Is Jazz Dead?: (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)
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  • Mixed Bag
Is Jazz Dead?: (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)
Stuart Nicholson
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Binding: Paperback

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Is Jazz Dead? examines the state of jazz in America at the turn of the 21st century. In a recent 10-part documentary on Public Television, Ken Burns spent 8 out of 10 programs on jazz before World War II; only the last 2 shows covered five decades of creative work. Musicians themselves are returning to New Orleans, Swing, and Bebop styles, while the work of the '60s avant-garde and even '70s and '80s jazz-rock is roundly ignored. Meanwhile, global jazz musicians are creating new and exciting music that is just starting to be heard in the United States, offering a viable alternative to the rampant conservatism here. Stuart Nicholson's thought-provoking book offers an analysis of the American scene, how it came to be so stagnant, and what it can do to create a new level of creativity. This book is bound to be controversial among jazz purists and musicians; it will undoubtedly generate discussion about how jazz should grow now that it has become a recognized part of American musical history. Is Jazz Dead? dares to ask the question on all jazz fan's minds: Can jazz survivor as a living medium? And, if so, how?

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag.......2006-04-29

I love the first three chapters including his discussions on the Young Lions, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Wynton Marsalis/Albert Murray/Stanley Crouch debate. The author provides an interesting Eurpoean slant to the book. However, although relevant to his thesis, his discussions of Eurpoean musicians gets bogged down, as does his advocation for the public funding of jazz.
Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
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  • Jelly Roll Morton--Only in America!
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Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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In a rich, fast-moving, and fascinating narrative, Pastras traces Morton's artistic development as a pianist, composer, and bandleader. Among many other topics, Pastras discusses the complexities of racial identity for Morton and his circle, his belief in voodoo, his relationships with women, his style of performance, and his roots in black musical traditions. Not only does Dead Man Blues restore to the historical record invaluable information about one of the great innovators of jazz, it also brings to life one of the most colorful and fascinating periods of musical transformation on the West Coast.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Jelly Roll Morton--Only in America!.......2003-02-12

WOW. After Alan Lomax's _Mr._Jelly_Roll_, this is THE book to get to understand the most boastful musical genius to grace the 1st half of the 20th Century. Jelly Roll Morton claimed to be the "Father of Jazz", and it seems certain that if he wasn't it's father, he was at least waiting in the delivery room at it's birth. This book covers the critical "lost years" of 1916-1922, and has a lot of material that escaped Mr. Lomax's attention when his book was published in 1950--in 53 years, enough has surfaced to justify a treatment like this, and Morton certainly deserves it. Until the transcriptions of his complete Library of Congress Recordings are published, this and Mr. Lomax's book are crucial to understanding this almost-forgotten genius, to whom modern music owes so much.

4 out of 5 stars Insight into a Complex Man.......2001-06-26

Jelly Roll Morton, the self proclaimed "inventor of Jazz," remains one of the most complex figures in American music. Largely forgotten by the time of his death, Morton had pioneered the early New Orleans style jazz on record and seemed to be on the comeback trail and to be experimenting with the dominant swing style of the 1930s. Pastras provides an insight into Morton by examining his years on the West Coast(roughly the late teens to early twenties and then again in the early 1940s). The first period was among Morton's most satisfying both musically and personally, and the second seems to indicate an attempt at a comeback. Pastras sheds light on Morton's relationships with his godmother and his long time companaion Anita Gonzales and in the process examines the roles played by voodoo and "passing for white" among the Creole community. While the contributions of this book are many, one of the main thrusts is the often conflicting and, at times untrustworthy, nature of oral history as evidenced by Alan Lomax's previous oral history biography of Morton. In the end Lomax's book is more folklore than history. However this does not negate Lomax's contribution, but rather illuminates the pitfalls of not balancing oral history with other evidence if such evidence exists. It is Morton as he wished to present himself to the world. Pastras' text is not only interesting but instructive to those dealing with oral history, but the average reader may want to start with Lomax's book and then move to Pastras' more compelling investigation.
Dead Jazz Guys and Other Stories
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    Dead Jazz Guys and Other Stories
    Phil Kawana
    Manufacturer: Huia Publishers
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: 0908975287

    Book Description

    Exploration, experimentation, exultation… Dead Jazz Guys, electronically resurrected to perform their musical miracles just for him and Lee. He wondered how long a dead man could play. Notes slithered through the room and out across the water like a mirrored cobra, flexing and twisting, reflecting back the light of the city…

    Dead Jazz Guys is an often very funny, sometimes very bleak, unnervingly sharp colleciton of post-1984 New Zealand tales. The sotries are colorful, the characters mostly brown - although some are white and one is black, and bitter. The characters are hard cases, fools, `ordinary people'; out on the town, in bands, in work schemes, in trouble.

