Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner, an important advocate for jazz through his magazine, festival, nightclubs, TV show, compilations and books, died…
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New Book: The Music & Life Of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
The saxophonist and bandleader Cannonball Adderley was not only an important and influential figure in the evolution of postbop and…
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Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz
Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel (Routledge; New York and London) Ornette Coleman Lauren an excerpt…
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This book of about 100 images from six days in 1957
Back in 1957, Decca Records assigned photojournalist Jerry Dantzic to photograph Billie Holiday for an album cover (see The Blues…
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Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago by Paul Steinbeck
With its multifaceted radicalism, the Art Ensemble of Chicago occupies a singular niche in the American music timeline. That creative…
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Clark Terry is a man of many parts
He is a staff musician at NBC in New York; he is one of the city’s most sought-after trumpeters for…
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