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James Last: My Autobiography
by Florence Wetzel
My Autobiography James Last Hardcover; 321 pages ISBN: 978-1-84454-434-9 Metro Publishing 2007 The German bandleader James Last, still very much with us in 2009, was one of the most successful musicians of the twentieth century. In a career spanning over 60 years, Last has ...
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music
by Florence Wetzel
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor L. Wooten Paperback; 288 pages ISBN: 9789022993538 Berkley Books 2008 Bassist Victor Wooten's book The Music Lesson is a tour de force, a bold and courageous exploration of how to shift one's consciousness ...
Jazz Lives: Till We Shall Meet and Never Part
by Todd S. Jenkins
Jazz Lives: Till We Shall Meet and Never Part Jaap van de Klomp and Scott Yanow Hardcover; 223 pages ISBN: 9789022993538 VIP Books 2008 Now and then a book comes along that defies all expectations. Jazz Lives, a collaboration between Dutch photographer Jaap van ...
Becoming Billie Holiday
by Larry Reni Thomas
Becoming Billie Holiday Carole Boston Weatherford Hardcover; 120 pages ISBN: 159078507X Wordsong Press 2008 Award-winning poet and professor Carole Boston Weatherford's latest, excellent book, Becoming Billie Holiday--a fictional verse memoir, as Weatherford describes it--reaches out and grabs the reader's attention as if Holiday herself ...
Gumbo Nation: The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver To Congo Square
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Gumbo Nation: The World That Made New Orleans - From Spanish Silver To Congo Square Ned Sublette Hardcover; 368 pages ISBN: 1556527306 Chicago Review Press 2008 It is an African-American Atlantis, New Orleans: a crescent-shaped city six-feet under water at the mouth of the ...
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
by Tom Greenland
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music Ben Ratliff Hardcover; 256 pages ISBN: 0805081461 Times Books 2008 Jazz critic Ben Ratliff's new book, following closely on the heels of his well-received expose of the sound and influence of saxophonist John Coltrane, is a compilation of annotated interviews ...
Fausto Amodei: canzoni di satira e di rivolta
by AAJ Italy Staff
Fausto Amodei: canzoni di satira e di rivolta di Margherita Zorzi Editrice Zona pag. 220 Dal punto di vista formale, le canzoni militanti di Fausto Amodei non appartengono certo alla tradizione del jazz o del blues ma se ampliamo, appena un po,' la prospettiva troviamo tanti elementi di convergenza con la storia sociale da cui nasce ...
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography
by John Kelman
The Autobiography Bill Bruford Trade Paperback; 352 pages ISBN: 978-1-906002-23-7 Jawbone Press 2009 “Veteran drummer Bill Bruford Retires From Public Performance“ the AAJ news item announced on January 26, 2009. At progressive rock boards like Progressive Ears it was enough to cause considerable consternation amongst fans who date back ...
The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide
by Suzanne Lorge
The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide Scott Yanow Paperback; 264 pages ISBN: 0879308257 Backbeat Books 2008 Gosh, there are a heck of a lot of jazz singers out there. More than 700 at least, according to Scott Yanow, who takes on the daunting task ...
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
by Martin Gladu
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age Steve Knopper Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 1416552154 Free Press 2009 Like the print industry before it, the music business underwent profound changes during the 1990s and 2000s. During the early ...