    Dead Jazz Guys is a first collection of short stories by Phil Kawana of Ngati Ruanui and Ngati Kahungunu, an award-winner in the inaugural Huia Short Story Awards 1995.
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    Nick Tosches's new book is aptly titled. On the surface a biography of obscure Southern minstrel singer and blackface comedian Emmett Miller (1900-62), his passionate text at its core is another installment in Tosches's lifelong inquiry into the nature of American popular music. It's a place, in his view, "where dead voices gather" as artists chaotically and indiscriminately pluck tunes out of sources ranging from English ballads to slave spirituals and fashion lyrics from half-remembered commercial releases heard once on the radio or archetypal stories told so often that no one knows who first gave them voice. Miller was a "yodeling blues singer" who performed in blackface, adhering to the minstrelsy tradition that was in its death throes by the time he had his brief moment of fame in the 1920s. Tosches, who first heard a Miller recording in 1974, characterizes him as "one of the strangest and most stunning stylists ever to record ... the last mutant mongrel emanation of old and dead and dying styles, the first mutant mongrel emanation of a style far more reckless and free than the cool of scat." As this sentence suggests, Tosches's prose has calmed down hardly at all since his first book, Country, was published in 1977; you either love his freeform approach or it drives you nuts. Admirers will relish his marvelously dense and detailed portrait of pop music's crazy-quilt complexity, enriched by Tosches's encyclopedic knowledge of American culture. And he boldly stares the race question in the face, though not everyone will be convinced by his assertion that "it is the shared umbilicus of fantasy that sustains and unites ... the polar temperaments of minstrelsy and rap." This is another genre-smashing work from a writer as eccentric, provoking, and wholly original as the music he loves. --Wendy Smith

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    Nick Tosches's new book is aptly titled. On the surface a biography of obscure Southern minstrel singer and blackface comedian Emmett Miller (1900-62), his passionate text at its core is another installment in Tosches's lifelong inquiry into the nature of American popular music. It's a place, in his view, "where dead voices gather" as artists chaotically and indiscriminately pluck tunes out of sources ranging from English ballads to slave spirituals and fashion lyrics from half-remembered commercial releases heard once on the radio or archetypal stories told so often that no one knows who first gave them voice. Miller was a "yodeling blues singer" who performed in blackface, adhering to the minstrelsy tradition that was in its death throes by the time he had his brief moment of fame in the 1920s. Tosches, who first heard a Miller recording in 1974, characterizes him as "one of the strangest and most stunning stylists ever to record ... the last mutant mongrel emanation of old and dead and dying styles, the first mutant mongrel emanation of a style far more reckless and free than the cool of scat." As this sentence suggests, Tosches's prose has calmed down hardly at all since his first book, Country, was published in 1977; you either love his freeform approach or it drives you nuts. Admirers will relish his marvelously dense and detailed portrait of pop music's crazy-quilt complexity, enriched by Tosches's encyclopedic knowledge of American culture. And he boldly stares the race question in the face, though not everyone will be convinced by his assertion that "it is the shared umbilicus of fantasy that sustains and unites ... the polar temperaments of minstrelsy and rap." This is another genre-smashing work from a writer as eccentric, provoking, and wholly original as the music he loves. --Wendy Smith

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    3 out of 5 stars Erm...Nick, ya might want to take a research methods course.......2006-07-18

    Fact-wise, terrific: Tosches piles 'em on, as usual. He's a unique, gifted writer, even if one doubts certain of his conclusions, as one does in this book.

