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Parlami di musica - Conversazioni con 26 protagonisti della scena internazionale

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Alberto Bazzurro Parlami di Musica Editrice Zona pag. 217 Euro 18,00 “L'idea di raccogliere, con un minimo di organicità, il meglio delle tante interviste realizzate da che mi occupo di musica mi ronzava in testa da tempo. (...) Poi nel 2007 sono arrivati i 25 anni di giornalismo: è il momento, mi son detto". Così l'autore ...

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Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

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Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington Hardcover; 304 pages ISBN: 0312327854 Thomas Dunne Books 2008 Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration ...

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DelightfuLee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

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DelightfuLee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan Jeffrey McMillan Cloth/Paper; 272 pages ISBN: 978-0-472-11502-0/978-0-472-03281-5 University of Michigan Press 2008 This is an excellent, well-written, abundantly researched, scholarly book on the life and music of one of the great, unheralded heroes of jazz--the trumpeter ...

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Il Secolo del Jazz

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Il Secolo del Jazz di Filippo Bianchi Bacchilega editore 248 pagine. Com'è noto Filippo Bianchi è l'attuale direttore di “Musica Jazz", il prestigioso mensile fondato nel 1945 da Gian Carlo Testoni e poi guidato da Arrigo Polillo, Pino Candini e Claudio Sessa. In precedenza, aveva lavorato a lungo come produttore e direttore artistico e come giornalista ...

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Il suono in figure

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Il suono in figure - Pensare con la musica di Giorgio Rimondi 2008 Scuola di cultura contemporanea Eminente studioso dei rapporti tra jazz e letteratura, Giorgio Rimondi allarga qui il suo campo d’indagine privilegiato per integrarlo con un approccio metodologico multidisciplinare. Sulla scorta degli antropologi strutturalisti che analizzano i fenomeni culturali come entità ad “n dimensioni”, ...

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Libri e musica: pagine da regalare e da regalarsi

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L'attenzione dell'editoria italiana verso le differenti musiche rimane sempre alta, anche se in alcuni casi un po' occasionale. Le imminenti feste, pur in clima di forzata austerity e forse ancora di più dovendosi concentrare su omaggi [a se stessi e agli altri] di qualità e di peso, ci offrono l'occasione per segnalare alcuni libri usciti recentemente ...

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Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street

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Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street Patrick Burke Hardcover; 314 pages ISBN: 987-0-22608071-0 University of Chicago Press 2008 The section of Manhattan's 52nd Street between 5th and 7th Avenues, fondly referred to as “The Street," holds iconic status as a ...

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Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page

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Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page Todd Bryant Weeks Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 0415990777 Routledge 2008 Almost any book on trumpeter Hot Lips Page (1908-1954) would, of course, be welcome in the library of jazz scholarship, ...

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Follow Your Heart

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Follow Your Heart Joe Evans Hardcover; 151 pages. ISBN: 978 0 252 03303 2 University of Illinois Press 2008 Saxophonist Joe Evans isn't a musician who immediately springs to mind when discussing the jazz pantheon. He's a player who has slipped through the holes of ...

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Miles, Ornette, Cecil

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Miles, Ornette, Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz Howard Mandel Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN: 0415967147 Routledge 2007 The music and personalities of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor inspired taxis and tropism. Each is endearing, maddening, mercurial, confounding, innovative and timeless. Howard Mandel has written ...


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