allman's autobiography are those where he talks about songwriting. His accounts of exchanging and refining ideas, by himself or collaboratively, carries a ...
Stefano Zenni: Storia del Jazz. Una prospettiva globale
by AAJ Italy Staff
Stefano Zenni Storia del Jazz. Una prospettiva globale Stampa Alternativa, 608 pagine, 25 euro Dopo anni di “egemonia" del classico manuale di Polillo, i lettori italiani si ritrovano nel giro di pochi mesi con due storie del jazz nuove di zecca sugli scaffali delle librerie. Di quella di Shipton tradotta da Einaudi abbiamo già parlato e ...
David Schiff: The Ellington Century
by Lewis J Whittington
The Ellington CenturyDavid SchiffHardcover; 336 pagesISBN: 978-0-520-24587-7University of California Press2012In the pantheon of jazz giants, bandleader and pianist Duke Ellington holds an undisputed top spot, but, David Schiff believes, Ellington has never been given the recognition he also deserves as a composer. Schiff redresses ...
Robin D.G. Kelley: Thelonious Monk. Storia di un genio americano
by AAJ Italy Staff
Robin D.G. Kelley Thelonious Monk. Storia di un genio americano traduzione di Marco Bertoli Edizioni Minimum Fax Sono diversi i modi in cui una vita può essere raccontata. A volte, essa risulta da una sorta di narrazione collettiva, serbata in altre vite e perciò espressa “con altra voce". Perciò il lavoro del biografo non è soltanto ...
The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 (Keith Waters - Oxford University Press)
by AAJ Italy Staff
The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 di Keith Waters Oxford University Press Le trecento pagine di questo volume del professore Keith Waters (insegna Teoria della Musica e Composizione alla Università del Colorado) ci consentono di ripercorrere l'intera opera in studio di uno dei gruppi più noti e più interessanti di tutta la storia ...
