tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21059997816748369792024-02-07T12:20:15.544-08:00StompBeastA dustblown primitive awash in the digitized city.Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.comBlogger358125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-14229130660353989002017-12-07T07:23:00.000-08:002018-01-31T05:58:33.465-08:00THE 50 BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>#RESIST</b></div>
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<i><b><a href="http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/sanddexplosionsreview">The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975</a></b></i> by Mat Callahan</div>
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<i><b><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5036-0032-4">Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran</a></b></i> by Nahid Siamdoust</div>
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<i><b><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ill-take-you-to-a-place-called-italian-hall-on-daniel-wolffs-grown-up-anger-and-the-calumet-massacre-of-1913/#!">Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913</a></b> </i>by Daniel Wolff<br />
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<b>#LIT</b></div>
<i><b><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-poetics-of-jazz/">Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination</a></b> </i>by Brent Hayes Edwards<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/irreverent-poetry-60s-helped-spawn-punk-music">"Do You Have a Band?": Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City</a></b> </i>by Daniel Kane<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2017/10/ua-professors-book-explores-hip-hop-and-religion">In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion</a></b></i> by Alejandro Nava</div>
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<b>#ESSAY</b></div>
<i><b><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/sc-books-they-cant-kill-us-til-they-kill-us-hanif-abdurraquib-1122-story.html">They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays</a></b></i> by Hanif Abdurraqib<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/books/review-shake-it-up-music-anthology-jonathan-lethem-kevin-dettmar.html"> Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z</a></b></i> ed. by Jonathan Lethem & Kevin Dettmar<br />
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<b>#SOUL</b></div>
<i><b><a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/tony-fletcher-in-the-midnight-hour.html">In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett</a></b></i> by Tony Fletcher<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.popmatters.com/soul-survivor-on-al-green-coming-to-terms-with-his-powers-2495382856.html">Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green</a></b></i> by Jimmy McDonough<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/542468737/in-good-booty-our-hot-and-heavy-love-affair-with-pop-music">Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music</a></b></i> by Ann Powers<br />
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<b>#JASS</b></div>
<i><b><a href="http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-great-jazz-and-pop-vocal-albums-by.html">The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums</a></b></i> by Will Friedwald<br />
<i><b><a href="http://wbgo.org/post/assessing-queen-bebop-musical-lives-sarah-vaughan#stream/0">Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan</a></b> </i>by Elaine M. Hayes<br />
<i><b><a href="http://wbgo.org/post/assessing-queen-bebop-musical-lives-sarah-vaughan#stream/0">Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs</a></b> </i>by Martin Torgoff<br />
<i><b><a href="http://wqad.com/2017/08/01/author-from-davenport-launches-book-after-14-years-of-finding-bix/">Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend</a></b> </i>by Brendan Wolfe<br />
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<b>#Р<span style="font-size: large;">оссия</span></b></div>
<i><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/riot-days-by-maria-alyokhina-review-pussy-riot">Riot Days</a></b></i> by Maria Alyokhina<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/09/21/shostakovich">Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad</a></b> </i>by M.T. Anderson<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/van-cliburn-elusive-cold-war-star/">When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath</a></b></i> by Stuart Isacoff<br />
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<b>#FICTION</b></div>
<b><i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/steve-ericksons-shadowbahn-is-the-best-kind-of-experimental-novel/2017/02/06/599d67d0-e724-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?utm_term=.a93e18f7a7e7">Shadowbahn</a> </i></b>by Steve Erickson<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/books/review/white-tears-hari-kunzru.html">White Tears</a></b></i> by Hari Kunzru<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8112-2660-8">Late Arcade</a></b></i> by Nathaniel Mackey<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/05/24/528842907/the-power-of-music-is-at-the-heart-of-black-mad-wheel">Black Mad Wheel</a></b></i> by Josh Malerman<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://iaspm-us.net/interview-series-matt-brennan-when-genres-collide/">When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle between Jazz and Rock</a></b> </i>by Matt Brennan<br />
<i><b><a href="https://slate.com/arts/2017/10/the-jann-wenner-biography-and-the-hbo-doc-reviewed.html">Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine</a></b> </i>by Joe Hagan<br />
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<b>#CLASSICAL</b></div>
