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In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir

by Ken Dryden
February 6, 2010

In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir Brian Torff Softcover; 236 pages ISBN: 1440112851 iUniverse 2009 Brian Torff is a widely experienced jazz bassist who has recorded and played with numerous greats, including violinist Stephane Grappelli, clarinetist Benny Goodman, singers Frank Sinatra and Mel Torme, and ...

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Reaching Into The Unknown 1964-2009

by A. Henkin
January 23, 2010

Reaching Into The Unknown 1964-2009 Jacques Bisceglia/Steve Dalachinsky softcover; 440 pages ISBN: n/a Rogue Art 2009 Jazz and modern poetry seem ideally suited, in temperament if not exactly aesthetic. Though it is designed to mimic the cadences of a freeform improvisation, jazz poetry is still a ...

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Signs Along The Road

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 19, 2010

Signs Along The Road Henry Grimes Soft cover; 128 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-020142-4 Buddy's Knife 2007 Bassist Henry Grimes was one of the leading lights on the free jazz scene in the 1960s, playing with many of the music's most famous names, including pianist Cecil ...

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Le x-roads dell’espressività afroamericana e Amiri Baraka: l’immaginario del jazz tra cinema, letteratura e poesia

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 11, 2010

Altre x-roads - Ritratto dell'artista in nero di Franco Minganti Bacchilega Editore, 2009, 176 pp., 15 euro Amiri Baraka - Ritratto dell'artista in nero a cura di Franco Minganti e Giorgio Rimondi Bacchilega Editore, 2007, 304 pp., 20 euro Alle banalità, alle tante semplificazioni - e alle inveterate omissioni - che da sempre accompagnano la maggior ...

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Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 2, 2010

Herbie Nichols: A Jazzist's Life Mark Miller Soft cover; 224 pages ISBN: 978-1-55128-146-0 The Mercury Press 2009 Although he is considerably better known and respected today than he was in his lifetime, pianist Herbie Nichols and his spectacularly original music remains relatively obscure. This is one ...

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Jazz

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
December 21, 2009

Jazz Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeaux Hardcover; 704 pages ISBN: 978-0-393-06861-0 W.W.Norton 2009 The only thing harder than playing jazz is writing about it. It is a music that is specific, yet hard to define. It is easy to understand, yet at times hard to comprehend, sometimes ...

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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

by Russ Musto
December 19, 2009

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D.G. Kelley Free Press ISBN: 0684831902 2009 This is an authoritative tome that pulls aside, without completely lifting, the shroud of mystery that has long surrounded one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of jazz. Exhaustively ...

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Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection

by Larry Taylor
December 15, 2009

Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection Hardcover; 128 pages ASIN: B002NACXY6 Concord Editions 2009 Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection has been published in honor of the seminal jazz label's 60th anniversary. The handsome coffee table-sized book would make the perfect gift for many jazz fans--both ...

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Il Blues

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 10, 2009

Il Blues di Vincenzo Martorella Einaudi Questo bel libro appena pubblicato da Einaudi nella collana Mappe racchiude una delle più esaustive trattazioni delle origini e del consolidamento del blues come forma musicale che ci è capitato di leggere. L'autore è Vincenzo Martorella, il cui stile è apprezzabile per chiarezza di esposizione e scorrevolezza. Le sue argomentazioni ...

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Double Vision - Fotografie e scritture sul Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 3, 2009

Double Vision - Fotografie e scritture sul Jazz Thesis Realizzato in occasione della mostra “Phocus sul Jazz - Fotografie dagli anni '60 ad oggi," tenutasi a Pordenone nel dicembre del 2008 all'interno di un cartellone più ampio ("Allora è Jazz," a cura dell'associazione culturale Thesis e del Teatro Comunale G. Verdi), questo piccolo ma prezioso libro ...