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Jazz in Our Time and Blue: The Murder of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
by Eric Nisenson St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-16785-7by Tom Piazza St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-16789-XSt. Martin's Press was clever to issue these books simultaneously. The authors have widely divergent opinions about the state of jazz today, and reading their books one after the other makes for a fascinating ...
Miles and Me
by R.J. DeLuke
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe Univ of CA Press 200pp. 0520216245 After years of worship from afar, a young writer meets his idol at a party in a short matter-of-fact encounter that ends with the Black Prince sliding almost mysteriously out the door and into ...
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
by AAJ Staff
by John Edward Hasse Da Capo Press, 1995 ISBN 0306806142 Where do you start with Duke Ellington?When Duke launched his career, his contemporaries included James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson and a fresh-on-the-scene Louis Armstrong. When he wrapped things up in 1974, the rock / jazz flirtations of Weather Report and ...
Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation
by Craig Jolley
Open Sky Eric Nisenson St. Martin's Press ISBN: 0312253303 Because of the time required and because of his reservations about the music establishment Sonny Rollins has been reluctant to discuss his career publicly. Lately he seems to be easing up due to the influence of his wife/business manager ...
What to Listen for In Jazz
by AAJ Staff
by Barry Kernfeld Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-07259-7 Though I enjoyed it, I'm a bit confused about the intended audience for “What to Listen for in Jazz."Though the tone is geared toward novices, Barry Kernfeld provides many examples of musical concepts (swing, harmony, improvisation, etc.) in notation. Perhaps the book ...
The Golden Age of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
by Quincy Troupe by William P. Gottlieb Pomegranate Artbooks ISBN 0-87654-355-7 Frequently, when I think of a particular jazz musician--Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday or Dizzy Gillespie, for example--the image that pops into my head is one I've seen in a William Gottlieb photograph.Browsing through “The Golden ...
The Traveler
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Phil Leggiere The Traveler Perry Robinson with Florence Wetzel iUniverse ISBN: 1-55652-425-0 Jazz has inspired a number of fine “oral" autobiographical writer-musician collaborations. Most, like Albert's Murray's Count Basie and Quincy Troupe's Miles Davis memoir (to cite two classics of the genre) ...
Gil Evans-Out of the Cool: His Life and Music
by R.J. DeLuke
Gil Evans-Out of the Cool Stephanie Stein Crease A Cappella Books ISBN: 1-55652-425-0 A new, welcome book on the life of the great arranger and musical ideologist Gil Evans provides a portrayal of a multi-faceted man, both professionally and personally. While magazine articles and items found in the ...
Jazz Profiles: The Spirit of the Nineties
by Bob Jacobson
The Spirit of the Nineties Reginald Carver and Lenny Bernstein Watson-Guptill ISBN: 0823083381 Yes, this type of book's been done before, by Ben Sidran, Arthur Taylor and others. But Reginald Carver and Lenny Bernstein's work has some differences: as the subtitle indicates, the focus here is ...
Thelonious, the Onliest
by R.J. DeLuke
The Thelonious Monk ReaderRob Van Der BliekOxford Univ PressISBN: 019512166X The “Reader" series on great jazz artists is a great idea, and the continuation of the project in the subject of Thelonious Sphere Monk is particularly welcome.“The Thelonious Monk Reader," (Oxford University Press, 286 pages) ...
