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Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock
Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2010) Norman Meehan Review by John Shand Serious Fun is the perfect title for a biography of Mike Nock. So often the...
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Book Feature – Herman and Rosie
The first in our regular monthly feature on books with jazz in them! Herman and Rosie (picture book) by Gus Gordon Penguin, August 2012 - 32 pp, $24.99 Purchase direct from the Penguin website >...
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Bob Barnard’s Jazz Scrapbook: a pictorial memoir
Bob Barnard’s Jazz Scrapbook: a pictorial memoir is now available. It’s 200 pages, large format paperback, 280 x 210 mm, full colour, and contains over 375 images. Presented in five main chapters, the...
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Book Review: Bob Barnard’s Jazz Scrapbook
Bob Barnard’s Jazz Scrapbook by Bob Barnard with Loretta Barnard (Sonnet) Review by John Shand It turns out that a picture is actually worth about 300 words rather than a thousand. The proof is in this...
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The Australian Jazz Real Book | an invaluable resource
Review by Phil Sandford Andrea Keller – one of the Australian musicians whose tunes appear in the Australian Jazz Real Book The Australian Jazz Real Book, and its accompanying website, is an important...
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Testimony: A Poetic and Musical Tribute to Charlie Parker | Book and CD...
Testimony: A Tribute To Charlie Parker With New and Selected Jazz Poems Yusef Komunyakaa; Sandy Evans, contrib.; Christopher Williams, contrib.; Miriam Zolin, contrib.; Sascha Feinstein, fwd. 140 pages...
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No dividing lines in music: Sandy Evans and Testimony by Phil Sandford
No dividing lines in music: Sandy Evans and Testimony Interview by Phil Sandford Read Phil’s review of Testimony here > First conceived in 1995, Testimony, the musical poem tribute to Charlie...
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Book review (includes CD): Testimony – A Tribute to Charlie Parker (review by...
Testimony – A Tribute to Charlie Parker Yusef Komunyakaa/Sandy Evans Wesleyan University Press, 2013 Review by John Shand Yusef Komunyakaa got Bird. He got that to render him in poetry could never be a...
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Interview: David James, author of The World’s Best Jazz Club
The World’s Best Jazz Club (Major Street Publishing) by David James Released June 2014 Book launch at Melbourne International Jazz Festival Three aspects of the writing of The World’s Best Jazz Club...
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Book review: The Remarkable Mr Morrison by Mervyn E. Collins
The Remarkable Mr Morrison – The Virtuosity and Versatility of Australia’s Master Musician (Melbourne Books) by Mervyn E. Collins Review by John Shand Biographers tend to set to work because they are...
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