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Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop
by David Rickert
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop Jeremy Yudkin Indiana University Press ISBN: 978-0-253-21952-7 184 pages More books have been written about trumpeter Miles Davis than any other jazz musician, leaving authors who want to tackle him with little option other than to present their ...
Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis
by Karen Hogg
Dark Magus: The Jekyll And Hyde Life Of Miles Davis Gregory Davis Hardcover; 224 pages ISBN: 0879308753 Backbeat Books 2006 What separates the latest book on jazz legend Miles Davis is that it is written by Gregory Davis, his oldest son. More of a set of ...
Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music
by David Rickert
Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music Bob Blumenthal Collins ISBN: 0061241792 192 pages 2008 Most jazz fans probably walked by accident into the first disc which got them hooked, then maybe picked up a few more under their own ...
Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley
by Nic Jones
Workout: The Music of Hank Mobley Derek Ansell Hardcover; 162 pages ISBN: 978 09550908-8-2 Northway Books 2008 As a tenor saxophonist, Hank Mobley committed the cardinal sin of not adhering to any established stylistic aesthetic, for all of his association with the hard bop ...
Wayne Shorter. Il filosofo col sax.
by AAJ Italy Staff
Wayne Shorter. Il filosofo col sax di Michelle Mercer 2008 Stampa alternativa “Wayne Shorter. Il filosofo col sax”: è l’edizione italiana di una acclamata biografia, dedicata ad uno degli ultimi geni viventi del jazz. Un testo curiosamente mondato di alcune attrattive della versione originaria, quali l’apparato iconografico e gli spartiti. È una lacuna non trascurabile, cui ...
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop
by C. Michael Bailey
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop Jeremy Yudkin Trade Paperback; 161 pages ISBN: 9780253219527 Indiana University Press 2008 It would not be too far fetched to claim that trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was and remains the single most important figure in ...
I segreti del jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
I segreti del jazz, Stampa Alternativa (con CD-Rom allegato) di Stefano Zenni 2008 Stampa alternativa Per quel che riguarda il jazz, l'evento editoriale dell'anno è costituito dal saggio in esame, scritto dal musicologo Stefano Zenni. Dopo le monografie su Armstrong e Mingus, il suo nuovo libro si impone ancora per la mirabile sintesi tra analisi, divulgazione ...
Horizons Touched - The Music of ECM
by AAJ Italy Staff
Horizons Touched - The Music of ECM di Steve Lake e Paul Griffiths 448 pp. Granta Books Da quasi quarant'anni la ECM unisce e divide al tempo stesso il mondo della musica. In molti la amano per aver dato loro la possibilità di apprezzare il jazz attraverso una chiave più melodica ed europea, altri la snobbano ...
Moments passés – Musique présente
by AAJ Italy Staff
Moments passés - Musique présente di Marc Texier 292 pp. Van Dieren Editeur Quanto ci sarebbe bisogno, anche e soprattutto qui in Italia, di questo genere di iniziative editoriali, a metà strada tra diario, cronaca, libere riflessioni sull’espressione artistica (principalmente, ma non solo, musicale) della nostra epoca… Forse soltanto Mario Gamba saprebbe affrontare la materia con ...
Being Prez: The Life & Music of Lester Young
by J. Robert Bragonier
Being Prez: The Life & Music of Lester Young Dave Gelly Hardcover; 170 pages. ISBN: 978 0195334777 Oxford University Press 2008 A New History of Jazz, arguably the seminal jazz history text, was written in 2001 by Alyn Shipton, a Brit. ...
