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Chapters: Django Bates, Dave Holland, John Dankworth, Iain Ballamy, Mike Westbrook, Richard Rodney Bennett, Neil Ardley, Leonard Feather, Peter King, Guy Barker, John L. Walters, Jason Rebello, Daryl Runswick, Steve Gregory, Ian Hamer, Julia Biel, Eddie Parker, Richard Iles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 90. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Django Bates (born October 2, 1960), is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra. Django Bates was born in Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom. He rose to prominence in Loose Tubes, a jazz orchestra which was considered one of the UK's most exciting and inspirational groups of the 1980s. He founded his small group Human Chain in 1979. In 1991, he started his own 19-piece jazz orchestra Delightful Precipice. He also put together the Powder Room Collapse Orchestra (which recorded Music for the Third Policeman), and created Circus Umbilicus, a musical circus show. In recent years, Bates has concentrated on writing large scale compositions on commission (see list below). These include "Dream Kitchen" for percussionist Evelyn Glennie, "Fine Frenzy" for the Shobhana Jeyasingh Dance Company, and a piano concerto for Joanna MacGregor and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra entitled "What It's Like to be Alive". He also wrote the first ever concerto for electric keyboard entitled "2000 Years Beyond UNDO", which was performed at the millennium Barbican Festival. He has worked closely with director Lucy Bailey on several theatre projects, including Gobbledegook for The Gogmagogs, Baby Doll, (Birmingham Rep, National Theatre, Albery Theatre), Stairs to the Roof (Chicheste...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6882078 ... Read more

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11 original compositions based on various jazz styles - a fun supplement for any upper elementary player. ... Read more

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Chapters: Theo Jörgensmann, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Markus Burger, Mathias Claus, Rainer Brüninghaus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born 1948 in Bottrop, Germany) is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975. Theo Jörgensmann belongs to the 2nd generation of European free jazz musicians. He was part of the clarinet Renaissance in the jazz and improvising music scene. Jörgensmann is one of a few clarinet players for whom unaccompanied solo recordings are a significant part of his work. He started to play clarinet when he was 18 years old. From 1969 until 1972 Jörgensmann took private lessons from a music teacher at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. At the same time he started working with fellow musicians from the Ruhr industrial area. During this time he was also a chemical laboratory assistant. After a one and half year hitch in the German Army Jörgensmann worked with handicapped children and studied social pedagogics, but he never brought it to a conclusion. Since 1975 he has been a professional musician. During a career spanning three decades as a free improviser Jörgensmann has worked with (among many others) Mike Richmond, Barre Phillips, Kent Carter, John Lindberg, Charlie Mariano, Wilber Morris, Eric Vloeimans, Jeanne Lee, John Fischer, Vincent Chancey, Kenny Wheeler, Paul McCandless and Lee Konitz. From 1975 to 1977 he headed the group Clarinet Contrast; a group which frontline consisted only of clarinets. In this group played Perry Robinson, Hans Kumpf, Bernd Konrad and Michel Pilz. At the end of the 1970s he was leader of one of West Germany's best-known jazz groups. At the beginning of the 1980s he took part in a Clarinet Summit (...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7362114 ... Read more

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Title: 2008 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award recipients announced: honorees to be recognized at ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame ceremonies on June 17 in New York City.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Latin Beat Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2008
Publisher: Latin Beat Magazine
Volume: 18Issue: 3Page: 11(1)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (pronounced ; October 21, 1917 January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, and Jon Faddis. In addition to featuring in the epochal moments in bebop, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of what early-jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton referred to as the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. Dizzy's beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children of James and Lottie Gillespie. James was a local bandleader, so instruments were made available to Dizzy. He started to play the piano at the age of four. His father had already died when Dizzy was only ten years old. Dizzy taught himself how to play the trombone as well as the trumpet by the age of twelve. From the night he heard his idol, Roy Eldridge, play on the radio, he dreamed of becoming a jazz musician. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in Laurinburg, North Carolina but turned it down to start his music career. Dizzy's first professional job was with the Frank Fairfax Orchestra in 1935, after which he joined the respective orchestras of Edgar Hayes and Teddy Hill, essentially replacing Roy Eldridge as first trump... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=54403 ... Read more

