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Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art
by Francis Lo Kee
Lee Konitz: Conversations on the Improviser's Art Andy Hamilton paperback; 312 pages ISBN: 0472032178 University of Michigan Press 2007 It's mentioned in the author's introduction to this new tome that Konitz himself had doubts that people would be interested in a series of interviews with him ...
The House That Trane Built - La storia della Impulse Records
by AAJ Italy Staff
The House That Trane Built - La storia della Impulse Records di Ashley Kahn Il Saggiatore - 340 pp. - 35 euro Per chi - indicativamente si tratta di persone sotto i 35 anni - è cresciuto o “nato" nell'era del CD, i dischi della Impulse! sono inevitabilmente legati a un'immagine poco omogenea: nella seconda metà ...
Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change In Popular Music In The Early 1940s
by Chris May
Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change In Popular Music In The Early 1940s Peter Townsend ISBN: 1578069248 Hardcover; 256 pages University Press Of Mississippi 2007 In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, Peter Townsend takes a vertical slice through the mainstream of American music round about ...
The Ragtime Kid
by J. Robert Bragonier
The Ragtime Kid Larry Karp Poisoned Pen Press ISBN: 10: 1-59058-326-4 ISBN: 13: 978-1-59058-326-5 2007 “Brun Campbell heard a piano, and that was all she wrote. Any time Brun heard a piano, that was all she ever wrote. The piano was Brun's one true love, and ...
Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia
by J. Robert Bragonier
Richard Cook Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia Penguin ISBN-10: 0141026464 ISBN-13: 978-0141026466 2007 Why, you may be asking, do we need another jazz encyclopedia? Leonard Feather's original 1955 tome, published in eleven editions between then and 1984, is still kicking around, and besides, Ira Gitler ...
Django Reinhardt And The Illustrated History Of Gypsy Jazz
by J. Robert Bragonier
Django Reinhardt And The Illustrated History Of Gypsy Jazz Michael Dregni, with Alain Antonietto and Anne Legrand Speck Press ISBN: 10: 1-933108-10-x ISBN: 13: 978-1-933108-10-0 2007 My middle-aged son is an orthopaedic surgeon, after-hours jazz musician and lover of Gypsy swing in general (and ...
Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM
by Martin Gladu
Horizons Touched: The Music Of ECM Edited by Steve Lake and Paul Griffiths Granta Books ISBN 978-1862078802 2007 ECM: three simple letters that convey much. Indeed, so strong is founder and main producer Manfred Eicher's dialectic of sound and image that unified, holistic reactions/representations are spontaneously triggered in ...
Swing Bop & Free. Il jazz degli anni '60 di Roberto Polillo
by AAJ Italy Staff
Swing Bop & Free. Il jazz degli anni '60 di Roberto Polillo (foto) e Arrigo Polillo (testi) Polillo Editore, 303 pagine, 55 euro C'è una scena del film di Marco Bellocchio Il regista di matrimoni che svela un postulato importante per le vicende dell'arte visuale. In una delle prime sequenze un cameraman segue due sposi, tenta ...
Experiencing Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
Experiencing JazzRichard J. LawnMcGraw-HillISBN: 00724517932007Newly published, Experiencing Jazz, by Richard J. Lawn, is a multimedia textbook with an accompanying CD-ROM, an online learning center for students and instructors, and an optional CD containing complete music tracks. The book covers all aspects of jazz from its inception ...
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz
by Greg Thomas
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz Stanley Crouch Hardcover; 339 pages ISBN: 9780465015177 Perseus Books Group 2006 Stanley Crouch's Considering Genius solidifies his place as one of the most insightful authors on jazz. Certain themes echo throughout, such as the uniquely American identity of jazz as opposed ...
