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Strange Brew – Eric Clapton & The British Blues Boom 1965-1970

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Strange Brew Eric Clapton & The British Blues Boom 1965-1970 di Christopher Hjort Jawbone, 2007 Questo bellissimo libro di Christopher Hjort (che già si era occupato di Jeff Beck con il riuscito Jeff's Book - A Chronology of Jeff Beck's Career, 1965-1980: From the Yardbirds to Jazz-Rock, scritto a quattro mani con Doug Hinman e pubblicato ...

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Guida alla musica in Italia

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Guida alla musica in Italia Sussidiario all’andar per musica in Italia A cura di Luciano Vanni Testi di Luigi Greco e Claudio Zanini Luciano Vanni Editore, 2007 pagg. 480 Euro 20,00 Lo sapevate che a Ceccano in provincia di Frosinone in aprile si tiene un festival riservato all’improvvisazione indie? E che a Marsala esiste una rassegna ...

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Death of a Bebop Wife

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Death of a Bebop Wife di Grange (Lady Haig) Rutan Cadence Jazz Books 2007. Dietro il titolo pruriginoso, si cela la biografia di Al Haig (1924-1982): grande pianista, ancorché personaggio tra i più sottovalutati del bebop. L’ha scritta la sua prima moglie Grange Rutan, che ha impiegato ben quindici anni per raccogliere le oltre quattrocento testimonianze ...

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Jazz Mavericks Of The Lone Star State

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Dave Oliphant Jazz Mavericks Of The Lone Star State University Of Texas Press ISBN: 978-0-292-71496-0 242 pages In Jazz Mavericks Of The Lone Star State, Dave Oliphant writes about the many great jazz musicians who were born in Texas. Guitarists Charlie Christian and Eddie Durham, reedman Jimmy Giuffre, ...

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Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives From Faulkner's Mississippi To Post-9/11 New York

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Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives From Faulkner's Mississippi To Post-9/11 New York Adam Gussow Hardcover; 188 pages ISBN: 978-1-57233-569-1 The University Of Tennessee Press 2007 An Associate Professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, Adam Gussow writes well and knows how to ...

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Lennie Tristano: Jazz Visions & Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music

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In 1949 Lennie Tristano (1919-78) recorded “Intuition and “Digression , two of the earliest examples of freely improvised jazz. Though the approaches and content differ greatly, authors Peter Ind and Eunmi Shim agree on the following: Tristano best represents how a non-commercial artist can be “air-brushed out of jazz history as an extremely influential teacher.

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L'Africa e il blues.

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L’Africa e il blues Gerhard Kubik Fogli Volanti Edizioni Subiaco 2007 pagg. 286. ISBN 978-88-95482-00-2 Euro 36,00 con cd audio allegato. Grazie alla lungimiranza della casa editrice Fogli Volanti, è stato pubblicato in Italia questo celebre saggio di Gerhard Kubik. Rigore scientifico; mirabile capacità divulgativa; analisi comparativa puntigliosa, volta a ricostruire diacronicamente e sincronicamente i reciproci ...

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My Life In E-Flat

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My Life In E-Flat Chan Parker ISBN 1-57003-245-9 Paperback, 191 pages University Of South Carolina Press 1999 The nearest I ever got to meeting alto saxophone and bebop incendiary Charlie “Bird" Parker was attending an auction of objects once owned by or associated with him. Held ...

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Jazz Guide NYC (2nd Edition)

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Jazz Guide NYC (2nd Edition) Steve Dollar Paperback; 176 pages ISBN: 189214543X Little Bookroom 2007 A good pre-stocking stuffer for both those remotely interested in catching live jazz in New York and expert NYC jazz goers alike. Steve Dollar's well-written club descriptions are sorted by neighborhood, ...

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90 secondi all'inferno - Storie Jazz

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90 secondi all’inferno di Massimo Basile - Gianluca Monastra Luciano Vanni Editore 2007, euro 9 Dodici racconti di jazz ma non solo: deliziosi frammenti di vite intensamente vissute, a metà strada tra la realtà e la libera trasfigurazione artistica. Pochi tratti di penna per immortalare personalità uniche: Parker, Gillespie, Coltrane, Reinhardt e Baker, solo per citarne ...


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