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Music: Black, White & Blue
by Larry Koenigsberg
Music: Black, White & Blue by Ortiz Walton William Morrow, 1972 Music: Black, White & Blue is both a musicological and sociological treatment of African-American music. Walton, himself a musician, begins with the African roots of both the musical practices and social uses of jazz: a participatory music with “the cries, falsettos, ...
Setting the Tempo
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Peter Luce Setting the Tempo: 50 Years of Great Jazz Liner Notes Edited with an Introduction by Tom Piazza Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1996 ISBN: 0-385-48000-8 Recently, an ongoing debate with a friend over the respective sonic merits of jazz on vinyl (my preference) vs. ...
Duke Ellington: A Spiritual Biography
by Bob Jacobson
Janna Tull Steed Crossroad Publishing, 1999 Hardcover, 192 pages ISBN: 0-8245-2351-2 Why another Ellington biography? The sub-title, A Spiritual Biography, is critical. While Steed does an excellent job of re-telling the standard Ellington story, her special province is the spiritual aspects of Ellington's life, particularly his work from 1965-73 on ...
All-Music Guide to Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Peter Luce All-Music Guide to Jazz, 2nd Edition Edited by Michael Erlewine with Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Scott Yanow Miller Freeman Books, 1996 ISBN 0-87930-407-3 No doubt about it, the “All-Music Guide to Jazz" is a reference that all jazz collectors should have. I am ...
Open The Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter
by Craig Jolley
Open The Door William R. Bauer Univ of Michigan Press ISBN: 019514838X Betty Carter came up as a bebop-only singer in the late 40's. She gradually broadened and deepened her music, enduring what she perceived as failed career over the next 25 years. Beginning with an engagement at the Keystone ...
Jazz: A Visual Journey
by Kyle Simpler
Jazz: A Visual Journey Herb Snitzer Notables Incorporated ISBN: 0967671507 Great photographers often have an area of interest that becomes a central theme in their work. When you think of Ansel Adams, for example, you naturally imagine Yosemite; or with Annie Lebovitz, popular celebrities come to mind. In the case ...
Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester
by Bob Jacobson
Lester Leaps In Douglas Henry Daniels Beacon Press ISBN: 0807071021 Once again the life of one of our music's most beautiful, unique voices is chronicled, this time in a historical biography. In Daniels' work you won't find detailed analyses of Young's performances or compositions, nor is the focus on juicy ...
Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945
by Jim Nelson
Lost Chords Richard M. Sudhalter Oxford Univ Press ISBN: 019514838X 2001 Richard Sudhalter, it might be said, has white jazz on the brain. Over the years, he's amassed a fantastic amount of knowledge and understanding of the white jazzmen who performed prior to World War II. He ...
Bright Moments: The Life & Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
by Bob Jacobson
John Kruth Welcome Rain Publishers ISBN: 1566491053 Seven years ago at a jam session in Washington, D.C.'s Twins Lounge, the house band pianist called Rahsaan Roland Kirk's “Bright Moments". To his dismay, none of the four tenor sax players, who had probably memorized hundreds of songs between them, knew this ...
Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington
by AAJ Staff
By Stuart Nicholson Northeastern University Press 1999 ISBN-55553-380-8 “Reminiscing in Tempo" is not the definitive biography we might have expected in Ellington's centenary, but it's a valuable book nonetheless.Nicholson, the author of books on Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, has taken the oral biography route. It can be ...
