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Gil Scott-Heron, The Bluesologist
by AAJ Italy Staff
Antonio Bacciocchi Gil Scott-Heron, The Bluesologist Vololibero Edizioni, 95 pp., 10 euro Uno degli effetti più interessanti del web sull'editoria musicale, è stato notato con acutezza, è certamente quello di permettere di svincolarsi più o meno parzialmente dalla sola funzione informativa [che internet svolge ormai con varietà di fonti e rapida accessibilità] per dare all'analisi prospettive ...
Mark Miller: Way Down That Lonesome Road - Lonnie Johnson in Toronto 1965-1970
by Jerry D'Souza
Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto 1965-1970Mark MillerPaper; 160 pagesISBN 978-1-55128-148-3The Mercury Press2011 The life of singer and guitarist Lonnie Johnson has been chronicled well enough for a blues performer. But leave it to Mark Miller to find an adjunct ...
Kathy Sloane: Keystone Korner - Portrait Of A Jazz Club
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz ClubKathy Sloane 220 pages; audio CDISBN: 978-0-253-35691-8Indiana University Press2012 Photographer Kathy Sloane's Keystone Korner: Portrait Of A Jazz Club is a love letter: a love letter to something more than just a business, to something less than ...
Solo. Joëlle Léandre: Conversations with Franck Médioni
by AAJ Italy Staff
Solo. Joëlle Léandre: Conversations with Franck Médioni di Franck Médioni Kadima colletive Solo. Joëlle Léandre: Conversations with Franck Médioni edito dal Kadima colletive mette insieme una serie di conversazioni del giornalista e musicologo francese Franck Médioni con la contrabbassista Joëlle Léandre per un periodo di circa due anni. “La voce forte e vibrante, il suo imponente ...
Noah Howard: Music In My Soul
by AAJ Italy Staff
Noah Howard Music in My Soul Buddy Knife 148 pagg. - 18 euro Tra le tante figure “minori" del free jazz [e l'aggettivo “minore" non vada inteso come giudizio, ma solo come constatazione oggettiva di popolarità e influenza], quella di Noah Howard, scomparso nel 2010 a nemmeno settant'anni, è ricca di interessanti spunti. Specialista del sax ...
Steve Slagle: Scenes, Songs & Solos - A Composition and Improvisation Workbook for the Creative Musician
by Dan Bilawsky
Scenes, Songs & Solos: A Composition and Improvisation Workbook for the Creative MusicianSteve SlaglePaperback; 139 pagesISBN: 97819361822882Schaffner Press2011 There's no substitute for experience in the world of jazz, and saxophonist Steve Slagle has experience in spades. Slagle has been putting his horn to ...
Brian Harker: Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
by Florence Wetzel
Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven RecordingsBrian HarkerSoftcover; 186 pagesISBN: 9780195388404Oxford University Press2011In 1925, Louis Armstrong was 24 years old. He had just returned to Chicago from New York City at the behest of his second wife, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, who wanted ...
Clark Terry with Gwen Terry: Clark - The Autobiography of Clark Terry
by Florence Wetzel
Clark: The Autobiography of Clark TerryClark Terry with Gwen TerryHardcover; 344 pagesISBN: 9780520268463University of California Press2011There are many sad stories in jazz. Cornetist Joe Oliver lost his embouchure and ended up working as a janitor in a pool hall, singer Billie Holiday was arrested ...
David Kastin: Nica’s Dream - The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness
by Chris May
Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness David Kastin W.W.Norton SBN: 9780393069402 Hardcover, 336 pages 2012 Wonderful woman, wonderful book. David Kastin's assiduously researched biography of Baroness Kathleen Annie Panonnica Rothschild de Koenigswarter (1913-88) brilliantly relates the life of the London-born heiress and last great private ...
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
by Joel Roberts
The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational MemoirBy Mike Zwerin Yale University PressISBN: 0300108060240 pages2005 The Parisian Jazz Chronicles is an irreverent and highly revealing tour through the Parisian and European jazz scenes of the '80-90s in the company of musician/writer/hipster expatriate Mike Zwerin, ...
