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Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: Deluxe Edition
by John Kelman
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: Deluxe Edition Bill Milkwoski Backbeat Books ISBN 0-87930-859-1 2005 In the 1982 film Blade Runner, Tyrel, the man responsible for designing the synthetic humans who are the focus of the story tells one of his aberrant replicants, Roy Batty, “The light ...
Glamour Profession: The Ongoing Skip Heller
by R.J. DeLuke
Glamour Profession: The Ongoing Skip Heller Skip Heller 74 pages; DVD included SkipHeller.com 2006 Skip Heller, a gifted guitarist and one of the more intriguing figures flying under the radar of the American music scene he loves so well, has been up to many things. Writing music for ...
The Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005
by C. Michael Bailey
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005 JT Leroy, Guest Editor; Paul Bresnick, Series Editor Trade Paperback; 202 pages ISBN: 139780306814464 Da Capo Press 2006 'Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill, But of ...
American Big Bands
by David Rickert
American Big Bands William F. Lee Paperback; 480 pages Hal Leonard Publishing ISBN: 0634080547 During the big band heyday of the thirties and forties there were thousands of bands playing around the country, saturating dance halls and the radio waves and entertaining people of all walks of life. ...
Oh, Play That Thing
by David Seymour
Oh, Play That Thing Roddy Doyle Paperback/audio; 378 pages ISBN: 0670033618 Viking Press 1994 Renowned Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is best known for his hard-boiled stories of revolution. Of course, that usually means the Irish Republican Army and civil war, but not so in part two ...
Lester Bangs: Deliri, desideri e distorsioni
by AAJ Italy Staff
Lester Bangs Deliri, desideri e distorsioni Minimum Fax - 2006 - 435 p. - 16.50 euro Seconda incursione - sempre grazie all'editore Minimum Fax e sempre con la traduzione di Anna Mioni - nel mondo di uno dei più divertenti e caustici giornalisti musicali degli ultimi decenni, quel Lester Bangs di cui avevamo già segnalato la ...
Marsalis on Music
by David Seymour
Marsalis on Music: The Book & CD Companion to the Public Television Series Wynton Marsalis Hardcover; 171 pages ISBN: 0393038815 WW Norton & Company 1995 Marsalis on Music, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' groundbreaking audio/visual music education project from 1995, was produced by Sony Classical Film & Video, ...
The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935
by Andrey Henkin
The Evolution of Jazz in Britain 1880-1935 Catherine Parsonage Hardcover; 322 pages ISBN: 0 7546 5076 6 Ashgate 2005 Parsonage's eminently readable history of jazz in turn-of-the-centuries Britain debunks the notion that Europe has been a uniformly enthusiastic haven for jazz appreciation. Early during its development and ...
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
by Jim Santella
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Elijah Wald Softcover; 342 pages ISBN: 0-06-052427-8 Amistad Press 2004 A scholarly work that required extensive research on the part of the author, Escaping the Delta makes an excellent reference. This isn't just some casual ...
Rollplay: The Musical Dice Game
by Mark Sabbatini
Marcus Wolfe Rollplay: The Musical Dice Game Treble Clef Edition Roll Play Dice ISBN: 1-929612-78-8 Practicing scales is dull. This “game" won't change that. Rollplay is promoted by creator Marcus Wolfe as a musical dice game that helps teach beginning to advanced scales. In ...
