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Spirit Free: Abbey Lincoln Songbook
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What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while [... more]
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Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential ...
Political Philosophy and the question of black existence: Sylvia Wynter has said that it is the challenge of the writer to create new "forms of life." Lewis R. Gordon has done just that with "Existentia Africana." With chapters such [... more]
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Wish
Wish grabs your lapels from jump street with a daring interpretation generated by pianist Frank Kimbrough's chord selection and lifted to ecstasy by Shank's audacious vocal effects. Her influences are a rainbow--among them, Joni Mitchell, Edith Piaf, [... more]
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On How Life Is
The voice of Macy Gray is a wondrous thing. It can be as intimate as the wee small hours or as exciting as a packed nightclub; disarmingly sweet on one song, harsh and raspy on another. The obvious comparison is to the post-war Billie Holiday, but there [... more]
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Stir It Up: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz
It's a cliche that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that cliche takes on a real, but paradoxical, life: while music crisscrosses the globe with ever-greater speed, musicians [... more]
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The Hal Leonard Real Jazz Book: E-flat Edition
This unique, comprehensive collection features jazz material in a wide range of styles, with no song duplication from The Ultimate Jazz Fake Book! Includes: * Over 500 songs in all jazz styles, including standards, bebop, Latin and fusion * Original [... more]
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I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft
DIVA pioneering, seminal collection of original interviews with 20 of the world's leading black female performing artists/DIVDIVIn this often fascinating, nostalgic, and thoroughly moving collection of 20 interviews, author LaShonda Katrice Barnett [... more]
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Jazzwomen: Conversations with Twenty-One Musicians
Up close and personal interviews with women jazz artists, including Marian McPartland, Abbey Lincoln, Cassandra Wilson, and Diana Krall. [... more]
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Yours | AEC One Stop
When an older jazz singer warns a younger jazz singer that vocal jazz is an extremely crowded, brutally competitive field, it isn't just rhetoric -- vocal jazz like just about any other area of music has a lot more applicants than openings or [... more]
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Thunderbird | AEC One Stop
Cassandra Wilson's swinging for her own creative fences this time. The sultry, gentle, acoustic guitars on her last five recordings have been largely jettisoned for a more keyboard-and percussion -friendly approach -- which includes lots of programming [... more]
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Stir It Up
It's a cliche that the world is shrinking. As Gene Santoro sees it in his second collection of essays, music is one arena where that cliche takes on a real, but paradoxical, life: while music crisscrosses the globe with ever greater speed, musicians [... more]
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