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The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution"
by Francis Lo Kee
The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard Hardcover; 197 pages ISBN: 0876390599 Berklee A friend who is a computer wiz says “I don't think that I can ever get into simply downloading music. To which I ...
Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra
by AAJ Italy Staff
Walter Kolosky Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra Abstract Logix Books Walter Kolosky è stato rapito dalla musica della Mahavishnu Orchestra a sedici anni, vedendo un loro concerto in TV, nel 1973. Da quel momento la band e i musicisti che la componevano sono diventati l'oggetto delle sue ricerche e ...
Music And The Creative Spirit
by John Kelman
Music And The Creative Spirit Lloyd Peterson Scarecrow Press ISBN 978-0-8108-5284-6 2006 At last, a book about music that doesn't impose any stylistic constraints--or, perhaps most importantly, any geographic ones. Lloyd Peterson, a contributor to Down Beat and Earshot magazines, adds the following subtitle to his new book: ...
Steve Lacy: Conversations
by Clifford Allen
Conversations Jason Weiss, Ed. Softcover; 289 pages ISBN: 0822338157 Duke University Press 2006 As a student of Art History a few years ago, I was always fascinated at the depth that books of artists' writings and interviews reached. Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollock, Michael Snow--no ...
Running The Voodoo Down - The Electric Music of Miles Davis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Running The Voodoo Down The Electric Music of Miles Davis Philip Freeman Backbeat Books Philip Freeman è un giovane giornalista musicale americano, noto per le sue collaborazioni con Jazziz, il Village Voice, The Wire, Down Beat e altre testate contemporanee. In questo libro (pubblicato da Backbeat Books) affronta la musica elettrica di Miles Davis con un ...
Blowin' Hot And Cool: Jazz And Its Critics
by Norman Weinstein
Blowin' Hot And Cool: Jazz And Its Critics John Gennari Cloth; 494 pages ISBN 0-22-28922 University Of Chicago Press 2006 There is a fascinating Trojan horse aspect to this magnificient study of the roles jazz critics have played in the shaping of jazz over the past ...
James Brown: I Feel Good – L'Autobiografia
by AAJ Italy Staff
James Brown I Feel Good - L'Autobiografia Minimum Fax - 2006 - 225 p. - 13 euro È un genere che appassiona e respinge al tempo stesso, l'autobiografia di musicisti famosi, un romanzo su se stessi [per ogni autobiografia è così, anche quelle di perfetti sconosciuti], un [re]inventarsi dentro un continuo gioco di specchi che è ...
Quasi sera. Una storia di Tenco di Ada Montellanico, Stampa Alternativa, 2006, euro 15
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quasi sera. Una storia di Tenco: è questo il titolo della biografia musicale che ha per protagonista il celebre cantautore, ligure d’adozione ma piemontese di nascita. L’ha scritta Ada Montellanico, una delle nostre cantanti di jazz più brave e colte, per la quale l’arte di Tenco ha rappresentato un vero e proprio incontro “fatale”. Ha avuto ...
Power, Passion And Beauty: The Story Of The Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra
by Marco Anderson
Power, Passion And Beauty: The Story Of The Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra Walter Kolosky Paperback; 313 pages ISBN 0-9761016-2-9 Abstract Logix Books 2005 Before the corporate whitewash of the disco plague obliterated a golden age of musical creativity, there was a time when artists with a musical ...
One Long Tune: The Life And Music of Lenny Breau
by Elliott Simon
One Long Tune: The Life And Music Of Lenny Breau Ron Forbes-Roberts University of North Texas Press ISBN:157441210 Born on the cusp of the beat and hippie generations, guitarist Lenny Breau epitomized both but fit into neither. Hailed by many as the greatest guitarist of all time, he remains largely ...
