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Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius
by Craig Jolley
Jaco Bill Milkowski Backbeat Books ISBN: 087930426X Thoroughly researched and fairly balanced Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: 'the World's Greatest Bass Player' stands as a worthy examination of bassist/composer Jaco Pastorius' heartrending life. Author Bill Milkowski personally knew and sympathized with (but did not ...
Jazz Anecdotes
by Bob Jacobson
Bill Crow Oxford Univ. Press 1990, 350 pages ISBN: 0-19-507133-6 With material from over one hundred sources, bassist Bill Crow compiled a very rich collection of jazz lore and humor. From the marvelous cover photo of Roy Eldridge cracking up Lester Young, to the last page's variations on the old ...
Live At The Village Vanguard
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Janet Sommer Max Gordon Da Capo Press, 1982 ISBN 0306801604 Reading “Live At The Village Vanguard" is like listening to your old Jewish uncle reminisce about the good old days, except that unless your uncle happened to own one of the most historically important, culturally significant nightspots in ...
Jelly Roll Morton: The Piano Rolls
by Jim Santella
Realized by Artis Wodehouse Hal Leonard, 1999 ISBN 0-7935-9887-7 By using MIDI technology with collector’s copies of the original player piano paper rolls, Artis Wodehouse has created the written music that corresponds with Jelly Roll Morton’s piano rolls. The book contains music for six of those twelve piano rolls. “Grandpa’s Spells," “King ...
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide
by C. Michael Bailey
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide John Swenson, ed. Random House, New York 1999 ISBN 0-679-76873-4 No, I Don't Think So. The back cover of The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (TRSJBAG) touts the new publication as the most comprehensive ...
Miles: Ever Changing, Ever Perplexing
by R.J. DeLuke
Miles Davis and American Culture Gerald Early (Editor) Univ of Missouri Press ISBN: 1883982375 Miles Davis is such a dominating figure that he will probably be analyzed forever. His importance in music is obvious. As a performer, conceptualist, bandleader, trumpeter, guru – whatever – he stands as one ...
Electric Miles: Danger, High Voltage
by R.J. DeLuke
Miles Beyond: Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991 Paul Tingen Watson-Guptill Pub ISBN: 0823083462 The new book by Paul Tingen on the music of Miles Davis is a long time in coming. How did a book like this take so long to come around? Let's not go there. The author ...
Berklee: The First Fifty Years
by AAJ Staff
By Ed Hazell Berklee Press Publications It's too bad, but the soundtrack I hear in my head when someone mentions the Berklee College of Music is lifeless fusion: Lots of chops, no passion.See, I like my music rough around the edges. And in my narrow, non-musician's mind, a formal education is an ...
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin
by C. Michael Bailey
Deep In A Dream James Gavin Alfred A. Knopf 2002, 430 pages ISBN: 0-679-44287-1 The Heart of Darkness or Die Leiden des jurgen Chet Baker Early in James Gavin's finely crafted biography of the brilliant and troubled trumpeter Chet Baker, the author quotes long-time Baker associate Enrico Pieranunzi ...
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell
by Larry Koenigsberg
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell Francis Paudras 355 Pages ISBN: # 0-306-80816-1 Da Capo Press 1998 We should all have a friend like Francis Paudras, who nursed the great pianist Bud Powell back to health after rescuing him from an abusive caretaker. This story, ...
