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Don Breithaupt	Music Pad	The Staff Stamper
Jazz Educators Handbook	Legends Of Jazz	Mary Lou Williams
Marty Khan	Penguin Books	Scott Yanow
	Yale University Press

Jazz Pedagogy

Book/Dvd Set

A comprehensive guide that opens the doors to the world of jazz education. Find practical solutions to challenges such as the jazz concept, understanding the rhythm section, jazz improvisation and jazz styles, including a great section on Latin jazz. This innovative, one-of-a-kind handbook incorporates the Web as an ongoing resource tool that provides the ultimate in reference information. The included DVD presents over three hours of audio/video demonstrations of rehearsal techniques, how to really teach jazz improvisation, and how to understand and improve the rhythm section. An essential addition to every library and/or jazz pedagogy class.

Book/DVD

$59.95

Mary Lou Williams

"Soul on Soul offers valuable insights about how gender shaped the opportunities and reputations of the first generation of jazz women... a balanced reading of this legendary jazz pianist... Kernodle's study... establishes a rightful place for Williams as a jazz pioneer." --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Williams's artistic brilliance and lasting legacy are affirmed in this definitive volume, which masterfully interweaves biographical details with incisive commentary on her music, performances, and recordings. Setting Williams's intriguing story against the racial, social, cultural, and musical currents of her times, Tammy L. Kernodle draws on extensive interviews and meticulous research to chronicle the tragedies and triumphs of Williams's stormy life.

This striking portrait untangles the paradoxes of an exceptionally gifted pianist who defied the odds and endured hardships to create innovative music that inspired musicians and fans alike. It celebrates her persistent yet loving spirit, extraordinary talent, and enduring body of work.

Soul On Soul

The Life And Music Of Mary Lou Williams

By Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle

Pianist, composer, and arranger, Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981), was one of the most significant and influential artists in the history of jazz. A versatile musical genius who experimented with and mastered most of the emerging styles in jazz's evolution, Williams wrote and arranged for such greats as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Yet throughout her prolific career of nearly six decades, she battled as an African American woman to achieve recognition, equality, and acceptance in the male-dominated world of jazz.

Included are her struggles with racism, sexism, and age discrimination, and such personal misfortunes as recurrent bouts of poverty, turbulent marriages and love affairs, extreme loneliness, and a string of bad business decisions.

Born to an impoverished, unmarried mother in Georgia, and raised in Pittsburgh, the self-taught Williams started performing publicly when she was six-years-old. By the age of twelve, the "little piano girl" was touring on the black vaudeville circuit. Kernodle follows Williams's harsh life on the road, her rise to fame in the 1930s as an arranger and performer for Andy Kirk's Kansas City swing band Twelve Clouds of Joy, her role as matriarch of the bebop movement, her solo career, her blossoming spirituality, and conversion to Roman Catholicism. In her later years, Williams wrote sacred jazz pieces that brought emotional healing to listeners, and worked tirelessly to help and rehabilitate addicted, down-and-out musicians. She was also strongly committed to advancing jazz composition and to educating others about the cultural roots of jazz.

Hardcover $22.95

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow has been writing about jazz since 1975. Jazz editor of Record Review during its entire publishing history (1976-84), he has written for Downbeat, JazzTimes, Jazz Forum, Jazz News, and Strictly Jazz magazines. Yanow currently is a regular contributor to Cadence, Jazziz, Coda, L.A. Jazz Scene, Mississippi Rag, Jazz Improv, Jazz Now, Jazz Report, and Planet Jazz.
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Scott also compiles the jazz listings for the Los Angeles Times, and has written over 200 album liner notes. Editor of the All Music Guide to Jazz and author of Duke Ellington, Yanow also wrote Swing and Afro-Cuban Jazz for the Third Ear--The Essential Listening Companion series. More information on Scott can be found at:

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Afro-Cuban Jazz

By Scott Yanow

$19.95

This is the largest and most comprehensive book on Afro-Cuban jazz that I've ever seen!" —Poncho Sanchez, conguero and bandleader"

"The music that we call Afro-Cuban jazz is among the world's most joyous and heartfelt music. Scott Yanow has written an extensive overview of the history of Latin Jazz and the incredible musicians that have developed this exciting music. You're in for a rare treat and a great read!" —Susie Hansen, violinist

Through anecdotal biographies and evocative photos, this book portrays every key Afro-Cuban jazz innovator past and present, plus other jazz artists influenced by this infectious music. You'll also find reviews and ratings of recordings that make (or don't make) the cut, and essays packed with historical insight not found in other guides.

