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Bill Evans: Everything Happens To Me - A Musical Biography
by C. Michael Bailey
Everything Happens To Me Keith Shadwick Backbeat Books, Music Player Network, San Francisco, 2002 ISBN 0-87930-708-0 Years before Brad Meldau thought to redefine the jazz piano trio, Bill Evans defined it in the first place. In piano jazz history, Bill Evans influenced every major pianist to come after him. Before ...
Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James
by R.J. DeLuke
Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James by Peter Levinson Oxford Univ Press 384pp. ISBN 0195110307 Miles Davis thought he was wonderful. Clark Terry said he could do it all. That’s a couple of pretty fair trumpet players talking about another.About Louis Armstrong?No.His name ...
Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams
by AAJ Staff
Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams Linda Dahl Berkeley: University of California Press ISBN: 0375408991 Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981): was she an important minor and perhaps neglected figure in jazz history, or was she a powerful and original stylist somehow left out of the jazz ...
All Music Guide to Electronica
by AAJ Staff
The All Music Guide to Electronica Edited by Vladimir Bogdanov Backbeat Books ISBN: 0879306289 The unfortunate problem with guides to electronic music is that they have already become obsolete by the time they hit the press. Electronica is a forward-looking genre of music: the ideas and the technology continue to ...
Carmen McRae, Miss Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
Carmen McRae, Miss Jazz Leslie Gourse Billboard Books ISBN: 0879306289 In recent years, we have stretched the meaning of the word diva. In the past, it brought to mind a female vocalist like Maria Callas; nowadays it encompasses much more. There are literary divas, culinary divas, you name it. While ...
Stardust Melody: The Life and Times of Hoagy Carmichael
by Bob Jacobson
Stardust Melody Richard M. Sudhalter Oxford Univ Press ISBN 0195131207 I approached Stardust Melody skeptically. With two Carmichael autobiographies recently re-released, did we really need this biography? Could Sudhalter, so steeped in Hoagy Carmichael's music as a trumpteter/bandleader, be objective about the composer's music?Would the author ...
The Future of Jazz; Critics Weigh In
by R.J. DeLuke
The Future of Jazz Yuval Taylor, et al. A Cappella Books ISBN 1556524463 A new book, The Future of Jazz, (A Cappella Books, 219 pages), brings 10 critics together to discuss various aspects of the music, all with an eye toward the future. Vocal music, the impact of ...
The Good Life
by Bob Jacobson
by Tony Bennett w/ Will Friedwald Pocket Books, 1998, 312 pp. This is a very interesting autobiography. Bennett tells us right away that he's not one to dwell on the past but at age 72 it's time for an overview. With wonderful detail Mr. Bennedetto (Bob Hope shortened it) takes us back to his ...
Bird Lives!
by AAJ Staff
Bird Lives!Bill Moody Walker and Company, 1999 ISBN 0-8027-3327-1 Those who count themselves mystery buffs as well as jazz fans will find double pleasure in Bird Lives!, the latest outing of author Bill Moody's jazz pianist/reluctant sleuth, Evan Horne.Horne lives in a noirish but contemporary Los Angeles. The ...
Central Avenue Sounds
by Char Ham
Central Avenue Sounds Clora Bryant, William Green, Buddy Collette University of California Press1998) ISBN 0520211898Almost any jazz fan points as his or her mecca New York or historically, Kansas City and New Orleans. There is a fourth locus of jazz, Central Avenue section of Los Angeles which was a jazz ...