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Chapters: George Gershwin, Jelly Roll Morton, Clarence Williams, Bill Evans, Emile Christian, Armand J. Piron, Steve Lewis, Quincy Jones, Bradley Joseph, John Serry, Sr., Wynton Marsalis, Tomasz Stańko, Wayne Shorter, Ryo Kawasaki, Teo Macero, Mary Lou Williams, George Russell, La Palabra, Egberto Gismonti, Franz Koglmann, Louis Banks, Surendran Reddy, Krzysztof Komeda, Ahmad Jamal, Paul Grabowsky, Stan Tracey, Erik Van Der Luijt, Howie Smith, Jason Robinson, Catherine Delaunay, Michel Colombier, Doudou Gouirand, Jean-Michel Soupraya, Terje Rypdal, Benny Golson, Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, Michał Urbaniak, John Doheny, Butch Morris, Jeremy Monteiro, Brian Kelly, Clarice Assad, Lionel Loueke, Trilok Gurtu, Graham Collier, Johnny Alegre, Ray Noble, Hall Overton, Peter Derose, Fred Ho, Al Lowe, Ernesto Rodrigues, Vagif Mustafazadeh, Fred Sturm, Michael Joseph Smith, Roger Frampton, Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells, Daniel Tinte, John Sangster, Chris Potter, Nils Petter Molvær, Mercer Ellington, Julian Argüelles, Herbie Nichols, Julius Hemphill, Meade Lux Lewis, Bob Mintzer, Yasunao Tone, Bernard Peiffer, Salah Ragab, Petr Kroutil, Noble Sissle, Slam Stewart, John Handy, Weasel Walter, André Hodeir, Michel Wintsch, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Ann Ronell, Eric Darius, Andy Hamilton, Jim Mcneely, Alon Yavnai, Chris Brubeck, Toufic Farroukh, Mathias Claus, Dolo Coker, Pharez Whitted, Alton Merrell Jr, Teddy Charles, Maria Schneider, Alec Dankworth, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Trygve Seim, Kris Defoort, Daniel Humair, Michael Gibbs, Gil Mellé, Ian Hamer, Peter Boothman, Buster Harding, Rodney Franklin, Silje Nergaard, Dave Eshelman, Chris Mentens, Chris Geith, Bảo Vang, Ed Neumeister, Hayden Chisholm, Phil Baxter, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Jimmy Mundy, Steve Lodder, George Garanian, Antoine Hervé, Oliver Lake, Chris Joris, Jasser Haj Youssef, Harry Betts, Jon Jang, Robertinho Silva, Rudi Wilfer, Ram Ramirez, Jamie Mitges, Christian Muthspiel, Charles Loos, Don Ove...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6740971 ... Read more

