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Odwalla

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AA.VV. Odwalla Tipografia Gianotti pag. 74 Euro 20,00 (disponibile sul sito: www.massimobarbiero.com) Vent'anni non sono pochi per una formazione jazz, tanto più se italiana e ancora di più se sostanzialmente atipica nella sua composizione. Eppure tanto è il tempo passato dalla fondazione di Odwalla, nato nel gennaio del 1989 e, pur con varie modifiche d'organico, giunto ...

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John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression

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John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression John Brackett Hardcover; 248 pages ISBN: 0253220254 Indiana University Press 2009 Coming to grips with the prolific and ungainly output of composer/improviser/sonic scavenger John Zorn is a Herculean task. In John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression, the first book-length treatment of this ...

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The House That George Built

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The House That George Built Wilfred Sheed Paperback; 368 pages ISBN: 0812970187 Random House 2008 Why were so many more good songs written during the first half of the twentieth century than the second half? Wilfred Sheed, who believes this to be the case, presents two ...

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The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide

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The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide Scott Yanow Hardcover; 264 pages ISBN: 0879308257 Backbeat Books 2008 The most informative parts of Scott Yanow's exhaustive survey of jazz singers are the introductory sections. Here Yanow outlines the who, what, when, where and why of jazz singing. In ...

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Le età del jazz. I contemporanei.

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Le età del jazz. I contemporanei. di Claudio Sessa Il Saggiatore 252 pagine. Le età del jazz. I contemporanei è un libro davvero originale nella sua ideazione, volta a scandagliare gli aspetti noti e meno noti del jazz contemporaneo. La sostanziano giudizi di merito prima di tutti autorevoli ed anche coraggiosi, in riferimento ai limiti oggettivi ...

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Jazz di John Szwed

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Jazz di John Szwed EDT 2009 ISBN 978-88-6040-365-0, pag. 261, euro 19 Articolato in forma ibrida tra una storia del jazz ed un manuale basilare di estetica, è un testo che non vale le migliori opere pubblicate negli ultimi anni in Italia sull'argomento. Sol per citarne alcune, quelle di Vincenzo Caporaletti, Maurizio Franco, Marcello Piras, Claudio ...

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The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art / Thriving on a Riff: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film

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Representative of what has been coined the “new" jazz studies, these two books are compilations of critical essays edited by Graham Lock and David Murray, which investigate and unpack the role and influence of jazz and blues in African American culture. The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art

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Musica di plastica e Hip-hop Rock: da Isbn due libri da non perdere!

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Casa editrice tra le più originali e interessanti, grazie anche alla inconfondibile veste grafica, la Isbn ha spesso rivolto la propria attenzione al mondo della musica e ha recentemente pubblicato la traduzione italiana di due volumi che ci sembrano non solo particolarmente ben fatti, ma anche significativi per la comprensione della musica popular e dei suoi ...

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Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies

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Big Ears: Listening For Gender in Jazz Studies Edited by Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker Paperback; 472 pages ISBN: 0822343207 Duke University Press 2008 Reading Ingrid Monson's “Fitting the Part," one of 15 fascinating essays in this tome, I wonder if I too ...

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Cafe Society: The wrong place for the Right people

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Cafe Society: The wrong place for the Right people Barney Josephson with Terry Trilling-Josephson Hardback; 376 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-03413-8 University of Illinois Press 2009 This wonderful, uplifting book tells the story of Barney Josephson and Cafe Society, the jazz cabaret Josephson set up in ...


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