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Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
by Kyle Simpler
Something to Live For Walter Van De Leur Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195124480 Legendary composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn became something of an overnight success, nearly thirty years after his death, when David Hajdu released his critically-acclaimed biography Lush Life in 1996. Now, Dutch musicologist, Walter Van de ...
JAM: a Novel
by Kyle Simpler
JAM Alan Goldsher The Permanent Press ISBN: 0786884967 Frank Craft grew up as a self-proclaimed “jazz geek,” totally clueless about rock music. While his schoolmates were listening to Madonna and U2, Frank immersed himself in John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Oddly enough, a few years after he graduated from high ...
I Put a Spell on You
by Kyle Simpler
I Put a Spell on You Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary Da Capo Books ISBN: 0306813270 2003 When Nina Simone died earlier this year, the world lost one of its most memorable voices. She rose from a depression-era southern background to become not only “the high ...
Myself Among Others, A Life in Music
by Kyle Simpler
Myself Among Others George Wein with Nate Chinen Da Capo Books 2003 George Wein started playing piano during his youth and went on to become one of the most important figures in the music world. His playing, though, wasn’t what brought him to prominence. Make no mistake about ...
The CAT on a Hot Thin Groove
by Kyle Simpler
The CAT on a Hot Thin Groove Gene Deitch Fantagraphics Books 2003 Surely everyone knows the old joke 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' 'Practice, practice, practice.' This may not be all that funny but it does have a couple of important points. The obvious message, of course, is ...
Trust Me
by Kyle Simpler
Trust Me Bruce Forman Lost Coast Press 2003 Practically everyone knows the old adage “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.” Chances are good, though, that this saying alone never prevented anyone from wishing. Such is the case with Sam Mann. Sam definitely has a lot ...
Quotable Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
Marshall Bowden & Mike Rooth Quotable Jazz Sound and Vision Books ISBN: 0-920151-55-8 Marshall Bowden definitely knows his stuff when it comes to jazz. He started playing music when he was only eight years old. This early exposure eventually led him to study music at Berklee. Later, he ...
Hidden Meanings of Jazz
by Kyle Simpler
R.D. Edwards Deciphering the Message: Hidden Meanings of Jazz Trump/Loyal Books In 1969, a rumor circulated concerning the alleged death of Paul McCartney. The thing that caused the real frenzy of interest with this story was that the Beatles supposedly had placed clues in their albums hinting at Paul's death. At the ...
Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
by Kyle Simpler
On the album The Jazz Messengers Live at the Cafe Bohemia Volume 1, Art Blakey introduces trumpeter Kenny Dorham by saying that he had played with Charlie Parker “The Prophet of Modern Jazz." If Parker was the prophet, then Blakey was definitely one of its chief apostles. Just take a look at the musicians who formed ...
Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me
by Kyle Simpler
Dave Gelly Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me Backbeat Books ISBN: 0879307293 192 pages In 1964, many British Invasion rock groups were making their way into the American music charts. For a while, though, England was getting a little competition from another musical import. Teens may ...
