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Jade Visions: The Life And Music Of Scott LaFaro

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Jade Visions: The Life And Music Of Scott LaFaro Helene LaFaro-Fernandez Hardcover; 322 pages ISBN: 1-57441-273-4 University of North Texas Press 2009 At the outset, I have to own up to bassist Scott LaFaro being a personal hero. Growing up in Geneva, NY, ...

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The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off The Paper

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The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off The Paper Graham Collier Hardcover; 314 pages ISBN: 978 09557888 0 2 Northway Books 2009 Bassist, composer and bandleader Graham Collier's preoccupation with form is itself, in a very literal sense, a central concern of this book: with the passage of time, Collier's ...

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Paolo Fresu: Musica Dentro

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Musica Dentro di Paolo Fresu Feltrinelli Serie Bianca 2009 Euro 14 “Musica Dentro" non delude (nonostante la scelta non proprio felice di un titolo che ricorda un disco dei Pooh). I contenuti, che talora ricalcando quanto scritto in “Paolo Fresu Talkabout" di Luigi Onori, passano dall'infanzia a Berchidda alle tournée internazionali e ci offorno l'autoritratto di ...

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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D.G. Kelley Free Press ISBN: 0684831902 2009 Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a meticulously documented, yet easy-to-read chronicle of the roller coaster life of pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. It took Robin Kelley, ...

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Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary

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Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary Stephen Calt Paperback; 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-007660-2 Hardback: 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-03347-6 University of Illinois Press 2009 Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary and the ...

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The Book Is on the Table

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The Book Is On The Table Fotografie di Pietro Bandini Parma Jazz Frontiere Da molti anni Pietro Bandini accompagna il mondo del jazz con il suo sguardo attento, sensibile, ironico. In questo libro troviamo le immagini che il fotografo ha raccolto lungo dodici edizioni del festival Parma Jazz Frontiere (dal 1996 al 2007). Sono immagini in ...

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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne James Gavin Hardcover; 608 pages ISBN: 0743271432 Simon and Schuster 2009...it just keeps rainin' all the time... If James Gavin's biography of trumpeter Chet Baker, Deep In A Dream (Knopf, 2002), was a study of the slow ...

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Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes

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Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes Dan Ouellette 435 pagesISBN: 978-0-615-26526-1 ArtistShare 2008 The biography of bassist Ron Carter possesses everything one could desire: an introduction by noted jazz writer Nat Hentoff, a judicious discography, copious photographs, and a stream of well-researched facts and anecdotes about Carter and ...

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La notte che si bruciò il jazz

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La notte che bruciò il Jazz di Michele Minisci Questo bel libro di quasi duecento pagine racconta la storia di uno dei pochi club italiani dedicati alla musica jazz (ma non solo) che ha sfondato la soglia dei venticinque anni di attività: il Naima di Forlì, nel centro della Romagna divertente e divertita. Il libro si ...

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Mario Gamba: Gli ultraterrestri. Musiche della rivoluzione globale.

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Gli ultraterrestri. Musiche della rivoluzione globale. di Mario Gamba Edizioni Cronopio ISBN 978-8-89446-37-9, 18,50 euro Un libro così originale lo poteva scrivere solo un intellettuale di vaglia come Mario Gamba, giornalista del Manifesto e TG 3. Dopo “Free Jazz" di Carles/Comolli del '71, ecco finalmente un saggio di cultura musicale, sociologica e storica, in cui le ...


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