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Continuum
by C. Michael Bailey
Continuum Press, best known for spiritual and religious releases, has embarked on an ambitious series entitled 33 1/3 devoted to a reconsideration of some of the more important LP releases (generally occurring prior to the advent of the compact disc) of the past 40 years. Scanning the titles (presented without artist identification), any 30-, 40-, and ...
Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia
by AAJ Staff
Todd S. Jenkins Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia Greenwood Press 2004 ISBN: 0313298815 Two volumes, 468 pages Free improvisation may represent only a minute fraction of music sales, to the extent jazz has much of a market share in the first place. ...
Jazz on Film
by Jim Santella
Scott YanowJazz on Film Backbeat Books320 pages, softcoverISBN 0-87930-738-82004 When Nnenna Freelon appeared in a cameo role as a nightclub singer in What Women Want (2000), with Mel Gibson; it reminded us that jazz remains as viable a subject on film as any. Today, ...
The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991
by John Kelman
George Cole The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991The University of Michigan PressISBN: 0-472-11501-4 2005 Always a controversial figure, the last decade of Miles Davis' life may, paradoxically, have been the most critically-contested of his career. Gone were the radical shifts of the man who ...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004
by C. Michael Bailey
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004 Mickey Hart (Editor); Paul Bresnick (Series Editor) Publisher: Da Capo Press October 30, 2004 ISBN: 0306813807 360 pages The Da Capo Best Music Writing series turns five volumes old with the publishing of the Da Capo Best Music ...
The Lost Wave
by Kyle Simpler
The Lost Wave by Charles Underhill Broma Books Many jazz listeners cite Miles Davis albums such as Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson as the true origin of jazz-rock fusion. Others, such as critic Alyn Shipton, contend that fusion actually started in England a few years before these records came out. In the ...
No Saints No Saviors: My Years with The Allman Brothers Band
by Doug Collette
Willie Perkins No Saints No Saviors: My Years with The Allman Brothers Band Mercer University Press (ISBN: 0865549672) 2005 No Saints No Saviors is Willie Perkins' story of his days as road manager with The Allman Brothers and, in later years, with Gregg Allman. Since it is presented in anecdotal ...
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
by Joel Roberts
Ray Charles and David Ritz Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story Da Capo ISBN: 0306814315 2005 If the widely heralded and Oscar-nominated biopic Ray wrapped Ray Charles' extraordinary life in somewhat too neat a Hollywood package, Charles' newly reissued 1978 autobiography pulls no such punches. It's a raw, ...
The Music Internet Untangled: Using Online Services to Expand Your Musical Horizons
by Mark Sabbatini
Andy Breeding The Music Internet Untangled: Using Online Services to Expand Your Musical Horizons Giant Path Publishing 2005 The risk of writing a book about online music is it may be obsolete in less time than it takes to write a paragraph reviewing it. Andy Breeding mostly manages ...
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
by David Rickert
Michael Dregni Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend Oxford University Press ISBN: 019-516752-X 326 pages Today many French gypsies only own two books: the Bible and Charles Delaunay's biography of Django. However, this is a testament to the legacy of the guitarist more than the ...
