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Tribute: Cocker Power

by John Coltelli
April 27, 2020

Tribute: Cocker Power Linda Wolf 333 Pages ISBN: #978-1-64722-025-9 Insight Editions 2020 It was a cloudy yet warm day in mid march 1970 as musicians, singers, soundmen, girlfriends, photographers, a dog, and several hangers on made their way to the A & M records ...

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Green Book Directed By Peter Farrelly

by Mike Perciaccante
December 3, 2018

Green Book Directed by Peter Farrelly Universal Pictures 2018 For those unfamiliar with the guide or simply too young to know, the Green Book was a handbook for African American travelers seeking safe haven when trekking through the segregated Jim Crow South. The Green Book was an indispensable travel guide ...

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Luca Bragalini: Dalla Scala a Harlem. I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington.

by Maurizio Zerbo
October 5, 2018

Dalla Scala a Harlem. I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington. Luca Bragalini 296 pagine ISBN: # 978-88-5920-367-4 EDT 2018 Luca Bragalini è uno degli esponenti di punta della nuova storiografia jazzistica, che mira a rivalutare un filone ellingtoniano fin qui poco e male analizzato. In questo volume la ...

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Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

by Doug Collette
June 16, 2018

Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter in the Grateful Dead's Long Strange Trip Joel Selvin with Pamela Turley 288 Pages ISBN: #978-0306903052 Da Capo Press 2018 Joel Selvin's Fare Thee Well may end up equally parts enlightening and disillusioning for whoever reads it. Drawing upon his coverage of the ...

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My Life in the Key of E

by Richard J Salvucci
March 19, 2018

My Life in the Key of E: A Memoir Pete Escovedo with Sarah Spinner Escovedo 284 Pages ISBN: 978-0-692-87885-9 2017 It's not news that the music business is tough. There are some phenomenally talented people who scuffle for years trying to pay the rent. ...

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The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

by S.G Provizer
March 3, 2018

The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums Will Friedwald 432 pages ISBN: 0307379078 Pantheon 2017 Will Friedwald has written a nice fat, fact-laden book, closely analyzing each song on the fifty-one albums he's chosen. Comparing his responses to one's own is interesting, but what really makes this book valuable ...

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Good Morning Blues

by Richard J Salvucci
January 11, 2018

Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told to Albert Murray William James Basie 399 Pages ISBN: 978-1-5179-0143-1 University of Minnesota Press 2016 (1985) In May 1959 Count Basie and his Orchestra played a “Breakfast Dance and Barbecue," like back in Kansas City, hosted by Roulette ...

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The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

by Roger Crane
December 19, 2017

The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums Will Friedwald 432 pages ISBN: 0307379078 Pantheon 2017 The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums is unique and Will Friedwald, who has extensive knowledge of and affection for singers and songs, has mined an area all his own. Sure, there are books ...

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Raphael Confiant: Madame St-Clair

by Maurizio Zerbo
September 8, 2017

Madame St-Clair, la regina di Harlem Raphaël Confiant 240 pagine ISBN: # 978-8862225663 Stampa Alternativa 2017 Pur non eguagliando i capolavori del genere, “Madame St-Clair" è un esito letterario ben fecondo dell'afrocentrismo contemporaneo. Ne è autore lo scrittore martinicano RaRaphaël Confiant, cantore dell'identità creola-antillana in stretto rapporto con il ...