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Too Marvelous For Words

by Larry Koenigsberg
March 8, 2004

by James Lester Oxford University Press (New York, 1994)" Too Marvelous For Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum" by James Lester; published by Oxford University Press (New York, 1994). The man behind those extraordinary pianistic flourishes was a somewhat shadowy figure, but James Lester has brought him into the light with a ...

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Interviews and Master Classes with Jazz's Leading Brass Players

by Bob Jacobson
March 8, 2004

Interviews and Master Classes Bob Bernotas Boptism Music Publishing ISBN 0971798303 In this compilation of thirty-eight articles previously published in Windplayer, Jazz Player and other sources, thirty of brass's top practitioners are profiled, interviewed or provide “Master Classes". Bernotas' subjects are fascinating people with a lot to say ...

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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

by Joel Roberts
March 8, 2004

by David Hajdu Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996 0-374-19438-6 The young pianist and composer Billy Strayhorn was introduced to Duke Ellington, already a major international star and leader of one of the world's most popular bands, for the first time backstage at an Ellington Orchestra performance at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh ...

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The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original

by C. Michael Bailey
March 8, 2004

The Art Pepper Companion Todd Selbert Cooper Square Press ISBN: 0-08154-1967-0 The Art Pepper Companion: Writings on a Jazz Original is the most significant print media on the greatest alto saxophonist of the post Parker era published since Pepper's autobiography Straight Life was updated and published in 1994. It was ...

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Rollin' and Tumblin'

by Kyle Simpler
March 8, 2004

Rollin' and Tumblin' Jas Obrecht Miller Freeman Books ISBN: 0879306130 There are always revolutions in the music world—periods where the sound makes a dramatic departure from the status quo. Western Swing, Rock and Roll, and Jazz-Rock Fusion are all examples of changes that helped broaden musical horizons. Another important development ...

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Miles, From the Eyes of a Friend

by R.J. DeLuke
March 8, 2004

Miles to Go Chris Murphy Thunder's Mouth Press ISBN: 1560253614 A new book on Miles Davis has hit the stands and it’s bound to garner some reaction because of its subject matter: another take on the Price of Darkness, or whatever moniker one wants to stick on the musical and ...

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Living the Jazz Life: Jazz Stories x 40

by R.J. DeLuke
March 8, 2004

Living the Jazz Life W. Royal Stokes Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195081080 ”Living the Jazz Life,” isn’t groundbreaking stuff, but it needn’t be. It’s a group of musicians (not exclusively jazz – the blues is well represented) speaking about their lives, the things and people that influenced them, and some ...

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Classic Jazz

by Daniel Kassell
March 8, 2004

Classic Jazz Floyd Levin Univ. CA Press ISBN: 0520213602 Classic Jazz is about “traditional American Jazz", 50 years, classic New Orleans jazz and the artists who performed it in New Orleans and on the West Coast “about jazz - it's present, it's past, and it's evolution" Milt Hinton ...

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MONK

by Larry Koenigsberg
March 8, 2004

by Laurent de Wilde Marlowe & Company (New York, 1997) This is a biography with the flavor of a novel. Lacking any of the scholarly apparatus customary in a historical work -- no index, footnotes, bibliography, discography, or acknowledgments -- it nevertheless imposes a knowing and occasionally stylish sensibility on its treatment of the ...

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You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat

by Kyle Simpler
March 8, 2004

You Can't Steal a Gift Gene Lees Yale University Press ISBN: 15843002 When Gene Lees left Canada in 1955 to come to the United States, he had no idea what was awaiting him. Within a few years after his arrival, he landed the prestigious position of editor for ...