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The Jazz CD Listener's Guide
by AAJ Staff
by Howard J. Blumenthal Billboard Books ISBN 0-8230-7662-8 Listeners new to jazz now have an option to those big, fat, daunting record guides: “The Jazz CD Listener's Guide" is compact enough to fit in your back pocket as you cruise the aisles of your favorite record shop.The guide's author, Howard ...
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
by AAJ Staff
by Geoff Dyer North Point Press, 1996 0-865-47490-7 At first glance, Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful appears to be a collection of biographical essays. It's not. In his portraits of jazz luminaries like Bud Powell, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, and Ben Webster, the author plays sufficiently fast and loose with the facts to ...
Fats Waller The Cheerful Little Earful
by Kyle Simpler
Fats Waller... Alyn Shipton Continuum Books ISBN 0826457967 The jazz world has its share of legendary figures, and Thomas “Fats” Waller ranks as one of the most memorable. His enormous talent and humor are only paralleled by his infamous hedonistic lifestyle. Obviously, Waller often approached life like an ...
Blue Bossa
by Bob Jacobson
Blue BossaBart Schneider, 1998 Viking, 244 pages ISBN 0-670-87695-X Bart Schneider brings us the story of the Chet Baker-ish Ronnie Reboulet, five years after he's walked away from his trumpet, singing and hard dope. It's the mid-1970's, with the Patty Hearst kidnapping as context. Ronnie, now in his late 40's, ...
MusicHound Swing: The Essential Album Guide
by C. Andrew Hovan
If you haven't encountered the MusicHound series before, then take a trip to your local book store and cop a look. Published by Visible Ink Press, the series now boasts album guides for Rock, Blue, Jazz, Country, Lounge, and now Swing. MusicHound Swing, edited by Steve Knopper, is a 461-page book focused at gaining some of ...
Images of the Blues
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Janet Sommer by Lee Tanner and Lee Hildebrand Foreword by David Ritz Friedman/Fairfax Publishing ISBN 1-56799-693-0, 144 pages I can't sleep at night, I can't eat a bite, 'cause the man I love don't treat me right."“I got nothin' but bad news, I got ...
New York Is Now! The New Wave of Free Jazz
by AAJ Staff
New York is Now! Phil Freeman The Telegraph Company ISBN: 1930606001 The title says it all. While free jazz has had many homes in the United States (especially Chicago), its unquestioned headquarters today is the city of New York. Phil Freeman takes an explicitly outsider perspective on the NYC insider ...
Bill Evans, The Pianist as an Artist
by Kyle Simpler
The Pianist as an Artist Enrico Pieranunzi Continuum Books ISBN: 0826457967 Many professional musicians possess a great talent, but only a few achieve a level of true greatness. The legendary pianist, Bill Evans definitely fits into this second category. Evans left an indelible mark on the history of jazz. Even ...
Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
Cookin.'.. Kenny Mathieson Canongate Books ISBN 1841952397 Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process to begin. One of bebop's most exciting offshoots ...
Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz and Death Frederick J. Spencer Univ Press of Mississippi ISBN 1-57806-453-8 Charlie Parker's famous alto saxophone break on “Night in Tunisia," recorded for Ross Russell's Dial label March 28, 1946 may be immortal, but the fragile vessel producing such genius was not. The health and demise of jazz musicians, ...