<i><b><a href="https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2017/10/Departments/Books.html">Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting</a></b> </i>by John Mauceri<br />
<b><i><a href="https://avantmusicnews.com/2017/05/15/amn-reviews-tim-rutherford-johnson-music-after-the-fall-modern-composition-and-culture-since-1989-u-of-california-press-2017/">Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989</a></i></b> by Tim Rutherford-Johnson<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/11/09/toscanini-the-perfectionist/">Toscanini: Musician of Conscience</a><span id="goog_1233987643"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1233987644"></span></b></i> by Harvey Sachs<br />
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<b>#NYC</b></div>
<i><b><a href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1527-meet-me-in-the-bathroom-is-the-juiciest-book-on-rocknroll-in-years/">Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011</a></b></i> by Lizzy Goodman<br />
<b><i><a href="https://www.popmatters.com/punk-avenue-phil-marcade-allegory-for-70s-era-new-york-punk-scne-2495395671.html">Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982</a></i></b> by Phil Marcade<br />
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<i><b><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/roots-radicals-and-rockers-review-putting-skiffle-back-in-the-mix-1.3097840">Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World</a></b> </i>by Billy Bragg<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/04/o-sing-unto-the-lord-the-history-of-english-church-music-andrew-gant-review">O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music</a></b> </i>by Andrew Gant<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/11/folk-song-in-england-by-steve-roud">Folk Song in England</a></b></i> by Steve Roud<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/07/21st-century-schizoid-bands">The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock</a></b> </i>by David Weigel<br />
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<b><b>#MINNESO<i>TAH</i></b></b></div>
<i><b><a href="https://www.popmatters.com/complicated-fun-the-birth-of-minneapolis-punk-and-indie-rock-1974-1984-by-c-2495387318.html">Complicated Fun: The Birth of Minneapolis Punk and Indie Rock, 1974-1984-An Oral History</a></b></i><br />
by Cyn Collins<br />
<i><b><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-am-something-that-youll-never-comprehend-remembering-prince/">Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince</a></b></i> by Ben Greenman<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/24/swagger-pomp-jamaicas-dancehall-style/">Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture</a></b></i> (reprint) by Beth Lesser w/ Stuart Baker<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/brian-b-cross-ghost-notes-photography-book-captures-j-dilla-george-clinton-and-more-8881360">Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed</a></b></i> by Brian Cross, Greg Tate & Dave Tompkins<br />
<b><i><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/altlatino/2017/09/21/552500643/latin-music-and-los-angeles-exchange-explored-in-the-massive-pacific-standard-ti">The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles</a></i></b> ed. by Josh Kun<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/in-the-raver-stories-project-michael-tullberg-collects-stories-tracing-the-history-of-rave-culture-8536899">The Raver Stories Project</a></b></i> ed. by Michael Tullberg<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/finding_joseph_i_an_oral_history_of_h.r._from_bad_brains/">Finding Joseph I: An Oral History of H.R. from Bad Brains</a></b></i> by Howie Abrams & James Lathos<br />
<i><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/11/23/lou-reed-wild-side/"><b>Lou Reed: A Life</b></a></i> by Anthony DeCurtis<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/david-bowie-a-life-dylan-jones.html">David Bowie: A Life</a></b></i> by Dylan Jones<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.guitaraficionado.com/ga-recommends/everything-is-combustible-television">Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist</a></b></i> by Robert Lloyd<br />
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<b>#LISTENING</b></div>
<i><b><a href="http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=5476&menu=">The Force of Listening</a></b></i> by Lucia Farinati & Claudia Frith<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2017/04/20/524349771/how-do-you-bond-with-mozart-adopt-a-starling">Mozart's Starling</a></b></i> by Lyanda Lynn Haupt<br />
<i><b><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/zeitgeist-to-obsolete-rewinding-the-walkmans-inverted-cinderella-story/#!">Personal Stereo</a></b> </i>by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://westborough.wickedlocal.com/lifestyle/20171127/book-review-memoir-captures-wanda-jacksons-rise-as-rockabillys-first-female-star">Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame</a></b></i> by Wanda Jackson w/ Scott Boma<br />
<b><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/561730/under-my-thumb-by-rhian-jones/9781910924617/">Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them</a></i></b> ed. by Rhian Jones & Eli Davies<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/hit-so-hard-hole-drummer-patty-schemel-revisits-dark-times/">Hit So Hard: A Memoir</a></b> </i>by Patty Schemel<br />
<i><b><a href="http://louderthanwar.com/cosey-fanni-tutti-art-sex-music-book-review/">Art Sex Music</a></b> </i>by Cosey Fanni Tutti</div>
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Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-30500632746741864282017-02-24T08:05:00.001-08:002017-02-27T15:03:59.766-08:00ᐃ b Ỹ է ∑ s__N__b Ø b s ᐁ [UPDATED]<div style="text-align: center;">
