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Playing The Changes: Milt Hinton's Life In Stories And Photographs
by AAJ Staff
Playing The Changes: Milt Hinton's Life In Stories And Photographs Milt Hinton, David G. Berger and Holly Maxson Hardcover; 364 pages ISBN: 0826515746 Vanderbilt University Press 2008 Perhaps no one captured jazz in as much of its candid glory as bassist Milt Hinton, who seemed to ...
Ian Carr: Music Outside
by Nic Jones
Music Outside Ian Carr Hardcover; 204 pages. ISBN: 978 09550908 6 8 Northway Books 2008 This is the republication of a book first published in 1973, and as such--and without the benefit of rose-tinted nostalgia--it offers a snapshot of a British jazz scene that was extraordinarily ...
Arcana II: Musicians On Music
by Eyal Hareuveni
Arcana II: Musicians On Music Edited by John Zorn Paperback, 294 pages ISBN: 0978833767 Hips Road/Tzadik 2007 This is the second volume in an ongoing series in which avant-garde musicians write about their lives, their creative processes and what music means to them. The ...
The Producer
by Martin Gladu
The Producer Dunstan Prial Hardcover; 347 pages ISBN: 9780312426002 Picador 2007Dunstan Prial's book The Producer sheds a new light on the life of John Hammond--producer, A&R executive, writer/journalist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People board member and all-round jazz enthusiast. Armed with ...
The Miles Davis Reader
by Francis Lo Kee
The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features from DownBeat Magazine Frank Alkyer Hardcover; 356 pages ISBN: 142343076X Hal Leonard 2007 Miles Davis (1926-1991) was more than a trumpet player and bandleader. He was also well known for his outspoken personality, sometimes viewed as the epitome of ...
Two Ways of Bookending John Coltrane
by Norman Weinstein
Reviewing a massive reference volume about saxophonist John Coltrane alongside a jazz journalist's personal overview of Coltrane and his legacy might at first seem like comparing an apple with an orange--but bear with me. This is really like comparing an apple painted by Cezanne with a lemon painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Arcimboldo was a 16th century ...
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa
by Russ Musto
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa Ingrid Minson Hardcover; 416 pages ISBN: 0195128257 Oxford University Press 2007 This is a long overdue overview of the complex and often contentious subject of jazz and race in America--a landmark academic work that peeks into ...
Making Records: The Scenes Behind The Music
by Martin Gladu
Making Records: The Scenes Behind The Music Phil Ramone with Charles L. Granata Hardcover; 320 pages ISBN: 9780786868599 Hyperion 2007For an artist, there can be few human presences in a recording studio as reassuring as that of Phil Ramone--as his collaborations with some of ...
You Should Be Dancing - Biografia politica della discomusic
by AAJ Italy Staff
You Should Be Dancing - Biografia politica della discomusic Peter Shapiro 431 pp. Kowalski Si celebrano proprio in questi giorni i trent'anni de La febbre del sabato sera e nonostante buona parte del pianeta - specie quella dedita al culto delle arti sonore - continui a proclamare che la disco music è poco più che spazzatura ...
Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM
by Andrey Henkin
Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM Edited by Steve Lake and Paul Griffiths Hardcover; 448 pages ISBN: 1862078807 Granta 2007 After almost 40 years, over 1,000 albums and music by a roster that has included musicians of note from many other countries, it is about time ...
