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Jazz Katz: Jazz in NY
by Joel Roberts
Jazz Katz: Jazz in NY Jimmy Katz Hardcover; 188 pages ISBN: 978-3-9810250-4-0 JazzPrezzo 2007 Over the past two decades, Jimmy Katz has established himself as probably the preeminent jazz photographer of his generation, capturing the recent New York jazz scene with the same artistry, ...
Jazz italiano. Emozioni, scritti, immagini di Roberto Cifarelli
by AAJ Italy Staff
T&M associati Editore Reggio Emilia 2003 40,00 euro Realizzare un libro è sempre impresa difficile, e ancor più lo diventa quando si tratti di un libro fotografico. Ma se poi il tema delle fotografie del libro è la musica, e per giunta Jazz, allora la sfida si fa davvero impegnativa. “Illustrare” la musica è infatti impossibile, ...
Someone To Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster
by Bob Jacobson
Someone To Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster Frank Buchmann-Moller Hardcover; 400 pages ISBN: 0472114700 University Of Michigan Press 2007 Unless you already know a tremendous amount about saxophonist Ben Webster, you'll learn so much from Frank Buchmann-Moller's new biography. ...
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
by Joel Roberts
Coltrane: the Story of a Sound Ben Ratliff Hardcover; 250 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12606-3 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007 New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff's new John Coltrane study is really two books in one. The first is a concise, convincing assessment of the evolution of ...
Jazz Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
Jazz Music di Flavio Caprera Pagine 381 Mondadori, Milano, 2006 Euro 12 Evidentemente gli esperti di marketing e i responsabili dell'editoria divulgativa delle grosse case editrici italiane ritengono che oggi sul mercato ci sia una forte richiesta di guide di carattere enciclopedico sul jazz, classicamente impostate con le singole voci in ordine alfabetico. Alla Einaudi, che ...
Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker
by J. Robert Bragonier
Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker Brian Priestley Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19--532709-0 2007 Brian Priestley is a recorded jazz pianist and arranger with extensive British jazz-radio experience to boot, and discovering that a biographer is himself a musician tends to impress me. Priestley ...
Who Owns Music?
by Kurt Gottschalk
Who Owns Music? William Parker Buddy's Knife 2007 Bassist and polymath William Parker's world is huge. Like Charles Mingus or Anthony Braxton, Parker's art is like an enormous quilt. He slowly, deliberately, adds squares to the fabric of a design that is probably bigger than could be completed in a ...
Lee Morgan - His Life, Music and Culture
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lee Morgan - His Life, Music and Culture di Tom Perchard 298 pp. Equinox Publishing Si deve al giornalista Tom Perchard, appena poco più che trentenne firma di The Wire e all'esordio librario, questo splendido lavoro sulla figura del trombettista Lee Morgan, una biografia che è molto più di una semplice storia della tumultuosa vita del ...
The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Jazz
by J. Robert Bragonier
The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Jazz Leonard Feathter & Ira Gitler ISBN 978-19-532000-8 Oxford University Press 2007 When I was asked to review Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler's Biographical Encyclopedia Of Jazz, I jumped at the chance. My copy of Feather's original 1984 tome is dog-eared and ...
Improvising: My Life In Music
by Karen Hogg
Improvising: My Life In Music Larry Coryell Softcover; 209 pages ISBN: 0879308265 Backbeat Books 2007 Improvising: My Life In Music is the autobiography of Larry Coryell. The guitarist takes us through his early years, the start of his career in New York and up through the ...
