Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)


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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook includes all 15 songs from the 2006 release, Jackson's first ever gospel album. Songs: Blessed Assurance * How Great Thou Art * I'll Fly Away * In the Garden * The Old Rugged Cross * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.




Insights In Jazz (e-book)


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Jazz Fest Memories


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Jazz Memories


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In date book format, with blank spaces to record appointments, etc.; features selected birthdays, festival openings, and other events in jazz history. Photographs of musicians on each facing page.




Jazz memories


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Le monde " Les photos d'Herman Leonard, celles d'Oscar Pettiford par exemple, racontent une histoire simple, une histoire en noir et blanc comme les notes sur une portée ou les touches d'un piano. " Elle " Une galerie de portraits-souvenirs exceptionnels à la gloire du jazz. " La république de Seine-et-Marne " De quoi faire se pâmer tous les amoureux du jazz ! " Libération (...) outre un manuel de l'esthétique " Swing Street " et un long poème visuel en hommage à la nostalgie be-bop, l'une des plus attachantes histoires du jazz des années 50. Le quotidien du médecin " Ses photographies en bichromie, réalisées à partir de 1948, dévoilent, au-delà des visages, par les attitudes et les mimiques, l'âme même des musiciens. L'Evénement du Jeudi " C'est tout bonnement à couper le souffle. " Le Nouvel Observateur " Confident des musiciens, Herman Leonard a su avec son appareil voler un peu de leur secret. (...) Du jazz plein les yeux. Photo " Le jazz avait déjà ses poètes, ses historiens, ses techniciens, il a trouvé son photographe. Herman Leonard donne aux amateurs du monde entier la vision concrète des hommes qu'ils admirent. " L'Express " De tous les photographes du jazz, Herman Leonard, un Américain vivant à Paris, est sans conteste le plus raffiné. " Photo Reporter " Ses images ont la densité émotionnelle du concert " live " et la rigueur du studio. Tout simplement fabuleux : il ne manque pas une veine saillante, une volute de fumée à la légende passionnée des " jazz-heros. " Paris Match " Des documents d'une beauté exceptionnelle. " Jazz magazine " Je ne peux qu'évoquer la finesse du grain, la texture précieuse de ces clichés. Souligner combien Leonard nous révèle la photogénie du jazz. Peut-être parce que tout ce jeu de noirs et blancs se répondant et s'impliquant mutuellement, emblématise la trame même du jazz cependant qu'il assure la structuration lumineuse de la photographies. " Smithsonian Institution- Washington " De toute évidence, votre travail mérite d'être présenté à la Smithsonian Institution en même temps que d'autres trésors nationaux tels que les manuscrits de Duke Ellington, la trompette de Dizzy Gillepsie et les violons de Stradivarius ! Nous serions très heureux et honorés d'établir une 'Collection Herman Leonard' réunissant vos photos. " Sunday Times- Londres " Herman Leonard ne se trouva pas seulement là où il fallait au bon moment, il a saisi la richesse tonale et l'aspect fugitif du jazz comme nul autre photographe actuel. Design Week- Londres " Il n'y a aucun doute, Leonard est maître de la photographie en noir et blanc. Ses superbes compositions, aux subtiles gradations de lumière, ressuscitent l'époque du be-bop, où les jeunes créateurs de cet art novateur et vigoureux défièrent le monde de la musique. " Russell Davies-BBC Arts Review " Plus que tout autre photographe, Leonard a saisi les géants du jazz des années 40 et 50 dans un style rendant avec une extraordinaire intensité les grands moments de l'histoire de cette musique. " Creative arts- Los Angeles " Billie Holiday chantait le blues, Dizzy Gillepsie sidérait le public du Royal Roost. Herman Leonard a préservé pour l'éternité chaque note incandescente et nuance de cette grande époque du jazz. " People Magazine-New York " il existe peu de remarquables photographes du jazz des années 40 et 50, mais Herman Leonard en est le plus extraordinaire. " Washington Review-Washington " Photo après photo, le spectateur est frappé par cet ineffable 'moment de vérité' que Leonard a pu saisir. " Quincy Jones s'adressant à des musiciens à une séance d'enregistrement de Michael Jackson " Ce type fait avec son appareil photo ce que vous faites avec vos instruments ! " Ray Brown-Contrebassiste " Herman est le Charlie Parker des photographes ! " Miles Davis " Herman ? C'est lui le meilleur ! " Dizzy Gillepsie " Peut-on aller plus loin ? "