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BeBop

By Scott Yanow

$19.95

"Bebop is a spiritual journey, demanding obstacle course, and a way of life. Yanow leads us eloquently through this journey." -
Karrin Allyson, jazz singer

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Swing

By Scott Yanow

$19.95

This book explores the full swing spectrum from its origins in the 1920s through its current retro resurgence. Features intriguing capsule biographies of 400 of the best musicians, from classic artists like Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to retro swingers such as the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, with each artist's most notable CDs reviewed and rated, plus info on film appearances, books, and hard-to-find recordings.

Scott Yanow has put together a crash course on Afro-Cuban Jazz. For those who are just learning about the genre, AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ will give you an overview, introduce you to most of the significant artists in the genre...

Book Description

Yanow, author of the successful Swing and Bebop entries of the "Third Ear" series, here tackles Afro-Cuban jazz, a genre born, he claims, from Dizzy Gillespie's collaboration with Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. After a lively brief overview, he offers a section of concise biographies that includes the usual suspects like Arturo Sandoval and Tito Puente. Within the biographical entries are listings of recommended recordings on CD. In cases where an artist's music is not yet available on CD, Yanow furnishes out-of-print LPs worth searching for. There is also a "Various Artists" list, a useful way to get a feel for a variety of performers. Readers will especially enjoy the author's illuminating and enjoyable conversations with four Afro-Cuban musicians. Though Yanow's enthusiasm is one of this work's strengths, his penchant for using exclamation points is ultimately distracting. Also, his indexing is questionable. For example, he refers to Louie Bellson's wonderful Ecu /Ritmos Cubanos, which features several outstanding Latin musicians, in percussionist Luis Conte's section. Yet Bellson's record isn't listed under his own name in Yanow's section of prominent jazz musicians who have recorded Afro-Cuban jazz, and neither Bellson nor the album is indexed. His very small annotated list of recommended books demonstrates the lack of written material available to English readers, so even with its flaws, this is valuable. Especially for those unfamiliar with this music, Afro-Cuban Jazz should prove to be an indispensable resource. Recommended for public, academic, and music libraries.

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Book Description

On the heels of swing, bebop lifted jazz from the dance floor into an art form powered by virtuoso players. This engaging collection of essays, biographies and reviews by veteran jazz journalist Scott Yanow probes the lives and revolutionary works of more than 500 great beboppers, including the giants: Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach and Thelonious Monk. The guide also explores key artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Christian and the young Miles Davis, plus such later figures as Joe Pass and Barry Harris.

A collection of engaging essays, revealing bios, and insightful reviews explores the innovators, tunes, and attitudes that paved the way for all of modern jazz. 40 photos.

"I’m always impressed by Scott Yanow’s intelligent thoughts on jazz. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in bebop."- Bill Watrous, jazz trombonist and bandleader

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Book Description

"Yanow's is a unique approach, making the book the ultimate travel guide for anyone obsessed with the style."
The debut title in Miller Freeman's new "Third Ear" series ("designed to offer fresh perspectives on the breadth and depth of rich music genres"), this work encompasses the golden era of Swing (1935-46) in addition to the 1990s "Retro Swing" movement. Yanow, author of Duke Ellington and an editor of All Music Guide to Jazz, opted to class the more than 500 entries by musical specialty (Trumpeters, Guitarists, Female Vocalists, etc.) instead of using a straightforward A-Z organization. This approach effectively shows the threads of commonality and influence among the various performers in most of Swing's permutations. While he notes in his introduction the difficulty in choosing what and what not to include (Western Swing and 1950s Cool Jazz being the two genres that take the biggest hits), Yanow nevertheless offers excellent coverage, presenting reviews and ratings for 1500 recordings. A refreshingly non-verbose writing style and useful indexing make this a valuable reference. Besides showing Swing's importance in shaping American popular music, Yanow's book is also just plain fun to read. Recommended for all popular music collections. -Phoenix New Times, November 23-29, 2000

Includes insightful essays that explore this music's cultural impact, fun photos and swing memorabilia.

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Yale University Press

In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music’s key stylistic developments, Kart sees jazz as a unique perpetual narrative--one in which musicians, their audiences, and the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined.

Because jazz arose from the collision of specific peoples under particular conditions, says Kart, its development has been unsually immediate, visible, and intense. Kart has reacted to and judged the music in a similarly active, attentive, and personal manner. His involvement and attention to detail are visible in these pieces: essays that analyze the supposed return to tradition that the music of Wynton Marsalis has come to exemplify; searching accounts of the careers of Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, and Lennie Tristano; and writing that explores jazz’s relationship to American popular song and examines the jazz musician’s role as actual and would-be social rebel.

