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Jazz À La Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz

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Jazz À La Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz Caroline Vézina 236 Pages ISBN: #9781496842428 University Press of Mississippi 2022 The term “creole" is one of those protean things whose meaning hinges on the context in which it is used. At the very least, it ...

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Pepito - Il Principe del Jazz di Marco Molendini

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Pepito—Il Principe del Jazz Marco Molendini 223 pagine ISBN: # 978-88-3389-371-6 Minimum Fax 2022 «Una notte Walter Chiari me incrocia, me vede pallido come un cadavere e me fa: “Principe, vai a dormire e rimboccati la lapide." Se so' messi tutti a ride». Il principe in ...

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The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work in Progress

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The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work in Progress Rick Lopez 768 Pages ISBN: # 9 780578 948713 The Vortex2022 Twenty-five years in the making, Rick Lopez's 768-page opus The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work in Progress is a dizzying, stunning achievement of research and scholarship that stands as a ...

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The Lives of Lost Pianos Look Past Siberian Terrors

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The Lost Pianos of Siberia Sophy Roberts 433 Pages ISBN: 0802149286 Doubleday/Grove Atlantic2020 In The Lost Pianos of Siberia (Doubleday/Grove Atlantic, 2020), British writer Sophy Roberts uses the piano to channel the past and tell the stories of people's lives through earlier cycles of Russian history before the ...

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Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM

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Sound Experiments—The Music of the AACM Paul Steinbeck 272 Pagine ISBN: # 978-0-226-820095 The University of Chicago Press 2022 Fondata a Chicago nel 1965 su impulso di Muhal Richard Abrams, l'AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) è giunta alla quarta generazione di musicisti e resta l'organizzazione ...

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Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East

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Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East Bob Beatty 272 Pages ISBN: #978-0813069500 University Press of Florida2022 Reading Bob Beatty's Play All Night!: Duane Allman and The Journey to Fillmore East is sometimes akin to becoming embroiled in a tortuous tug-of-war between the author's intellect ...

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Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach: Ruminations and Reflections

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Ruminations and Reflections Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach 305 Pages ISBN: # 978-1 955604 10-9 Cymbal Press 2022 Saxophonist Dave Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach have worked together since the early 1970s when they got together in Liebman's loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan to improvise free ...

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On Jazz: A Personal Journey

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On Jazz:A Personal Journey Alyn Shipton300 Pages ISBN: 978-1-108-83423-0 Cambridge University Press 2022 Alyn Shipton is a distinguished jazz journalist, bassist, BBC radio presenter and biographer who may be best known for his A New History of Jazz (Continuum, 2001). In some ways, the present volume is a ...

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Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler

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Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 312 Pages ISBN: #9781911036937 Jawbone Press 2022 There's a special enthusiasm in the jny: Cleveland, Ohio, jazz orbit for avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler—an insistent push to celebrate, memorialize, canonize a legend thought to be unjustly ...

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Jimi by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott

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Jimi Janie Hendrix and John McDermott 320 Pages ISBN: # 978-1797220017 Chronicle Chroma 2022 Released to coincide with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday, this archetypal coffee table book is yet another in a long line of biographies recounting the life and times of the archetypal guitar ...


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