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Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way
by Florence Wetzel
Peter J. LevinsonTommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big WayDa Capo Press352 pagesISBN: 0306811111 Tommy Dorsey is certainly one of jazz' most picturesque characters, and this new biography does a marvelous job of bringing the trombonist to life. Dorsey (1905-1956) was in ...
In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man Of Jazz
by David Rickert
Donald M. Marquis In Search Of Buddy Bolden: First Man Of Jazz Louisiana University Press 256 pages ISBN: 0-8071-3093-1 When In Search of Buddy Bolden first came out in 1978, it was a landmark work filled with a staggering amount of research on the legendary trumpeter. Bolden was ...
Understanding Jazz: Ways To Listen
by David Rickert
Tom Piazza Understanding Jazz: Ways To Listen Random House 201 pages ISBN: 1-4000-6369-8 Beware jazz snobs! This book isn't for you. For one thing, it was produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which you probably can't stand, and it features an introduction from Wynton Marsalis, who you probably ...
Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
by Joel Roberts
William L. Maggin Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie Harper Collins ISBN: 0-688-17088-9 2005 With the exception of Louis Armstrong, there's probably been no major artist in jazz as beloved as Dizzy Gillespie. A brilliant musician and innovator who helped launch two of the music's ...
Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation
by AAJ Staff
Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation The Collected Poetry and ProseJames L. Wolf and Hartmut Geerken, co-ed. Waitawhile ISBN: 3833426594 2005 “In his poems, as much as his music, Sun Ra seemed to want to undo and rewrite every concept he could get his ...
Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within
by A. Henkin
William MinorJazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within University of Michigan Press 2004 The history of travel literature is a long one, appearing shortly after Europeans started making trips across the continent and across the world. The form is a combination of diary writing, traveloguery, journalism and ...
Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People, The Music
by Bill Siegel
Julie Coryell Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People, The Music Hal Leonard 1979 Preface by Ramsey Lewis 2000 edition with new preface by Julie Coryell “Jazz-rock fusion . It's a tag, a label from the 1970s that can still provoke impassioned arguments from all sides--pro, con and every ...
Artie Shaw: His Life and Music
by Andrew Velez
Artie Shaw: His Life and Music John White Continuum 2004 192 pages ISBN: 0826469159 When Artie Shaw (née Arthur Jacob Arshawsky) passed on December 30, 2004, one of the very last Swing Era giants was gone. Clarinetist virtuoso, bandleader extraordinaire, composer, respected author, gentleman ...
Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
by David Rickert
Donald L. Maggin Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie Harper Collins 422 Pages ISBN: 0-688-17088-9 Dizzy Gillespie towers over the history of jazz, a true giant among his peers. Over a lengthy and successful career he spearheaded two major jazz movements and played with virtually ...
Swing: A Mystery
by David Rickert
Rupert Holmes Swing: A Mystery Random House ISBN: 1-4000-6158-X 372 pages Rupert Holmes has written award-winning Broadway musicals and popular television programs, and arranged and conducted a Striesand album. Oh yeah, and he's a terrific mystery writer, too, as his new book Swing demonstrates. Swing is ...