Larry Kart has been music critic, editor, and book editor for the Chicago Tribune and Down Beat magazine.

Reviews

"A generous grab bag of essays and reviews by a shrewd listener with curious ears and an open mind."--Terry Teachout

"For over 35 years, Lawrence Kart has been one of the best and most insightful critics writing about jazz and popular music. A collection of his work is a long-overdue treat from an important voice in contemporary-music criticism."--Bill Kirchner, Composer-arranger, saxophonist, bandleader, jazz historian, producer, educator, and editor of The Oxford Companion to Jazz

"With great feeling, one of jazz’s most far-reaching and influential critics illuminates what jazz is, what it means (to its creators and to us listeners) and, crucially, what is valuable about it--what a joy to have this collection of essays at last."--John Litweiler, author of The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958

"Unlike many who’ve cogitated publicly about the great music called jazz, Larry Kart can hear, think and write. It’s an unbeatable combination, and this long overdue book is cause for rejoicing."--Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and author of Living with Jazz: A Dan Morgenstern Reader

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Jaco

The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius

An updated and expanded tribute to the world's greatest bass player!

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Chockful of new insights about Jaco's early years, along with new revelations about his tragic final days, this very special Anniversary Edition takes a greatly expanded look at the man who revolutionized his instrument and became one of the most potent and compelling forces in jazz during the 1970s.

Like his heroes Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, Jaco lived fast, made a huge impact, and died young — he was 35 when he was fatally beaten in 1987. During his meteoric rise from South Florida phenom to international jazz star, Jaco altered the course of modern music and opened a door that generations of bass players have since walked through. "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up," Jaco often said. As this book shows, he always did.

Includes a CD sampler featuring 40 minutes of newly revealed music from Jaco's pre-Weather Report years, along with spoken testimonials from Jaco's friends and colleagues. Also includes many new, never-before-seen photos acquired from the Pastorius estate.

Praise for the first edition:

"Milkowski has put together a consistently fascinating, impressively detailed, and very readable narrative."

— Jazziz

"Reading this book will make you want to go back and listen to Jaco's music again."

— Bass Player

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Miles Davis

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Running the Voodoo Down digs deep into Miles Davis's electric music, reminding us that this period encompassed the entire second half of the trumpeter's career, from 1967 until his death in 1991. Running the Voodoo Down examines this quarter-century of music in detail and discusses its importance to Davis's career and to the whole of American music and culture. Freeman places Davis's controversial 1960s and 1970s albums in a broader context than earlier critics have done, encouraging us to hear Miles's music alongside the work of Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and the trumpeter's own sidemen. Running the Voodoo Down reactivates the long-running debate surrounding this important and frequently misunderstood music, and offers longtime jazz fans and new listeners alike unexpected insights into Davis's unique genius.

"Much to the chagrin of anybody's jazz police, Miles, as Freeman righteously points out, spent half his career playing electronically jacked music. In Running the Voodoo Down the author provides this still maligned, mystifying, magisterial aspect of Miles's art with the kind of close reading, thick description, and metaphoric wit it so richly deserves. In the process Freeman strikes the right balance between curiosity, interrogation, comic relief, and, like Mary J., real love. Electric Miles has been awaiting a fresh arbiter with this much range, enthusiasm, ardor, and epiphanal wit."

—Greg Tate, author of Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience and the forthcoming Flyboy in the Buttermilk 2: The Greg Tate Reader
"Too many accounts of Miles Davis delve into mystique, not music. Miles, a trickster, encouraged that. Running the Voodoo Down digs deeper into Miles's electric works and his times, always with saucy outlook and sharp attention to new sounds and key players. Miles Davis, finally made more artist than attitude in his most controversial period, gets his poly-fusion sorcery set straight here."

—Milo Miles, music reviewer, Fresh Air with Terry Gross; contributing writer, Rolling Stone

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Stan Getz - Nobody Else But Me

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The creator of the unforgettable “Girl from Ipanema” tenor sax tone, this son of Ukranian immigrants took his unique sound through five decades of swing, cool, bossa and beyond. From Getz's teenage gigs with Dorsey, Goodman and Stan Kenton, fame with Woody Herman, years as a masterful bandleader, and struggles with drugs and the law, this biography tells the bittersweet story of one of our most beloved jazz musicians. This is the first book to focus on Getz's musical legacy, exploring the lightness of touch, lyricism and warm glow that marked his sound. It also gives insight into his skills as a consummate improviser, capable of playing with a musical, tonal and emotional range matched by few other musicians.