    However, he's too disingenuous by half or more when it comes to his difficulties in regards "finding" Emmett Miller: after dissing academic critics and their lofty takes on the matter at hand, he segues into his difficulty in locating whether in fact "Emmett Miller" existed under that name at all, after pages of discussion about how he agonized over pinning down the man's existence (actually a cohort located the pertinent records); one can't help but wonder how, since the approximate locale (Macon GA) was a given, Tosches didn't do what any academic researcher would have done immediately: in lieu of a birth certificate, immediately check the census records, and the school records. He could have easily found the info 20 years ago, at the start of his search, if he had've used bona fide methods of academic research. Instead, he heaps on the melodrama. Bosh! Tosches comes up as rather a tosspot, given his criticism of the academics.

    A serious flaw at the outset of even a good book causes one to wonder about other of the author's conclusions, and methods in reaching them.

    5 out of 5 stars thank you .......2004-12-22

    finding stuff on emmett miller is very hard
    i bought The Minstrel Man from Georgia and fell in love with his voice right away and emotion behind it thank you for providing info behind the voice and the man, i am far from a racist and anybody who claims emmett was a racist is covering up their own problems.
    this book is perfect for anybody who likes roots and blues and early country wish there were pictures though

    4 out of 5 stars Nick - Good . Really !!!!!.......2004-01-29

    I went on a bit of a Nick Tosches binge , reading this book , THE DEVIL & SONNY LISTON , and TRINITIES , in one week's time . The two non-fiction books , I read them in , basically , anyway , the same day !!!!!!!!!
    As has been said elsewhere , Nick doe tend to have his ----- um , schtick . We hear how bad he is , how he dislikes hippies and the Summer Of Love , once again !
    Really , I DO like Nick , and , in fact , I have a Yahoo! group dedicated to him , and his generational cohort , Richard Meltzer -
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    Or , just go to Yahoo! groups and enter " Nick Tosches " and " Richard Meltzer " .
    Ya know , in this book , Nick calls John Hammond , etc. , " minstrels " ( In the blackface sense . ) Fair enough , but , since he's spent the whole book telling us how minstels - not just Emmett Miller , but , in general - weren't all that bad , were , in fact , often fairly good - Isn't he , then , making " minstrel " not an insult , thus making it not so much an instant put-down to cll Hammond , etc. , that he , preumably-like , intended ? Ah well . Just me . Hah hah . Perhaps , invoking Christianity just as Nick does , I will be forgiven for such perverseness/bitchiness !!!

    4 out of 5 stars Lively, entertaining look at American show business.......2003-10-21

    A wonderful examination not only of the life and career of an obscure minstrel-show performer, but a wildly entertaining exegesis on the whole of American show business, especially the routes in which ideas are passed down from generation to generation, transmuting all along the way. You'll never think of minstrelsy quite the same way again. If you read this book carefully and well, you will realize that blackface performances were more than just public displays of hate, as the current popular thinking would have it. It could not have been the dominant form of entertainment for the better part of a century if it were nothing more than an avenue for racist expression. Minstrelsy, in fact, became the first area of entrance for blacks into mainstream popular entertainment. But, as I mentioned before, the book is about a lot more than that---more than this review can contain. If you are interested in music, show business, language, history, ANYTHING---buy and savor this fine piece of work.

    4 out of 5 stars Almost Perfect...........2002-09-27

    .... But not. When he's writing about Emmett Miller and the history of minstrelsy, he's brilliant. Not only did he do a ton of original research on Miller and minstrelsy and early American music (blues, jazz and country, before any of those three were genres; even the categories are foreign to us today), but he can tie it into modern musical ideas like no one else. He makes these shadows come alive for a minute, which is amazing; you can almost smell Miller in the room. And his exploration of these roots pulls together many previously ungathered threads.

    However, he goes off the deep end, as usual for Tosches. Too many Ezra Pound discursions, for starters. If you're trying to impress us with your deep knowledge of foreign languages, you'd best not quote extensively from that old fraud, who "translated" buttloads of poetry from languages he couldn't read (with "help"); this taints Tosches with the suspicion of similar overreaching. It's great that he has read up on Greek word roots, but these links are too tenuous; it's a little bit of showing off and doesn't really illuminate anything. If he wants to write another book carrying his musical history ideas back from English ballads to ancient Greece, go for it, but here it just looks like dressing-up time. Stick to the blues.

