Posts Tagged ‘book’
Herman Leonard’s Jazz Memories
There are those moments in life in which a consumer like myself just wishes he hadn’t blown his money on other goodies. One just stumbles across something which has been around for a while, hidden deep within the dark recesses of the Internet, in places one just didn’t think of looking before, only for it [...]
Take Five
It is not all too often that excellent biographies of jazz musicians are written. “Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond”, published by Parkside Publications in February of 2005, is one of them.
Doug Ramsey, a knowledgable jazz critic was a friend of Desmond’s for over 20 years up until Desmond’s passing in [...]
Jazz Life
Chances are you’ve heard of William Claxton before, even without being a die-hard jazz fan. He’s one of the most famous photographers and has captured on film the likes of Steve McQueen and Chet Baker and worked for for LIFE, Paris Match, and Vogue.
45 years ago, Claxton and German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United [...]