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As was revealed by former Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra chief-of-staff <b>Jesse Sharps</b> at a PAFF screening last week, <b>Mekala Session</b>, son of Ark saxophonist <b>Michael</b>, had now taken over as concertmaster the Ark. He will lead the band (including dad, <b>Roberto Miranda</b>, <b>Jesse Sharps</b>, <b>Bobby West</b>, <b>Vinny Golia</b>, <b>Steve Smith</b>, <b>Kamau Daaood</b>, <b>Dwight Trible</b>, <b>Maia</b> and <b>Isaac Smith</b>) in a recital to be held Wednesday, March 1 at 8pm at CalArt's <a href="https://music.calarts.edu/facilities">Roy O. Disney Concert Hall</a>.</div>
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This Saturday from 5-8pm, the Mayme Clayton Library in Culver City will debut the last of three events surrounding their current exhibition entitled <b><a href="http://www.claytonmuseum.org/events/rappin-black-history-series">Rappin' Black History</a></b>. The special guest will be Anthony <b>"Father Amde" Hamilton of the Watts Prophets</b>. Doors open at 4pm.</div>
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Also coming up at the Clayton on March 26th will be the latest installment of the <b><a href="http://www.claytonmuseum.org/events/double-m-jazz-salon--mclm">Double M Jazz Salon</a></b>. <b><a href="https://azarlawrence.com/">Azar Lawrence</a></b> and his Quartet (pianist <b>Theo Saunders</b>; bassist <b>Henry Franklin</b>, drummer <b>Tony Austin</b>). The concert starts at 2pm, but make sure you make it an hour earlier for a special live interview with Lawrence courtesy of our friend, jazz historian <b>Jeffrey Winston</b>. Tix are $20.</div>
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On Sunday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m., <b>Alex Cline</b> and <b>Will Salmon</b>'s <b>Open Gate Theatre</b> celebrates 20 years of its eclectic Sunday evening concerts with the fundraiser <b>IMPROVIGANZA</b>, described as<span style="text-align: start;"> "a select but still ultimately massive array of volunteer musical notables who have both played and listened to much of the music that has been presented at the concert series over its two decades, all of whom will be heard in a variety of contexts and combinations in the course of the evening. Artists other than Alex (drums, percussion) and Will (flute, voice) are planning to contribute to an explosion of spontaneous music-making" are: brass: Dan Clucas, Bobby Bradford, Daniel Rosenboom, Bruce Friedman, William Roper; woodwinds: Vinny Golia, Phillip Greenlief, Alexander Vogel, Eric Barber, Charles Sharp, Emily Hay, Peter Kuhn, Richard Wood, Gavin Templeton; voices: Dwight Trible, Bonnie Barnett, Kaoru Mansour; strings (guitars, basses, pipa): G.E. Stinson, Ross Hammond, Jie Ma, Scott Heustis, Steuart Liebig, Jeff Schwartz, Devin Hoff, Darryl Tewes; keyboards: Wayne Peet; drums/percussion: Garth Powell, Breeze Smith, Brad Dutz, Christopher Garcia, Jonathan Saxon. And there are still some musicians who are attempting to appear but have not been able to commit yet—could be more!" </span>The concert will take place at the <b><a href="http://culturela.org/cultural-centers/center-for-the-arts-eagle-rock/">Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock,</a> </b> 2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock (one block west of Eagle Rock Blvd.). Admission is $10. Further information can be obtained by calling (626) 795-4989.<br />
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This Saturday at 2pm at the <b><a href="http://fel.ltsc.org/en/">Far East Lounge </a></b>(353 E 1st St, Little Tokyo) there will be a concert to remember late composer and community activist <b><a href="http://www.furious.com/perfect/glennhoriuchi.html">Glenn Horiuchi</a></b> (1955-2000). The brass ensemble <b>Purple Gums</b>, made up of Los Angeles musicians <b>Bobby Bradford</b> (cornet) and <b>William Roper</b> (tuba), and San Francisco-based <b><a href="http://www.franciswong.net/">Francis Wong</a></b> (saxophone), and other SF guests Lenora Lee (dance) and Melody Takata (dance and taiko), will perform. Admission is free/donation.<br />
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Found this sobering but well-written 1993 <i>Washington Post </i>account of <b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/15/the-lonesome-death-of-a-jazzman/d51d7c02-4f67-4046-9e31-edfd43fae997/?utm_term=.65ebe2df2bd7"><i>The Lonesome Death of a Jazzman</i></a></b>. If that doesn't depress you enough, try this recent Salon article on <b><a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/02/23/welcome-to-the-jazzless-age-change-in-new-york-times-coverage-spells-trouble-for-a-scene/#.WK-fBmJwI2g.facebook">The new, jazzless <i>New York Times</i></a></b>.<br />
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<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/black-night-falling-david-goodis-central-avenue/">Superb new article</a> by our blog bud Woody Haut about an obscure writer named<br />
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For a more updated take on how L.A. inspires its artists,<br />
read this new piece on trumpeter <b><a href="https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/20/terrace-martin-feature/">Terrace Martin's Los Angeles</a></b>.</div>
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Pianist/vocalist/provocateur <b>Diamanda Galas</b> will mount a rare U.S. tour, <b><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/diamanda-galas-announces-rare-us-tour-dates-w467283">which will include L.A. </a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/diamanda-galas-announces-rare-us-tour-dates-w467283">on April 5</a></b>.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://vimeo.com/194682631">Soul Amazing</a></i></b>, an obscure but essential documentary about L.A.'s underground hip-hop scene has just resurfaced online.</div>
