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A New History of Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
A New History of Jazz Alyn Shipton Continuum Books ISBN: 0826447546 When the Ken Burns television documentary, Jazz, aired earlier this year, it left many jazz fans feeling somewhat dissatisfied. Admittedly, telling the entire story of jazz provides any historian with a great challenge""one difficult to approach while ...
Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive
by R.J. DeLuke
Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive Bill Milkowski ISBN: 0823076717 Billboard Books2001 The history of jazz music is rich with characters, “scenes,” stages in music development and musical progress—all peppered with its own mythology.One feature of the jazz world over the years is ...
Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz
by Jim Nelson
Jazz 101 : A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz John. F. Szwed Hyperion ISBN: 0786884967 This August, a roundtable discussion at the San Jose Jazz Festival attacked a vexing problem: How to reach beyond the converted and increase jazz's audience. Writers, reviewers, and a local DJ all weighed ...
Future Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Reviewed By Janet Sommer Howard Mandel Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN 0195063783 Howard Mandel's “Future Jazz" may be one of the few books to come out in recent years that addresses jazz music from the seventies to the present day. One of it's main attractions is that the author, in ...
Carla Cook at the Cinegrill
by Jim Santella
Carla Cook, Nick Smith, Kenny Davis, Harvey Mason Hollywood, CA April 21, 2001 Built for the city's growing echelon of film stars in 1927, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has long been home to quality in entertainment with an emphasis on artist visibility. The hotel's Blossom Room housed the very first ...
Boston Boy: Growing Up with Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
Boston Boy Nat Hentoff Paul Dry Books ISBN: 096796752X
Stuff of Legends: Miles and Co. and Kind of Blue
by R.J. DeLuke
From the first notes of Bill Evans piano intro it starts to hook you. The resonant tones from Paul Chambers bass tip-toe in and the head to “So What" is played. Then the warm, soulful trumpet enters as a resounding, but subtle, symbol crash from drummer Jimmy Cobb sets off the beginning of Miles Davis' solo ...
John Coltrane: Jazz Revolutionary
by Bob Jacobson
Jazz Revolutionary Rachel Stiffler Barron Morgan Reynolds ISBN 1883846579 Barron has packed an amazing amount of information into this small, 112 page book for “young adults" (middle and high schoolers), part of Morgan Reynolds' Masters of Music series. One of the author's chief virtues is that she does not talk ...
Really the Blues
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Mark Hirsch Really the Blues Bernard Wolfe, Mezz Mezzrow Citadel Press ISBN 0806512059 “Music School? Are you kidding? I learned to play the sax in Pontiac Reformatory"That's the way the first sentence of this wonderful book grabs you and never lets you go. Told ...
Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years
by Joel Roberts
By William Minor and Bill Wishner Angel City Press, 1997 0-883318-40-8 The opening night of the first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958 featured performances by Gerry Mulligan, Max Roach, Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjader, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Harry James, and, just nine months before her death, Billie Holiday. The evening's highlight, however, ...