    And though Tosches is a great critic of the pop music of his time, like all of his contemporaries in that game (Meltzer, Marcus, ad infinitum) he's every bit as stuck in a particular rut as those he would criticize. He's quoting Iggy Pop and Patti Smith again, folks.

    But while those complaints are serious, they don't detract from the fundamental brilliance of the story. It's a terrific, if languid, detective story, as well as an opening into a new world of understanding popular music. Tosches is the only "rock" critic ever who could have written it, which is a pity. I don't see how you can understand where our music came from without this book. Read it.
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    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Mesmeric
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    While I'm Dead...Feed The Dog is one of the first novels to include an integrated music soundtrack on CD. The bonus audio CD includes all originally scored music that helps to set the tone and atmosphere of the book.

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    5 out of 5 stars Mesmeric.......2004-06-25

    Very few books are as riveting as this satiric masterpiece. Through the mad romp of the book's hero Ric Browde through St Louis, While I'm Dead...Feed the Dog lampoons the sacred cows of American society - religion, the press, politicians and even rock and roll. A must read

    5 out of 5 stars Great Read!.......2004-05-27

    While I'm Dead...Feed The Dog is a black comedy fiction work that is accompanied by an originally scored music CD Soundtrack featuring never before released material. Written by songwriter/music producer and eight time platinum and eleven time gold awards winner Ric Browde, the novel explores teenage angst, love & sex and rock 'n roll in the '70s. Browde, who has sold over twenty million albums has worked with such artists as Poison, Joan Jett and Ted Nugent. From narcoleptic nuns, nymphomaniacs, the Mafia, a huckster televangelist, dying Latin teachers, corrupt school administrators, inept policemen, unscrupulous lawyers, buffoon reporters, half -- witted rock and roll musicians, transsexual record company presidents, drug addicted disc jockeys, greedy family members and the lovely Nina Pennington, this novel is a must for anyone who lived or wanted to live in the '70s as a teenager.

    5 out of 5 stars A Satirical Classic.......2004-05-25

    Ric Thibault will emerge as the funniest most poignient ad insightful character in modern literature

    5 out of 5 stars Funny and insightful.......2004-05-22

    It's not often that humor is so well done and, yet, makes points that are insightful without being preachy. Ric Browde is clearly intelligent and takes on religion, the media, law enforcement, relationships, the music biz and more in a satiric send up that is simply outstanding.

    Ric is funny and you can't help but laugh. However, I was compelled to pay attention to the points being made because they were good ones. Through humor Ric gets you to think about things which is always good.

    This is a good book with a soundtrack too. The song "I'm stupid and so are you" is hilarious and along with the rest of the CD that accompanies the book it highlights the story being told and makes you enjoy the process all the more.

    5 out of 5 stars Addictive.......2004-05-09

    I wish my teenage years had been as exciting as Ric Thibault's, the hero of this fantastically funny novel! This book is like a drug - once you start reading you're hooked... Hope there is more forthcoming from this new author.
    Jazz dead, but Buhr OK with that.(Music - Articles): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
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      Jazz dead, but Buhr OK with that.(Music - Articles): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
      Gale Reference Team
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      Release Date: 2007-08-13

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      This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on August 13, 2007. The length of the article is 701 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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      Title: Jazz dead, but Buhr OK with that.(Music - Articles)
      Author: Gale Reference Team
      Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
      Date: August 13, 2007
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          4 out of 5 stars Every occupation has its celebrities........2002-06-21

          Influenced no doubt by Anthony Bourdain's comments in 'Kitchen Confidential,' I've developed a little antipathy to celebrity chefs, with their catchphrases and signature lines of spices and kitchen equipment. At the same time, though, I keep finding myself drawn back to the cooking-themed TV network, where many of the chefs featured in this book find a home. For people who need to know whether Mario Batali is really from Italy or whether that hunky Bobby Flay is married, this is the book for you.

          Despite the suggestion on the title page that this book gives us 'the dish on the stars of your favorite cooking shows,' there's nothing really gossipy or titillating here (maybe I'm misinterpreting what 'dish' means). Instead, most of the chefs receive a brief biography-cum-conversation that explores their background, how they got into cooking and then onto TV, and their philosophy of food and food preparation. All personality-driven, there are no recipes or food-preparation tips in this book.

