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Blues Speak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual

by Chris May
March 25, 2010

Blues Speak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr. (editor) 192 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-03440-4 cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-07692-3 paper University of Illinois Press 2010 Launched at the 1989 Chicago Blues Festival, Original Chicago Blues Annual was ...

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Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM

by John Kelman
March 21, 2010

Windfall Light: The Visual Language of ECM Edited by Lars Müller Softcover; 448 pages ISBN: 978-3-03778-157-9 Lars Müller Publishers 2010 Long out-of-print, Sleeves of Desire: A Cover Story (Lars Müller Publishers, 1996) has become something of a holy grail for fans of the German ...

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Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz

by Wade Luquet
March 14, 2010

Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz Thomas L. Morgan Hardback: 216 pages ISBN:1596524057 Turner Publishing 2009 Covering over 100 years, Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz utilizes the extensive jazz photography collection of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection to produce a beautiful book ...

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Davide Ielmini: Giorgio Gaslini - L'uomo, l'interprete, il compositore. La musica raccontata da una voce "fuori dal coro"

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 11, 2010

Giorgio Gaslini - L'uomo, l'interprete, il compositore. La musica raccontata da una voce “fuori dal coro" di Davide Ielmini Zecchini Editore, Varese, 2009, 176 pp. Nel panorama del jazz italiano Giorgio Gaslini è probabilmente l'unico esponente in grado di sostenere un'intervista come quella a cui lo ha sottoposto Davide Ielmini: vale a dire a 360 gradi, ...

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Time and Anthony Braxton

by Kurt Gottschalk
February 27, 2010

Time and Anthony Braxton Stuart Broomer Softcover; 146 pages ISBN: 1551281449 Mercury Press 2009 The Anthony Braxton aesthetic is a lot to comprehend--the man has written pieces to be performed by orchestras on different planets, so it's understandable if the vision is a little daunting. And ...

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But Beautiful

by David Rickert
February 10, 2010

But Beautiful Geoff Dyer Softcover; 240 pages ISBN 9780312429478 Picador 2009 (1991) There is nothing beautiful about the stories in Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful. Dyer has fashioned portraits of several key jazz players, all of whose stories show how pursuing the jazz muse can isolate and ...

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Subway Moon

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 10, 2010

Subway Moon Roy Nathanson Soft cover; 134 pages ISBN 978-3-00-025376-8 Buddy's Knife 2009 Poetry, like music, is about movement. Both art forms move from one note, or word, to another, trying to catch the essence of the moment. Saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson has long worked ...

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Who Owns Music?

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 9, 2010

Who Owns Music? William Parker Soft cover; 140 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020141-7 Buddy's Knife 2007 Spirituality runs deep in the music and thinking of bassist William Parker. Those who have looked at the sleeves of his albums will have noticed that he not only expresses his philosophy ...

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Le arti del suono

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 8, 2010

Le arti del suono, n. 1, 2009, “Luoghi del Novecento" Editoriale di Agostino di Scipio, con contributi di Wolfgang Hagen, Leonardo Zaccone, Massimo Scamarcio, Volker Straebel e John Palmer. Cosenza: Edizioni Orizzonti Meridionali, 2009, 80 p., 12 euro. Nonostante (o forse proprio perché si tratta di) un argomento al confine con il jazz, l'uscita di questa ...

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The King and Dr. Nick: What Really Happened to Elvis and Me

by C. Michael Bailey
February 8, 2010

The King and Dr. Nick: What Really Happened to Elvis and Me George Nichopoulos / Rose Clayton Phillips Hardcover; 256 pages ISBN 1595551719 Thomas Nelson 2010 Dr. Conrad Murray, singer Michael Jackson's personal physician, is (in February 2010) under scrutiny for his part in ...