“We'd all sound like that if we could.”

– John Coltrane on Stan Getz

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Footprints

The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

Michelle Mercer - Author

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz.

Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop to pop, an intimate and moving biography, and a story of a man's struggle toward the full realization of his gifts and of himself.

Paperback $12.71

Hardcover $21.21

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Eighth Edition
R. M. Cook - Author
Brian Morton - Author

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings)

The leading guide to recorded jazz, now extensively revised

Music fans have been turning to this established reference through seven editions as a source of intelligent and insightful criticism. Fully updated to incorporate thousands of additional recordings, the eighth edition features artist biographies, detailed recording information with labels and catalog numbers, reliable and authoritative ratings, the authors’ personal selection of the essential recordings for every collection, an index of artists, and more.

$25.50

Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia

Richard Cook - Author

Essential reading for all jazz fans

Far more than an A–Z guide to the artists and bands who have shaped jazz, this invaluable resource also tracks the history of jazz and its changing styles and terminology. Whether readers want to know why Louis Armstrong was called Satchmo, what bebop is, or the difference between Gil Evans and Bill Evans—this wonderfully accessible book has all the answers.

Contains sixty pages of photos
Includes more than 2,000 entries on jazz artists and bands
Provides clear definitions of key terms such as swing and fusion

$25.50

Who Was Louis Armstrong?

Author Yona Zeblis McDonough
John O'Brien - Illustrator
Nancy Harrison - Illustrator

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs’ Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong’s own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

Paperback $4.24

Hardback $11.81

Marty Khan

Straight Ahead

A Comprehensive Guide to the Business of Jazz
Without Sacrificing Dignity or Artistic Integrity
by Marty Khan

Drawing on 35 years of experience in virtually every aspect of the jazz and fine arts business, Marty Khan has created a comprehensive guide for jazz musicians and professionals. 450 pages long and printed on high-quality 8 1/2 x 11 stock, this book offers highly detailed information and advice about everything they need to know to successfully navigate the difficult, mysterious, and often treacherous waters of the jazz business. It also focuses strongly on the Fine Arts business, and the role that jazz plays in relation to it

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Straight Ahead

A Comprehensive Guide to the Business of Jazz

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explains and de-mystifies everything involved in the business of recording and performing;
defines and clarifies the various roles and responsibilities of everyone with whom the artist will be dealing;
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Hal Galper

The Touring Musician: A Small-Business Approach to Booking Your Band on the Road

A clear road map guide to musicians traveling as solo performers or band members, this comprehensive book covers every aspect of preparing for and going on tour. Urging musicians to take control of their career, the author shoes how to apply sound business practices to band travel by evaluating assets, creating an action plan, researching negotiating, and booking venues, arranging transportation and hotels, managing personal and tour finances, and garnering publicity.

“The definitive tour manual….This book will help transform road worriers into road warriors. Hal has left no stone unturned when it comes to the business and mechanics of taking a band on tour. Great for musicians, road managers, and agents alike. Keep it on your desk and pack it in your suitcase….It’s a complete reference guide to the road.”—Michael Brecker

“Exhaustive in its detail [and] inspiring in that it empowers the reader to make headway through the complexities of the music business. Besides that, Hal’s humor, anecdotes, and friendly tone make the reading itself pleasurable. This has to be a milestone in how-to books!!”—David Liebman

“Brilliantly and meticulously compiled for surviving as a traveling musician….All of us can learn from the straightforward, sometimes hilarious, clarity of Hal Galper’s hindsight experiences. All who travel need to include this book in their personal libraries—even if they have management.”—Rufus Reid

With more than 80 recordings to his credit, 30 as a leader in his own right, pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author, and touring artist Hal Galper is best known for his work with such legends of jazz as Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderley, Roy Eldridge, Phil Woods, and Art Blakey. Graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1959, at the height of the bebop era, Hal Galper steadily built his reputation in the changing environment of jazz. He anchored such bands as the Slide Hampton Quartet, the Lee Konitz Duo, the Stan Getz Quartet, and many others.

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Don Breithaupt

By Don Breithaupt

About the Author

Don Breithaupt is a studio musician and songwriter based in Toronto. He is the co-author of Precious and Few: Pop Music in the Early '70s and Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70s. A Berklee College of Music alumnus and three-time Juno Award nominee, he has written extensively on music and film for the National Post. Don's web site is located here: www.breithauptbrothers.com/main.html

33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.