Tallinn '67 Jazz Festival


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Tallinn ’67 Jazz Festival: Myths and Memories explores the legendary 1967 jazz gathering that centered Tallinn, Estonia as the jazz capital of the USSR and marked both the pinnacle of a Soviet jazz awakening as well as the end of a long series of evolutionary jazz festivals in Estonia. This study offers new insights into what was the largest Soviet jazz festival of its time through an abundance of collected materials – including thousands of pages of archival documents, more than a hundred hours of interviews and countless media reviews and photographs – while grappling with the constellation of myths integral to jazz discourse in an attempt to illuminate ‘how it really was’. Accounts from musicians, jazz fans, organisers and listeners bring renewed life to this transcultural event from more than half a century ago, framed by scholarly discussions contextualizing the festival within the closed conditions of the Cold War. Tallinn ’67 Jazz Festival details the lasting international importance of this confluence of Estonian, Soviet and American jazz and the ripple effects it spread throughout the world.




I Remember Jazz


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Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from New Orleans to New York, from Paris to Singapore -- and survived to tell the story. The result has been a lifetime of friendship with some of the music world's most engaging and rambunctious personalities. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on this unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz. In a style that is always entertaining, unabashedly idiosyncratic, and frequently irreverent, he writes about Jelly Roll Morton and Bunny Berigan, Eubie Blake and Bobby Hackett, Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong, and more than fifty others. Rose was only twenty-two when he was first introduced to Jelly Roll Morton. He quickly discovered that they had more in common than a love of music. Something of a peacock at that age, Rose was dressed in a "polychromatic, green-striped suit, pink shirt with a detachable white collar, dubonnet tie, buttonhole, and handkerchief" -- and so was Jelly Roll. About Eubie Blake, Rose notes that he was not only a superb musician but also a notorious ladies' man. Rose recalls asking the noted pianist when he was ninety-seven, "How old do you have to be before the sex drive goes?" Blake's reply: "You'll have to ask someone older than me." Once in 1947, Rose was asked to assemble a group of musicians to play at a reception to be hosted by President Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C. The musicians included Muggsy Spanier, George Brunies, Pee Wee Russell, Pops Foster, and Baby DOdds. But the hit of the evening was President Truman himself, who joined the group on the piano to play "Kansas City Kitty" and the "Missouri Waltz." I Remember Jazz is replete with such amusing and affectionate anecdotes -- vignettes that will delight all fans of the music. Al Rose does indeed remember jazz. And for that we can all be grateful.




Jazz Memories


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Unfinished Blues--


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"Arrangements and productions": p. 177-179.




A Life in Jazz


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As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orchestras of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, Barker is uniquely placed to give an authoritative but personal view of jazz history. In this book he discusses his life in music, from the children's 'spasm' bands of the seventh ward of New Orleans, through the experience of brass bands and jazz funerals involving his grandfather, Isidore Barbarin, to his early days on the road with the blues singer Little Brother Montgomery. Later he goes on to discuss New York, and the jazz scene he found there in 1930. His work with Jelly Roll Morton, as well as the lesser-known bands of Fess Williams and Albert Nicholas, is covered before a full account of his years with Millinder, Benny Carter and Calloway, including a description of Dizzy Gillespie's impact on jazz, is given. The final chapters discuss Barker's career from the late 1940s. Starting with the New York dixieland scene at Ryan's and Condon's he talks of his work with Wilbur de Paris, James P. Johnson and This is Jazz, before discussing his return to New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Museum. A collection of Barker's photographs,