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Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis' Hair
by Eric J. Iannelli
Kinds of 'do: The Story of Miles Davis' Hair Ken CheveuxSchneider & Haar Publishers 2004 If you were too preoccupied with the master trumpeter's playing, you might have overlooked what more style-conscious fans noticed all along: Miles Davis' coif changed almost as radically as his music over the ...
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Wife
by Jim Santella
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Wife Laurence Bergreen Books On Tape ISBN 0-7366-4103-3 Velma Middleton sang with Louis Armstrong and his all-star band throughout the later years of his varied career. Her velvety-smooth voice lent itself to the trumpeter’s forlorn blues, as well as to his genuine show of ...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002 & 2003
by C. Michael Bailey
I have been trying to write this review for the past two months. The Da Capo Best Music Writing series was started in 2000 and I previously reviewed in these pages the first two volumes, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 & 2001. Like those two volumes, the 2002 and 2003 editions of the series host ...
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
by Jim Santella
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life Laurence Bergreen 1997 ISBN 0-7366-4103-3 Laurence Bergreen paints both a comprehensive and factual summary of the life of Louis Armstrong. He backs up what he says with quotes. Armstrong was a writer. He kept copious notes. The artist bought his first typewriter in 1922 and ...
The Official Book Of Louis Armstrong House & Archives
by Daniel Kassell
Louis Armstrong: The Off Stage Story Of Satchmo By Michael Cogswell 192 pp. Portland, OR Collectors Press In the introduction Louis Armstrong: The Off Stage Story Of Satchmo Michael Cogswell, author and organizer of the Archive and House (a million dollar endeavor supported by the Louis Armstrong Educational ...
A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
by AAJ Staff
A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of AmericaCraig Werner Plume, 1999 ISBN 0-452-28065 A Change is Gonna Come is another entry in a genre-in-the-making: critical studies that aim to trace the degradation of America's popular music. The gist of these books is that the music that ...
A Bari Player's Defense
by John Stevenson
Life, On the Fence Marvin “Doc" Holladay George Ronald Publishing ISBN: 0853984549 Generally regarded as an outsized and unwieldy instrument, the baritone saxophone has not always been accorded the status of its more manageable sister instruments (soprano, alto and tenor) in the saxophone family. The huge ...
The Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958
by Larry Koenigsberg
by John Litweiler Da Capo Press (New York, 1990) Despite an original publication date of almost 15 years ago, Litweiler's exposition of the history, methods, intentions, and personalities associated with free jazz from its inception remains a useful introduction to this music. Free jazz remains anathema to many musicians and listeners, and is rarely ...
The Sound of the Trumpet
by Joel Roberts
by Bill Moody Walker and Company ISBN 0-8027-3291-7 A long-lost recording by Clifford Brown is discovered by a mysterious record collector, along with an old trumpet with the initials C.B. engraved in the bell. Are the tape and trumpet authentic? If so, they'd surely be quite valuable. But would they be worth ...
Images of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Janet Sommer By Lee Tanner Foreward by Nat Hentoff Michael Friedman/Fairfax Publishing ISBN 1567993672 More than just a collection of Lee Tanner's best jazz photographs, which this is, “Images of Jazz" is also part memoir and part history lesson. The newest edition even comes with a CD of classic jazz ...
