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Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter
by A. Henkin
Michelle Mercer Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter Tarcher ISBN 158542353X 2004 In Footprints , author Michelle Mercer has accomplished a rare feat: a concise, absolutely compelling biography of a jazz legend that illuminates without overwhelming and recreates scenes and conversations convincingly.
Girls Don't Like Real Jazz: A Jazz Patriot Speaks Out
by Kyle Simpler
Walter Kolosky Girls Don't Like Real Jazz: A Jazz Patriot Speaks Out Abstract Logix Books Hardcover, 186 pages ISBN: 0-9761016-0-2 2004 Thirty years ago, Frank Zappa commented that “jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." Today, no one seems very interested in the ...
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
by John Kelman
Gary Giddins Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century Oxford University Press ISBN: 0-19-515607-2 2004 There is an indescribable joy in finding writers who not only know how to cleverly turn a phrase, but who truly understand how to imbue their writing with personality, life ...
The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD, Seventh Edition
by John Kelman
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, Seventh Edition Richard Cook and Brian Morton ISBN: 0-141-01416-4 Penguin Books 2004 It's almost too easy to criticize The Penguin Guide to Jazz, Seventh Edition , Richard Cook and Brian Morton's latest edition in their ongoing series of books listing thousands ...
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz
by Bob Jacobson
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz Terry Gibbs, with Cary Ginell Scarecrow Press 2003 Terry Gibbs recently turned eighty. He's still going strong. Having lived longer than all his bandleaders and most colleagues, he felt very free to relate his experiences with them in this autobiography last year. The results ...
Jazzwomen: Conversations With Twenty-One Musicians
by Kyle Simpler
Jazzwomen: Conversations With Twenty-One Musicians Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse Indiana University Press 2004 Women have been active in jazz since its earliest days, but men have been remained the dominant figures throughout its history. While some performers such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald managed to achieve ...
Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music
by AAJ Staff
Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music Frank Tenaille Lawrence Hill Books ISBN 1556524501 “Jazz was born in America but its deepest roots are in Africa."-- Mulatu Astatqe (father of Ethio-Jazz)The music of Africa unfortunately remains perhaps the most stereotyped ...
Jazz Fiction: The Bear Comes Home
by Cassie Hart
The Bear Comes Home Rafi Zabor Norton ISBN: 0099272555 Pages: 480 So you think talking bears are kid stuff? How about 480 pages of a walking, jiving, verbally gifted, domesticated mammal that--above all else--is a soulful saxophonist with a passion for bebop? ...
Between the Strings: The Secret Lives of Guitars
by John Kelman
Between the Strings: The Secret Lives of Guitars John August Schroeter Mel Bay 2004 Perhaps it's because the guitar is the most popular instrument around - played by everyone from talented professionals in a variety of genres to amateur dabblers at campfires around the world, that it is considered so ...
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism
by John Ballon
Angela Y. Davis Blues Legacies And Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Vintage 1999 ISBN 0679771263 In her exploration of Gertrude “Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Angela Davis reveals how these women helped shape black and feminist consciousness ...
