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Post by nicknick on Jan 27, 2018 15:48:56 GMT
Colin Harper – Echoes From Then: Glimpses of John McLaughlin 1959-1975 (2017). An absolute must have for all McLaughlin’s fans (I’m in the list for ages). This is actually an addition to Harper’s previous excellent book Bathed in Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond (2014).
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Post by nicknick on Feb 1, 2018 17:57:58 GMT
Janet Coleman and Al Young - Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs (1989). A small fragment from Janet Coleman's part where she tells about Mingus's own book:
[Mingus]… pulled out several reams of manuscript. Judy (his fourth wife) had been typing it. It was… named either Half Yaller Nigger or Half Yaller Schitt-Colored Nigger, he hadn’t decided which yet, though he was pretty sure no white man would let him use any of those words in print. And so he had a safety title too, Beneath the Underdog, the social situation in America, he explained, of a half-yaller schitt-colored nigger. My friend and I read the manuscript into the night. We were amazed. It was a jumble, a torrent, it was like James Joyce, jazzy Joyce, and it was terrific. It had puns and wordplay, and a schizophrenic narrator, Baby A and Baby B.
In the square world I worked in, publishing, the Mingus manuscript was something of a special curio of jewel. McGraw-Hill had it under option for quite a while, and there was a succession of ambitious male editors. Some of them were black. Whenever there was a possibility for publication, Mingus seemed to balk. Jason Epstein, the big kingpin at Random House, was interested in the manuscript until he heard a few of Mingus’s conditions: a white binding with gold letters, a book that could be mistaken for the Bible. Well, fuck him, Jason Epstein said. It is hard to estimate how many people finally worked on the copy, hacks and strangers, people who appealed to the author (and his various editors) because they could spell. I saw it once again in 1965 or 1966, and even then, before it reached its last editor, Nel King, it had been altered, whitened up beyond repair.
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Post by gregorythefish on Feb 1, 2018 18:45:25 GMT
i've read mingus/mingus. a very nice read, if I may say so.
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Post by nicknick on Feb 7, 2018 19:09:41 GMT
Keith Chadwick - Bill Evans: Everything Happens To Me (Backbeat Books, 2002). The most beautiful and best illustrated book on the pianist I've ever seen.
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Post by nicknick on Feb 10, 2018 4:08:08 GMT
it's here where I found: SOLD OUT FROM SOURCE Buon giorno, Dottore. Just to let you know that Marhaug Forlag's website has now announced the following: Second edition in production. Expected to ship mid-March. Pre-order now.
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Post by dottorjazz on Feb 10, 2018 7:05:21 GMT
thanks nick, mail sent.
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Post by gst on Feb 11, 2018 23:16:12 GMT
Ordered as well. Not sure how I missed this the first time.
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Post by nicknick on Feb 14, 2018 13:58:31 GMT
Vladimir Simosko & Barry Tepperman - Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography and Discography (1974). This summer we will celebrate 90th Anniversary of Eric Dolphy, and it's a shame that so far we have only this tiny book about the great musician and composer. The release of another long awaited book by Brian Morton - Gone in the Air: The Life and Music of Eric Dolphy - has again been postponed until 1st October 2019.
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Post by dottorjazz on Feb 14, 2018 15:16:55 GMT
really a shame, let's see if a major study comes around, Morton's will be 195 pgs. in the (incomplete) discography of this book, there's an interesting feature I can't remember in other books. all tracks are followed by the instrument played and also tracks in which Dolphy doesn't solo. for example there's a session on Decca, leader Sammy Davis, in which Eric playes but ain't soloing.
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Post by gregorythefish on Feb 14, 2018 17:44:40 GMT
i'm buying that dolphy book.
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Post by gst on Feb 14, 2018 18:03:58 GMT
Vladimir Simosko & Barry Tepperman - Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography and Discography (1974). This summer we will celebrate 80th Anniversary of Eric Dolphy, and it's a shame that so far we have only this tiny book about the great musician and composer. The release of another long awaited book by Brian Morton - Gone in the Air: The Life and Music of Eric Dolphy - has again been postponed until 1st October 2019. I was just thinking that as well. Perhaps his life isn't as outlandish as some of his counterparts is part of the problem?
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Post by nicknick on Feb 14, 2018 18:08:05 GMT
I believe Eric Dolphy's fans may be interested in checking two wonderful albums by German alto saxophonist and bass clarinetist Silke Eberhard (she is from Berlin where Eric's life ended): Potsa Lotsa - The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwekstatt, 2010) 2CD and Potsa Lotsa Plus Plays Love Suite by Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerksstatt, 2014).
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Post by nicknick on Feb 15, 2018 12:35:22 GMT
I was just thinking that as well. Perhaps his life isn't as outlandish as some of his counterparts is part of the problem? Perhaps. I think other part of the problem is that time is lost and most of important witnesses who knew Eric personally also transmigrated into a better world.
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Post by saxoblues on Feb 16, 2018 8:34:51 GMT
13 short stories on 13 different possible deaths of Albert Ayler( English Version :13 Miniatures For Albert Ayler )
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Post by nicknick on Feb 16, 2018 8:46:06 GMT
Saxoblues, I also mentioned this French book last October HERE and HERE. So I'm not aware about English version of the book. Have I missed something?
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