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With Billie
by C. Michael Bailey
With Billie by Julia Blackburn Pantheon Press 2005 ISBN: 0-375-40610-7 354 pages With Billie is a romantically anti-romantic story within a story. Does that sound enigmatic? It should. Like the singer herself, any words written about Lady Day can't help but be shrouded beneath a veil ...
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
by Ken Dryden
Doug Ramsey Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond Parkside Publications ISBN: 0961726679 2005 Paul Desmond was an integral part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet for seventeen years and a brilliant lyrical alto saxophonist who sought a personal sound on his instrument, one of a ...
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
by Brian P. Lonergan
Doug Ramsey Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond Parkside Publications ISBN: 0961726679 2005 Paul Emil Breitenfeld is better known by jazz fans as Paul Desmond and still more widely known as “the guy who wrote 'Take Five'". Desmond's distinctive alto sound and his inventive ...
Like A Rolling Stone Indeed: Bob Dylan's Magnum Opus
by Doug Collette
Greil Marcus Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At The Crossroads Public Affairs ISBN: 1586482548 2005 Even if you agree Bob Dylan has composed more great songs in a wider span of genres than any other songwriter of the Twentieth Century, you probably don't see even the most ...
With Billie
by David Rickert
Julia Blackburn With Billie Pantheon Books ISBN: 0-375-40610-7 368 pages In 1974 the Mark Twain Hotel renamed rooms 203 and 204 as the Billie Holiday Suite. It was decorated with period pieces from her stay in 1949, but it also featured framed newspaper reports from the drug bust ...
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
by Joel Roberts
Gary Giddins Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Oxford University Press ISBN: 0-19-515607-2 2004 Gary Giddins' “Weather Bird column in the Village Voice was required reading for New York jazz buffs for years. Equal parts critic, booster and history teacher, as well as a ...
The Music Never Stops: Phil Lesh Remembers
by Doug Collette
Phil Lesh Searching for the Sound: My Life with The Grateful Dead Little Brown (ISBN: 0316009989) 2005 THE LONG STRANGE TRIP CONTINUES... If it's not too precious a description, reading Searching for the Sound by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is like watching his ...
Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz
by David Rickert
Robert Dupuis Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz Louisiana University Press ISBN: 0-8071-3068-0 384 pages After Bunny Berigan's death many writers said that eventually he would be held in the same high regard as Bix Beiderbecke. Obviously that didn't happen; Bix became the talented white trumpeter who died ...
The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora
by AAJ Staff
Irwin Chusid, Jim Flora The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora Fantagraphics Books 2004 ISBN: 1560976004 Back in the day when album covers had an impact on music-buying decisions and didn't require a magnifying glass, Jim Flora, as described by this book's author, “wreaked havoc with the laws of ...
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues
by Kyle Simpler
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues David Evans Perigee Books 2005 In his introduction to David Evans' recently published book, The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to the Blues, Taj Mahal says just listen to “any rock group of the last fifty years--including The Beatles and particularly ...