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Hi! Our <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/arts/a-member-of-las-most-famous-black-film-movement-returns-with-a-doc-about-jazz-legend-horace-tapscott-7884923">brief preview</a> of the new jazz documentary <b><i><a href="http://freespiritproductions.com/site/?portfolio_item=horace-tapscott-musical-griot">Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot</a></i></b> (it premieres next weekend!) is now up over at the <i>L.A. Weekly</i>. Go <a href="https://vimeo.com/199487563">here</a> for the trailer. Go <a href="https://www.paff.org/festivals/paff-la/tickets/">here</a> for tickets and more info.<br />
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<b style="text-align: center;">FROM SUSAN MILLER TWEEDY (FB post, 1/29/17):</b><br />
Ok...so, Jeff and I went inside the airport and we were trying to go upstairs to the catwalks because I wanted to show him the view from above. We were walking by the area where people are waiting for the transport to leave the international terminal. There was a group of 3 kind of older white people we had to pass. One of the men said right in our faces "I wish I had my shotgun. I'd shoot every one of these people". (meaning the protesters of course) Then he says right to Jeff, "I'd definitely shoot you." Jeff said "Excuse me??? You don't even know me." Guy says "I don't want to know you. I'd shoot you anyway." A few other things were said back and forth that I can't even remember because of the insane adrenaline that was rushing through us. The woman was laughing insanely in my face after I said anything. Jeff decided to go and tell the police what was happening. Several police officers came over. They asked if anyone heard us get threatened and many people raised their hand and many people said "I heard it". And none of them were protesters. They were people of many different colors and nationalities, who had just gotten off an international flight and were willing to stand up to hatred. The volunteer lawyers saw something going on and stood by to see if they were needed. They were awesome and so were the cops. Jeff talked with the police for a long time and decided not to press charges. The police made the guy apologize. Sadly, I highly doubt if the experience will cause that group of people to think any differently at all. So depressing. All of it.Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-86321904885503773752017-01-20T08:14:00.001-08:002017-01-24T06:00:37.094-08:00"collaboration is the path from protest to power"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="346" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VgVFLdwIRPU" width="640"></iframe><br />
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jazz violinist <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQZ2n7jzvy4">michael white</a></b>, who collaborated with <b>john coltrane</b>, <b>rahsaan roland kirk</b>, <b>pharoah sanders</b> and <b>sun ra</b> among many others, passed away last month. his widow, vocalist <b>leisei chen</b>, has written this <b><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/the-spiritual-jazz-master-leisei-chens-tribute-to-late-violinist-michael-white-7816066">moving tribute</a></b> for the <i>la weekly</i>. there's also a <a href="http://beautifultribute.com/michael-white/">tribute page</a> if you'd like to add any memories or condolences.<br />
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kudos to bassist <b>jeff schwartz</b>, who just received new funding for <b><i><a href="https://jeffschwartzmusic.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/soundwaves-2017-updated/">soundwaves</a></i></b>, his new music concert series at the santa monica library. the first show is this wednesday 1/18 with flautist <b>emily hay</b> and contrabassist <b>steuart liebig</b>.<br />
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<i>also:</i> schwartz also has a <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strictly-Confidential-West-Coast-Chamber/dp/B01LW3ASG9/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1484749872&sr=1-1&keywords=west+coast+chamber+jazz+trio">killer new cd</a></b> with <b>ellen burr</b> and <b>andreas centazzo</b><br />
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prolific nyc pianist <b><a href="http://www.matthewshipp.com/">matthew shipp</a></b> has been on a roll lately with his facebook takedowns of the current political climate. he waxes further in a new <a href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/matthew-shipp-lets-do-lunch-soon-matthew-shipp-by-yuko-otomo.php#.WHzQDU7nqkM.facebook"><i>aaj</i> interview</a>.<br />
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<i>also:</i> shipp has just <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/music/prolific-free-jazz-pianist-matthew-shipp-leaves-recording-behind-9575441">announced his retirement</a> from recording (!!!)<br />
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<b><i>breakin' 'n' enterin'</i></b> an obscure 1983 documentary about the burgeoning west coast hip hop scene (it wound up inspiring the <i>breakin'</i> films) has just <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkgObeA8AU">resurfaced online</a>.<br />