          Whether you're a serious fan of a particular TV chef (they have some, apparently), or just someone who stumbled across a cooking show and wondered who this person mixing salad with their bare hands was, you'll probably find the things you're looking for here.

          5 out of 5 stars They're funny and they can cook, too.......2000-03-29

          I know a lady who is addicted to the weather channel. She's crazy. If you have to be addicted to a channel, it ought to be the Food Network. If you're on a diet (isn't everyone) and can't eat the things you want to, tune in. It's just like going to a nice restaurant, but it's free and nonfat. You can see the food on the screen and imagine what it looks like, but it's just not possible to eat it. I remember those old cartoons from a long time ago. The cat would be real hungry or something and he would start to eat pages out of a cookbook as if he could convince himself it was the real thing. This book has over 25 chapters about different chefs, but even if you just care about Emeril or whatever, it's worth it because each chef gets plenty of attention. It's fun to know what these people would want for their last meal on earth or what is always in their refrigerators.

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          I'm a big fan of cooking shows and was quite happy to find this book by chance at my local bookstore. It is great fun -- easy to read and very thorough. Covers all the major Food Network chefs and a few I had never heard of. Good sense of history as well.

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          * More than 8,500 customers-ranging from independent consultants to large corporations-use WebEx online services to decrease the cost and increase the effectiveness of meetings, presentations, conferences, support, and training
          * WebEx grew by 35 percent from 2003 to 2004 and now controls 67 percent of the online conferencing market
          * Input from WebEx will enrich the book with actual examples and case studies of how individuals, small businesses, and large corporations are making use of the WebEx services

          Customer Reviews:

          1 out of 5 stars Typical "for Dummies" Pap.......2007-05-14

          I purchased this book because I was scheduled to do online training through WebEx. This book was absolutely no help at all. It essentially gave a brief exposure to the WebEx system and interface and then filled the rest of the pages with a bunch of nothing.

          This is typical of every "for Dummies" book I have seen. My recommendation for anyone planning on using WebEx as a trainer or a student: Don't waste your time or money on this book. You'll do far better downloading WebEx' online training resources.

          The only reason I bought this book was that it is the only book on WebEx I could find. I just wish someone had warned me not to waste my money as I am warning you.

          2 out of 5 stars This book is REALLY for dummies.......2005-12-14

          Webex is a fantastic tool, to be sure. But this book is a waste of time. The online learning tools at webex.com are a lot better that this book. It reads more like an ad for the product that a useful reference guide. The product is so easy to use that this book is really unnecessary.

          Now, if you REALLY are a dummy, this book might be helpful to you in some ways (so I gave it 2 stars). But I'd recommend you use the online tutorials at Webex, or join one of their online live meetings.

          5 out of 5 stars Perfect! Just What I Needed........2005-03-22

          This book was great. I'm new to WebEx, in fact new to web conferencing. I was a little intimidated at first, but got through my first few web conferences without any problems. (The Webex interface is really simple and intuitive.) What this book did was empower me with the knowledge of how to run really effective meetings online. Yes, it covers the basics well, but the real value was in learning all the additional capabilities Webex has available. For example, I learned about the integrated audio conferencing controls, the simple integration with outlook and some awesome video conferencing capabilities. As with all the Dummies book, its a quick read (gotta love the big font size and pictures).

          I recommend this book to anyone who has purchsed Webex or is is close to a web conferencing purchase.

          4 out of 5 stars Awesome quick reference.......2005-03-10

          I have been using webex for training my students online, but always used only basic functionalites. I always thought myself as smart enough for what I need to do online. One of my friend was reading it and I just skimmed through. Found interesting and bought a copy. Trust me..."Reading this dummies book will make you an expert in webex".

          5 out of 5 stars Very Informative .......2005-03-02

          I've used WebEx at my company for 2 years. My wife bought me this book even though I thought I didn't need it. It's awesome. It's a quick read, and taught me several ways my company and I could use WebEx that I didn't even think of. I just bought copies for my whole project team, our director of Support, IT and Training.
          Webex Web Meetings for Dummies
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            Webex Web Meetings for Dummies
            Clark Scheffy
            Manufacturer: WILEY
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: B000OLOH1I

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