Synopsis:

Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it as an "ambitious, extended" work, the apotheosis of their anti-rock, anti-band, anti-glamour aesthetic. Populated by thirty-fi ve mostly jazz session players, Aja served up prewar song forms, mixed meters and extended solos to a generation whose idea of pop daring was Paul letting Linda sing lead once in a while. And, impossibly, it sold. Including an in-depth interview with Donald Fagen, this book paints a detailed picture of the making of a masterpiece.

Review:

"It was only a matter of time before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for whom Exile on Main Street or Electric Ladyland are as significant and worthy of study as The Catcher in the Rye or Middlemarch. The series... is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration." The New York Times Book Review

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"Ideal for the rock geek who thinks liner notes just aren't enough." Rolling Stone

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"These are for the insane collectors out there who appreciate fantastic design, well-executed thinking, and things that make your house look cool. Each volume in this series takes a seminal album and breaks it down in startling minutiae. We love these. We are huge nerds." Vice

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"A brilliant series... each one a word of real love." NME

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"Passionate, obsessive, and smart." Nylon

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"We... aren't naive enough to think that we're your only source for reading about music (but if we had our way... watch out). For those of you who really like to know everything there is to know about an album, you'd do well to check out Continuum's 33 1/3 series of books." Pitchfork

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DVD's

Legends Of Jazz

Legends Of Jazz (With Ramsey Lewis)

Extraordinary performances from the highly acclaimed jazz TV series!
This dynamic CD/DVD collection features riveting performances by some of the biggest stars of the hit jazz series presented on one of the most dazzling audio/visual recordings of the decade. LEGENDS OF JAZZ marks the first time in over 40 years that jazz has been the focus of a network television show bringing to life America’s most masterful art form.

The collection consists of DVD's and an audio CD, both featuring 13 unique performances from the highly acclaimed LEGENDS OF JAZZ television series hosted by Ramsey Lewis. All performances from HD masters are presented in 16 x 9 widescreen featuring Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Special DVD features include Customize Your Own Playlist, Photo Gallery, Artist Biographies, Web Links and more.

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Talking Jazz

The ultimate gift for the ultimate jazz fan!

New from musician, author, journalist Ben Sidran, Talking Jazz includes an eighty page booklet with essays from writers, critics and musicians, classic photos from Lee Tanner, and 24 compact discs featuring conversations with 60 jazz greats, recorded during a five year period for Sidran’s award winning NPR program "Sidran On Record".

Ben Sidran is also the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed 2003 memoir A Life in the Music.

Talking Jazz Book

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"It doesn't just capture history… it is history"—Michel Contat, Telerama, Paris

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Retail price: $299 + S/H For a limited time only - Special pre-release price: $249 + S/H

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PLUS! A very limited edition of TALKING JAZZ, the coffee table art book with 40 selected conversations and dozens of photographs. Retail price: $59 + S/H Special pre-release price: $39 + S/H

Collector editions of this
classic coffee table book are now available!

Recorded in this book are fifty conversations with musicians such as Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jay McShann, Red Rodney, Frank Morgan, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Jackie McLean, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, Jack DeJohnette, Don Cherry, Steve Gadd, and club owner Max Gordon. Also included is a rare interview with recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. Each of the fifty conversations conducted by author-musician Ben Sidran is illustrated with two duotone photographs of the featured musician.

Hardcover (9.5" x 12.25"). 210 pages.

Wynton Marsalis

DVD

Be prepared to enter a sanctuary of jazz with this production of, "In This House, On This Morning", recorded live in July 1992 at Munich Philharmonic Hall during the Munich Piano Summer. The Wynton Marsalis Septet takes jazz to a whole level of creativity and sound with their divine and inspired performances.

Following the structure of a customary African American Sunday service - right up to the dinner feast - the band lays out each number with the same passion and conviction. Even the song titles reflect the influence and connection between a profound religious moment and a powerful musical one. Soaring and upbeat one minute, meditative and melancholy the next, it isn't exactly gospel truth, but their music is undoubtedly a revelation.

Synopsis
A one-time trumpet prodigy whose skills with jazz and classical music would later establish him as one of the true legends of his generation, Wynton Marsalis arrived on the scene in 1982 to launch a jazz revival that eventually found him the first jazz musician ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. For this performance, Marsalis and his skilled Septet use the structure of an African-American church service to explore the remarkable connection between music and worship. With songs that include "The Lord's Prayer", "In the Sweet Embrace of Life", "Holy Ghost", and "Pot Blessed Dinner", this inspired performance truly offers a unique and uplifting listening experience. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

DVD $24.95

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