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At least with past historical events such as <b>Columbine</b> or <b>9/11</b>, the ornate grisliness was live and televised (followed by the endless Moebius-strip replays) and could not be avoided. But there was a sort of catharsis there -- there was no <i>Matrix</i>-like veil. We saw the worst we possibly could see and were awash in the direct and decisive complications. On <b>11/9</b>, the profound sense of switcheroo was so violent that is nearly caused air bubbles in the blood -- if these indeed were the "bubbles" people kept talking about. Only this time, the slowly dawning horror was recorded not in scenes of collapsing buildings or bodies being pulled out of classroom windows but in a decidedly different kind of graphic imagery: cable-news chyrons, virtual-reality pie charts and wonky ballot tallies. It was a slow and stealthy choke for those of us who did not adequately prepare ourselves for the fact that their fellow countrymen could give the collective Republic such a decisive shotgun blast to the face. Not to resort to hyperbole or anything, but this it was cultural, moral and civic <a href="http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell-america/">suicide</a> on a Biblical level.<br />
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America in its immediate aftermath was like someone once described Eastern Europe before 1989: "One giant, dimly lit prison yard." The Beast lives in a Mediterranean climate and even the golden sun looked baleful and sickening. (<i>Shouldn't the weather at least CHANGE to suit the mood?</i>) Of course there was jubilation, but not not the pleasant kind. Quite the opposite, actually.<br />
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In the last two months, a deranged and violent kind of retribution has coalesced like an army massing beyond the trees: <b>1,094</b> reported incidents of hate crimes and counting. (And this doesn't even include post-holiday <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/mall-disturbances-after-christmas/index.html">mall violence</a>.) Sure, some of them might even be fake but so what? It's their <i>meaning</i> -- that they are even in the air and part of our sloppy under/overground discourse, like the rumors after the Twin Towers fell that all Jewish employees at the WTC had received phone calls warning them to "stay away" that day. It was bunk of course, but the rumor made it into <a href="http://www.nathanielturner.com/somebodyblewupamerica.htm">a poem by <b>Amiri Baraka</b></a>. The poet was heavily condemned for this, but the Beast always felt that his point was this: Such hearsay was part of the paranoid ether of post-9/11, and its very presence -- even if on the fringes -- boded the question: <i>Why is this still here? Why is it even being thought, much less said so flagrantly and cruelly? Of what acrid residue of our collective past was this and why does it keep bubbling to the surface?</i><br />
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And then came Election Day. Now, what was on the fringes has turned jarringly mainstream. Now, to paraphrase <b><a href="http://focusfeaturesmedia.com/uploads/image/mediafile/1253303722-1f61bdf86192f3771f7ec0a629a73844/x950.jpg">Gust Avrakotos</a></b> in <i>Charlie Wilson's War</i>, "the crazies are rolling into D.C. like it's a fuckin' bathtub drain."<br />
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Not soon after the election, the Beast traveled to a family outpost in the middle of <b>Doug Ducey</b>'s dog-dick Red State of Arizona -- Maricopa County to be exact, until recently <b><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/12/sheriff-joe-arpaio-the-birther/510857/">Joe Arpaio</a></b>'s racial-profiling gulag. Our mood was quietly foul, emotions rolling around like ball bearings, wanting to be festive but guardedly so. One had the sense of having tripped on an edge of carpet and tumbled face-first through the looking glass. Five minutes after we crossed the border, we caught sight of a biker in the next lane with 'FUCK ISLAM' emblazoned (oddly, in the old-timey script of a saloon sign) on the back of his leather jacket. We stopped at a Waffle House for lunch and overheard adjacent bloviating from guys in trucker caps about California's new "plastic bag tax" as if that proved all their sneaking suspicions about their neighbor to the west. We rode up the US-101 outside of Phoenix which turns out is festooned with and endless parade of for-profit colleges, all lined up by the interstate like a main drag of used-car lots.<br />
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Not helpful. You cannot escape the zeitgeist, and its color is the smeared orange of a smog-choked L.A. sunset in the '70s and it will be on all screens for at least the next four years.<br />
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You prayed that there would be some sort of band-aid for all this free-floating bad juju, and there was. Actually, there was a lot of them, and they had been ripped off at once, and someone was not being gentle about it. It was ugly and it was everywhere and it was inescapable. Things were speeding up and slowing down simultaneously. Reality was hyper- and hypo- and post- and meta-. It couldn't get any worse than if the entire nation was a bunch of junkies watching each other nod out. The new regime wasn't in for another two months and the menace was already snuffling its dragon-breath on our doorstep. It was bad but it was going to get much, much worse. The exhaustion of the endless, cancerous campaign made us feel like we had already been through four years of Suck -- but those four years <i>hadn't even started yet.</i> Nope, it quite simply could not get any worse.<br />
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And then, like a methhead with an elephant gun, my sister made it worse.<br />
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It started around the open kitchen island as the holiday meal was coming together, with me noting the small immigrant communities of Bulgarians and Romanians that had nestled themselves in the Southwest. The retirement community our family matriarch lives in is run and staffed almost entirely by those who fled the insanity of the <b>Ceausescu regime</b>. "They grew up under a Communist dictator and they know about the repression of the Left," Mom explained without elaborating on why they thought of the current president-elect would be any better.<br />