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Chapters: Michel Colombier, Jean-Luc Fillon, Geoffroy de Masure, Édouard Ferlet, Barney Wilen, Claude Bolling, Didier Levallet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939, Lyon November 14, 2004), was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor. Colombier was born in Lyon, and began his musical education at the age of six. By age fourteen, he had discovered jazz and improvisation and was performing with small combos and big bands. At twenty-two, he was hired as Musical Director of Barclay Records, and his freshman assignment was to arrange Charles Aznavour's first album in English for release in the United States. He composed the music for "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" at the Comédie-Française, his only creation for stage. Michel entered the world of ballet with one of Maurice Béjart's masterpieces, "Messe Pour Le Temps Present", co-written with avant-garde composer and musique concrete pioneer Pierre Henry. Another Colombier-Henry collaboration, "Psyché Rock", was adapted as the theme music for the animated TV series Futurama. Colombier went on to co-write for many years with Serge Gainsbourg. He collaborated with some of the artists in his native France including Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Fontaine, Jean-Luc Ponty, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, and Stephane Grappelli. In 1964 and 1968 he conducted the orchestra in the Eurovision Song Contest, both times for Monaco's entries. Petula Clark chose him as her Musical Director and invited him to come with her to the United States. In addition to arranging her material, he co-wrote with her a number of songs. She introduced him to Herb Alpert of A ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Escalator Over the Hill, Communications, Relativity Suite. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Escalator over the Hill (or EOTH) is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a "chronotransduction" with "words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. Escalator over the Hill is more than two hours long and was recorded in three years, 1968 to 1971. It was originally released as a triple LP box which also contained a booklet with lyrics, photos and profiles of the musicians. Side six of the original LPs ended in a locked groove, the final track "...And It's Again" continuing infinitely on manual record players. (For the CD reissue, the hum is allowed to play for over a half-hour before slowly fading out.) In 1997, a live version of Escalator over the Hill, re-orchestrated by Jeff Friedman, was performed for the first time in Cologne, Germany. In 1998, "Escalator" toured Europe. Another live performance took place in May 2006 in Essen, Germany. The musicians involved in the original recording play in various combinations, covering a wide range of musical genres, from Kurt Weill's theater music, to free jazz, rock and Indian music. Writer Stuart Broomer considers this to be a summing up "much of the creative energy that was loose between 1968 and 1972". Viva acts as narrator. Jack Bruce also appears on bass and vocals. Among the vocalists is a young (and still relatively unknown) Linda Ronstadt, in addition to Jeanne Lee, Paul Jones, Carla Bley, Don Preston, Sheila Jordan, and Bley's and Mantler's then-4-year-old daughter Karen Mantler. In 2006, Paul Haines' daughter, Canadian musician ...http://booksllc.net/?id=3755810 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bruno Råberg, Palle Danielsson, Nils Janson, Magnus Lindgren, Lars Gulliksson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bruno Råberg born July 13, 1954, is a Swedish-born jazz bassist, composer and music professor based in Boston. BRUNO RÅBERG is an internationally renowned bass player and composer. Since coming to the US from his native Sweden in 1981, he has made six recordings as a leader, about 30 as a sideman, and has performed numerous world-class artists. Some of the distinguished musicians Råberg has performed/recorded with include Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Sam Rivers, Billy Pierce, Donny McCaslin, Billy Hart, Bob Moses, Mick Goodrick, Ben Monder, Bruce Barth, Jim Black, Matt Wilson, Bob Mintzer, and John Medeski. Tours have taken Råberg throughout Europe, Scandinavia, USA, Japan, Africa, and Central America, and to jazz festivals such as Pori, Umbria, Monterey, Nancy, Bologna, Graz, Stockholm, Boston, and Cape Town. Råberg is currently leading several constellations of his own: the Lifelines Quartet with Chris Cheek, Ben Monder, and Ted Poor; the Bruno Råberg Nonet featuring Allan Chase, Phil Grenadier, Jeff Galindo, and others; and Ascensio, a quartet with Allan Chase, Phil Grenadier, and Marcello Pellitteri. Bruno Råberg grew up in the countryside of Sweden. At 20, he was drafted by Swedish trombone virtuoso Eje Thelin. He stayed with Thelins group for 4 years and toured throughout Europe and the US, performing at the Monterey Jazz in 1976. During his 20s, Råberg performed and recorded with numerous renowned Swedish and European artists such as Bobo Stenson, Monica Zetterlund, Zpigniew Seifert, Nils Landgren, Lennart Åberg, and Ulf Wakenius. In 1981, Råberg left his performing career in Europe to come to the USA, thanks to a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21196991 ... Read more

