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Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It
by David Rickert
Howard E. Fischer Jazz Expose: The New York Jazz Museum and the Power Struggle That Destroyed It Sundog Ltd. ISBN: 1-932203-87-7 134 pages In 2002 Congress provided one million dollars for the development of a jazz museum in Harlem. What many people may not recall is ...
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
by C. Michael Bailey
Elijah Wald Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Amistad Press ISBN: 0-06-052427-8 2004 per · spec · tive ( noun ) (From Dictionary.com with elaborations by the author) (a) The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other ...
Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz
by Peter Aaron
Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz Joshua Berrett Yale University Press 2004 ISBN 0-300-10384-0 Louis Armstrong has been rightly hailed as the most important figure in early jazz for almost as long as Paul Whiteman, once its biggest star, has been denied ...
Sheets of Sound
by Ben McDonnell
Jack Zucker Sheets of Sound Self-Published ISBN: 0975559303 2004 It is with some trepidation that I open a new guitar instructional book, whilst each promises to 'advance your playing to the next level' or help you 'play like (insert guitar hero's name here)', most tend to deliver a ...
Living with Jazz: A Reader
by Joel Roberts
Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Living With Jazz is an apt title for this long overdue first published collection of Dan Morgenstern's writings. The veteran scribe - a former Down Beat editor, current head of Rutgers University's respected Institute of ...
Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin
by John Kelman
Paul Stump Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin SAF Publishing ISBN: 0-04-679124-1 1999 Published in 1999, Paul Stump's Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin is aptly named. While there is a certain degree of biographical chronology to the book, it is more of an ...
Jass
by David Rickert
David Fulmer Jass Harcourt 352 Pages ISBN: 0-15-101025-0 With Chasing the Devil's Tail David Fulmer gave us a captivating mystery set in turn of the century New Orleans, a city reeking of sweat and liquor where the sound of jass was heard blaring throughout the seedy brothels and ...
Satchmo Blows Up The World
by David Rickert
Penny von Eschen Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War Harvard University Press 329 pages ISBN: 0-674-01501-0 Many people believe that the United States won the Cold War not by foreign policy, but by “blue jeans and jazz." For those of us born in ...
Jazz in Search of Itself
by Eric J. Iannelli
Larry Kart Jazz in Search of Itself Yale University Press ISBN 0-30010-420-0 2004 “In every case," writes Larry Kart in his preface to Jazz in Search of Itself , “the pieces collected here came to be written because other people asked for them." Those mysterious “other people" include ...
JAZZ ZOOM: Carryin
by A. Henkin
Desdemone Bardin JAZZ ZOOM: Carryin' It On DVC Press 2004 When this book arrived in the mail, the first thought was that is was a set of LPs. It ended up being something equally impressive. Jazz has never been an easy fit for a coffeetable book. Maybe ...
