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Afro-Cuban Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
Afro-Cuban Jazz Scott Yanow Miller Freeman Books ISBN: 087930619X Considering the rising popularity of latin music, it seems only natural that someone would come out with a guide to Afro-Cuban Jazz—ideal territory for Miller-Freeman’s Third Ear series. Third Ear offers music listeners an in-depth look into genres that might not ...
The "New and Improved" Fifth Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
by AAJ Staff
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on Compact Disc 5th Edition Richard Cook and Brian Morton Penguin USA ISBN: 014051452X Since the maiden voyage of the Penguin Guide in 1992, co-authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton have crusaded to update their tome every two years. (And yes, Herbie Hancock's ...
The Playboy Guide to Jazz
by AAJ Staff
By Eugene Holley Jr. Neil Tesser Plume, 1998 ISBN 0452276489 Aside from its role in encouraging and chronicling the sexual revolution, Playboy has been in the vanguard of reviewing jazz. This guide, written by the magazine's Chicago-based jazz critic, Neil Tesser, is a complete, compact handbook for ...
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler Oxford Univ. Press ISBN 0-19-507418-1 The title in combination with the author credits pretty much says it all: This is perhaps the ultimate reference on the musicians who created and continue to create jazz.Feather, who died before this work was completed, ...
Visions of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on Behalf of James Marcus Gary Giddins Oxford Univ Press, 1998 ISBN 0195076753 As Gary Giddins makes clear in his introduction to Visions of Jazz (The First Century), he's not attempting to draw a canonical line in the sand: “Everyone has his or her vision of jazz, and this ...
The Antioch Review: Special JAZZ Issue
by Bob Jacobson
Since 1941 Antioch University has published this quarterly literature journal. Typical issues include essays, short stories, poems, book reviews and articles about literature. Cartoons are often featured and there's an annual fiction issue.The Review has rarely included jazz as a theme, a terrific exception being Gary Giddins' Spring, 1998 essay on Coleman Hawkins. Why ...
The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson
by Victor L. Schermer
The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0810836483 1999 J.J. Johnson is known to the listening public as a jazz trombonist who has repeatedly won the Downbeat and many other polls, who has played the instrument ...
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
by AAJ Staff
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 Return Forever were ...
Real Blues People: Jazz in Japan
by Wayne Zade
Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan E. Taylor Atkins Duke University Press 0822327104 A recent issue of Jazz Times is devoted to yet another forum on the hoary conundrum of jazz and race. Whose music is jazz and who plays it authentically, African Americans or Caucasians? In discussions such as ...
As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
by Victor L. Schermer
As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir By Chet Baker St. Martin's Press, 1997 0312167970 Baker, Chet - Chesney Henry Baker. Born Yale, Oklahoma, December 23, 1929. Died Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 13, 1988. Trumpeter and singer.Chet Baker was both an original jazz artist and a ...