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Chapters: Chris Mcgregor, Dudu Pukwana, Winston Ngozi Mankunku. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christopher McGregor (24 December 1936 26 May 1990), was a South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa. McGregor grew up in the then Transkei (now part of the Eastern Cape Province) where his father was headmaster at a Church of Scotland mission institution called Blythswood. Here he was exposed to the music of the local amaXhosa people. This music is a rich and varied music which pervaded every aspect of life - from formal rituals to the casual activities and encounters of everyday life, like herding cattle or just walking home in the evening. Music was everywhere. And this music, as explained in Dave Dargie's seminal book Xhosa Music, is complex. Dargie mentions the following as examples of this complexity which might be seen to have influenced McGregor in his own music, both as composser/arranger and as band leader: "... a great number of style characteristics are to be found: relating not only to harmony and scale, but to melody, structure and phrasing, form, rhythm, instrumentation, singing techniques, and so on." In his book Chasing the Vibration Graham Lock quotes McGregor saying: "I have this strong imaginative reference to African village music, and the thing I know about that music is that it has a strong centre. It builds up, a lot of people do things together that they know." After school and a stint in the merchant navy training academy The General Botha at Gordon's Bay in the Western Cape, McGregor enrolled at the South African College of Music, then headed by Professor Eric Chisholm. Here McGregor was exposed to a different set of influences, during the day Bela Bartok and Arnold Schoenberg,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1396968 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ketil Bjørnstad, Per Husby, Frode Thingnæs, Bugge Wesseltoft, Frode Fjellheim, Jon Balke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ketil Bjørnstad (born 25 April 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz". He is an artist on the ECM record label, but has also published some 20 books (predominantly novels) and a number of poetry and essay collections. He has collaborated with other ECM artists, including cellist David Darling, drummer Jon Christensen, and guitarist Terje Rypdal. Ketil Bjørnstad was trained as a classical pianist and studied with Amalie Christie and Robert Riefling, and also in London and Paris. He showed great talent at a young age, and won the title of "Youth Piano Master" in 1966 and 1968. When he was 16, he made his debut as a concert pianist with Béla Bartók's third piano concerto. Bjørnstad subsequently turned towards jazz and rock, in close cooperation with the guitarist Terje Rypdal, bassist Arild Andersen, drummer Jon Christensen and the American cellists David Darling. He has recorded more than 50 albumss, for labels which include Universal, Kirkelig Kulturverksted and ECM. He is particularly famous for the work "Living Patagonia" (1978), which features Cornelis Vreeswijk and Lill Lindfors. His most famous song is "Summer night by the fjord", sung by Ellen Westberg Andersen. Bjørnstad has released discs with a range of artists including Anneli Drecker, Kristin Asbjørnsen, Kari Bremnes, Lill Lindfors, Randi Stene, Lynni Tree Cream, Frøydis Armand, the Stavanger ensemble, Anders Wyller, Per Vollestad and Ole Paus. He is internationally known for his Universal and ECM recordings, i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1386234 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hermeto Pascoal, Sérgio Mendes, Luciana Souza, Leny Andrade, Jovino Santos-Neto, Walter Wanderley, Heraldo Do Monte, Théo de Barros. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sérgio Santos Mendes (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil) is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace who regularly performs vocals for her husband and can also be heard on his 2006 version of the song Mas Que Nada with Black Eyed Peas. The child of a physician in Niterói, Brazil, Mendes attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was taking off. Mendes played with Antonio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil. Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961. Touring Europe and the United States, Mendes recorded albums with Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann and played Carnegie Hall. Mendes moved to the U.S. in 1964 and cut two albums under the Sergio Mendes ... Read more

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New, expanded and updated edition ofthe bestcomprehensive survey of who's who of British jazz musicians.Over 900 biographies detail the work of musicians from every era of British jazz, ranging from those who played professionally before1920 at the dawn of jazz in Britain, through to today's young stars.Much new information is revealed on the early careers of those who became famous and the chronological listing of events in each subject's life sheds new light on the development of jazz in Britain. ... Read more

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A Must Have
If you are into swing, this book on the English swing bands is a must have.So, toss an LP/CD on the player, grab the book and just groove for a bit.Hotcha!!

The Author keeps up his standard
Really the only recomendation this book needs is that the author adheresto the standard he set in "Who's Who in Jazz - Storyville to SwingStreet." If you have read this book and have any interest in BritishJazz, Swing and/or Dance Music this book is your next purchase. ... Read more