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The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone
by Bob Jacobson
Michael Segell The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, From Noisy Novelty to King of Cool Farrar, Straus and Giroux 336 pages ISBN: 0374159386 2005 I recently saw Steven Spielberg's new movie, Munich. When the Israeli hero moves to Brooklyn, the sound of a saxophone ...
Tommy Dorsey: Livin' In A Great Big Way
by David Rickert
Peter J. Levinson Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way Da Capo Press 352 pages ISBN: 0306811111 To the people who played with him, Tommy Dorsey was a real S.O.B. To millions of others, he was one of the greatest big band leaders, providing the soundtrack that ...
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius
by Ty Cumbie
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius (10th Anniversary Edition)Bill Milkowski Backbeat Books 2005 Very rarely an exceptional artist emerges, dramatically altering the possibilitites in music. Jaco Pastorius was one of these, as Bill Milkowski's book (updated from the 1995 first edition) on the electric ...
Gwen Ansell: Soweto Blues
by Seton Hawkins
Gwen Ansell Soweto Blues Continuum ISBN 0826416624 350 pages 2004 Gwen Ansell's Soweto Blues is the book South African jazz lovers have been praying for. Originally conceived as a radio show entitled “Ubuyile, the book is the result of over 80 hours of ...
Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
by John Kelman
Philip Freeman Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis Backbeat Books ISBN 0-87930-828-1 2005 With the plethora of books out about Miles Davis, a fair question would be: do we need another one? Even Miles' electric period has been covered in detail in Paul Tingen's ...
All That the Dog Ever Wanted
by Bob Jacobson
Amy Neftzger All That the Dog Ever Wanted Fields of Gold Publishing ISBN: 0974629618 2005 32 pages In this children's picture book, Django the golden retriever tries to emulate his master, Cole, an aspiring jazz musician. Cole, who we never actually see, has just received a ...
Jazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner
by AAJ Staff
By Karen Hogg Amanda MonacoJazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner (Book+CD)Alfred Publishing ISBN: 0739036718 47 pages 2005 Jazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner, the debut instructional tome from New York City-based musician Amanda Monaco, is a well-thought out, step-by-step guide for the jazz guitar ...
Jim Marshall: Jazz
by Joel Roberts
Jim Marshall: Jazz Photographs by Jim Marshall; Introduction by Phil Elwood Chronicle Books ISBN: 0811843548 144 pages; 115 B/W photos 2005 Though he's known mostly for his iconic photographs of '60s rock royalty like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beatles, Jim Marshall was a jazz ...
Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe
by Clifford Allen
Mike Heffley Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz Yale University Press ISBN: 0300106939 400 pages 2005 While improvised music in Europe has certainly had a storied history, despite being decidedly more “condensed" temporally than its American counterpart, this history is something ...
Paris Jazz: A Guide, from the Jazz Age to the Present
by Eric J. Iannelli
Luke Miner Paris Jazz: A Guide, from the Jazz Age to the Present The Little Bookroom ISBN: 1892145294 156 pages It would be difficult to overestimate the influence that Paris, much like New Orleans, Chicago and New York, has had on jazz music, its health and ...