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As for the Bulgarians, I had met only one, at a Christmas party in Santa Fe several years ago. My sister introduced us to a friend of her nicknamed <b>Tedi</b>. She was a six-foot tall, vivacious, fiercely smart brunette with a bewitching Eastern European accent and rocking a shimmering long black cocktail dress and hefting a goblet of wine without an ounce of pretension. (Think <b>Charlize Theron</b> mixed with <b>Marion Cotillard</b> -- both in exuberant and unguarded moods.) The Beast doesn't remember how long our conversation lasted, because we walked away from it in a bewildered, head-spinning fog. "I think I have a crush on Tedi," I confessed to my sister, who laughed and touched my shoulder: "<i>Everyone</i> has a crush on Tedi."<br />
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More so when we learned about her: associate professor of internal medicine at the UNM School of Medicine; internist at both the UNM Health Sciences Center and the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque. Tedi began her career at UNM in 2003 as one of the pioneering members of the <a href="https://www.va.gov/providerinfo/albuquerque/detail.asp?providerid=761">New Mexico VA Hospitalist Group</a>. According to a local newspaper profile, she "dedicated her professional life to the care and education of our veterans." She was kind and patient with them -- even when they were hostile to her. It must have worked. My sister told me that when Tedi was doing her rounds, they would line up eagerly to see her. Her very presence, just entering a room, was a temporary balm for some truly damaged souls.<br />
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But now, just after the ascendancy of a Gangster Capitalist and His Cabinet of 'Orribles, my sister sits at the marble kitchen island amid the smells of roasting turkey and tells me that Tedi did not even made it 48 hours into 2016.<br />
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It was early morning on a Saturday in downtown Albuquerque. Tedi was on her way to the medical center. Miles away at a local diner, a 29-year-old waitress showed up for her shift, argued with her manager and abruptly quit. She then proceeded to get into a red Ford Ranger pickup truck and sped off. Sometime after this, she picked up two men. Or maybe the men were already in the truck when she left the diner. Or maybe there was just one man. Nobody really knows. What is known is that minutes later, as Tedi was waiting at a stoplight, the red truck plowed into the back of her Mercedes Sedan at over 70 miles an hour, demolishing its rear-end into a gaping wound.<br />
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Tedi's neck was broken instantly. But she was not killed outright. In the OR they deployed the countermeasures of trauma. "They had to open up her skull," my sister cried.<br />
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Later that day, Tedi died. This literally happened January 2, 2016. She was 51 years old.<br />
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But there's more to the story -- disturbing tendrils that don't quite connect.<br />
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After the collision, the young waitress emerged alive from the wreckage. Dazed and hysterical, her shirt covered in blood, she ran a couple of blocks to a dialysis center, whose staff immediately called 911. Whomever else was in the truck with her also made it out alive. And ran. They have since fled the state. Witnesses to the crash have also vanished.<br />
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The driver's name was released <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/902866/three-indicted-in-fatal-2016-car-crashes.html">earlier this month</a>. It took almost a year for a grand jury to reach an indictment of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident. During that time, Tedi's grieving friends were asking questions and not getting much from the local cops -- they wanted to know if the woman was texting, if she was on drugs or intoxicated. "How <i>dare</i> you call me this late?" seethed the press spokesman for the ABQ PD to a retired and respected veteran reporter (<i>remember those?</i>) who had phoned him at his house. Tedi's coworkers were dumbfounded when they were informed that the young woman had not been charged, that she had been released pending trial and -- inexplicably -- had been permitted to keep driving the streets for the next 10 months.<br />
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There was the whiff of conspiracy -- although the who/what/why of it all remained maddeningly murky. In the absence of any tangible or logical flow of information from official sources, the grieving inevitably turned to innuendo and rumor. One of Tedi's friends told me that "some sort of high level intervention" occurred in the case, although exactly what this meant they could not elaborate. The accused is from a family without means, but <a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/922905/trial-date-to-be-set-in-fatal-car-wreck.html">a high-profile defense attorney</a> stepped in to take her case. <i>Whisper, whisper</i>. Tedi's case is being handled by a public prosecutor who has no prior experience in a courtroom. <i>Whisper, whisper</i>.<br />
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But the true cause may have been more prosaic. "The Bernalillo County District Attorney's office says missing evidence and court backlog are the reasons why it took nearly a year to indict a woman accused of killing a doctor," KQRE recently <a href="http://krqe.com/blog/2016/12/12/woman-accused-in-deadly-hit-and-run-to-remain-behind-bars/">reported</a>.<br />
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Absorbing all of this in less than ten minutes after we arrived, and already shaky because of the current national mood, the Beast never felt so frozen in the helplessness of fate and utterly indifferent violence. To quote the writer <b>Denis Johnson</b>: "It made God look like a senseless maniac."<br />
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It was now open season to be senseless maniacs for God and mortals alike. Usually it's one or the other, not both. Now it's both. The body politic does not fall apart piece by piece; it fails all at once after rotting in plain sight.<br />
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But what is the rot here? Someone on the bottom of our socioeconomic ladder wipes out an immigrant doctor beloved by veterans, many of them from the very same rung of that ladder. You know, the same <i>mensches</i> who volunteered as human shields for First American protesters in the brutal North Dakota cold; who have had to clean maggots out of their wounds in shabby VA hospitals; who have landed in homeless shelters as addicts. There is no irony or satire to wring from this. This is America eating itself.<br />
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At Tedi's memorial, her shattered husband, also a doctor and professor, told the assembled that when he first spotted Tedi as one of his students, sitting in the lecture hall at the University of Medicine in Sofia, it was "like being hit by an asteroid."<br />
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"Every day, I have seen people's lives end, or changed by tragedy in one day," Tedi once told my sister. "That's why you have to make the most of every moment you are alive. You don't know when it will end."<br />
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Tedi wasn't supposed to be working at the hospital that day. She had a bag of fresh bagels on the passenger seat next to her. They were for her staff.<br />
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When you write for a living (or at least convince yourself that you do) you can't help but court pretension. You can't help but seeing the random occurrences in life as metaphors. It can be dangerous and counterproductive -- you feel battered by hidden meanings with no solutions, you feel oppressed by portents and symbols. But sometimes, even as you know it is just a coincidence, tiny things crystallize, and this sad tale really had it all: the triumphs and tragedies of our immigrant population; war trauma and veterans' rights; the grinding plight of the working poor; alcohol and drug abuse (alleged); institutional neglect and overwhelmed public servants; the dangers of technology and social media, even the whiff of "fake news" when there is no other option, or when governmental bodies build informational firewalls. And sudden violent death with no winners. It was the face of America 3.0, Year Zero.<br />
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Tedi's life ended on a street called Constitution.<br />
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Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-52685338570233513402016-12-03T08:45:00.001-08:002017-01-16T07:13:14.879-08:00THE 50 BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Q: <i>"Will two-aught-sixteen -- already being referred to as either a <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9984-the-year-in-disappointment-2016/">Year in Disappointment</a> or a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/19/world/2016-review-revenge-of-the-forgotten/index.html">Year We Got Everything Wrong</a> that will haunt us for decades -- come to affect our judgment of its music books?"</i></b><br />
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<b>A: <i>"Are you kidding? What kind of stupid question is that? Who gives a %$*&? DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!! LOCK HER UP!!!"</i></b><br />
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But is it a stupid question really? In many cases the picks on this year's list can enhance one's understanding of this new upside-down-funhouse-mirror mortal coil in which we now find ourselves entwined.<br />
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Yes, out of the 200+ music books released in 2016, there are the pervasive trends from previous years: Splashy memoirs from music-industry insiders (<b>Carole Bayer Sager</b>, <b>L.A. Reid</b>), the recently departed (<b>Maurice White</b>) and unemployed MTV VJs (<b>Matt Pinfield</b>); the scruffy struggles of failed-but-ahead-of-their-time bands (<b>The Hollywood Brats</b>) and punk-rock survivors (<b>Dave Dictor</b>, <b>Keith Morris</b>); inspirational narratives from rappers you've either never heard of (<b>Lecrae Moore?</b>, <b>Jensen Carp??</b>) or who have been incarcerated (<b>Lil Wayne</b>); the packaging of underground D.I.Y. punk culture into glossy and expensive coffee-table art books; these persistent mixtape-and-Spotify inspired <b>"Listicle Books"</b> (spurred by that overripe "<a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/paper-trail/9514-greil-marcus-the-history-of-rock-n-roll-in-ten-songs/">A History of [INSERT TOPIC] in [INSERT # OF EXAMPLES]</a>" trend) that use the almighty playlist as a narrative device (or a replacement for lack thereof); continuing excavations of regional jazz scenes (Portland, Boston) and yes, more goddamn <b>"Boomer Books"</b> on Dylan, the Beatles, Grateful Dead, NYC in the '70s, the Doors and the Rolling Stones.<br />
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On the other hand, anyone concerned or at least academically interested in music as protest, satire or just plain defiance will find plenty to enjoy here. To whit: <b>Woody Guthrie</b>, nearly a half-century dead, had a very good year. (You think <b>Dave Eggers</b> invented the anti-Trump <b><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/30-days-30-songs-donald-trump-death-cab-for-cutie/503783/">"30 Songs in 30 Days"</a></b>? Think again.) You will find not one but two nominees from what possibly is the hippest and scrappiest little press out there: the <b><a href="http://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress">Minnesota Historical Society</a></b>. Despite the white riots going on in electoral campaigns in Europe and America, one might find the vitality of <b>Afrofuturism</b> and <b>Post-millennial Feminism</b> surprising and uplifting. Ditto to anyone interested in the tangled racial roots of America, or the global impact of the punk and rap on civil-rights movements. There's even a book here about HATING music -- if that indeed is your thing. Because after all, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/us/post-election-hate-crimes-and-fears-trnd/">we really loved to hate in 2016</a>, didn't we?<br />
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And of course, if none of this matters to you, a lot of these books are simply a hell of a lot of fun. Like the tour diary written entirely on the back of airplane vomit bags. The Christmas story written by a stoner country legend. The speculative novel about the many children of an obscure and bizarre voodoo-soul singer. The anthropological comparison of the tribes of Trump supporters to the fans of the <b>Insane Clown Posse</b>.<br />
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Yeah, right?<br />
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So let's get to the list:<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">WHO KNEW?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: orange;">Topics Obscure Yet Fascinating</span></b><br />
<i><b><a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/x-ray-audio-book/">X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music 'On the Bone'</a></b> </i>by Stephen Coates<br />
<i><b><a href="http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/11690.html">Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed Modern Music</a></b></i> by John W. Troutman<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">FIRE MUSIK</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: orange;">Jazz in the '70s</span></b><br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Jazz-Scratch-Golden-1966-72-ebook/dp/B00Y0IRDTE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479911349&sr=1-1&keywords=beyond+jazz">Beyond Jazz: Plink, Plonk and Scratch: The Golden Age of Free Music in London 1966-72</a> </b></i>by Trevor Barre<br />
<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285415"><b><i>Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s</i></b></a> by Michael C. Heller<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">GREY MATTERS</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: orange;">Stuff That, Like, Makes You Think</span></b></div>
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<i><b><a href="http://www.perseusacademic.com/book/hardcover/the-jazz-of-physics/9780465034994">The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe</a></b></i> by Stephon Alexander<br />
<b><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/242969/absolutely-on-music-by-haruki-murakami-with-seiji-ozawa/9780385354349/"><i>Absolutely on Music: Conversations</i></a></b> by Haruki Murakami & Seiji Osawa</div>
<i><b><a href="http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300211382/hatred-music">The Hatred of Music</a></b></i> by Pascal Quignard
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<b><span style="color: blue;">LA-LA LAND</span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: orange;">For a City That Can't Stop Reading About Itself</span></b><br />
<i><b><a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/hardcover/under-the-big-black-sun/9780306824081">Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk</a></b></i> by John Doe w/ Tom DeSavia<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.hatandbeard.com/product/i-slash-a-punk-magazine-from-los-angeles-19771980-i">Slash: A History of the Legendary L.A. Punk Magazine: 1977-1980</a></b></i> ed. by J.C. Gabel & Brian Roettinger<br />
<b><i><a href="https://www.angelcitypress.com/products/guth">Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941</a></i></b> by Darryl Holter & William F. Deverell<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-westhoff/original-gangstas/9780316344869/">Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap</a></b></i> by Ben Westhoff<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">HELLO AGAIN</span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: orange;">The Year's Best Reprints</span></b><br />
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<i><b><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/king-of-ragtime-9780199740321?cc=us&lang=en&">King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era</a></b> </i>by Edward A. Berlin<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.nyrb.com/products/really-the-blues?variant=6445981761">Really the Blues</a></b></i> by Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/michael-bloomfield-products-9781613733288.php">Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero</a></b> </i>by Ed Ward<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">SON OF HELLO AGAIN</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: orange;">The Year's Best Collections</span></b><br />
<a href="http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300212167/music-air"><b><i>Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason</i></b></a> ed. by Toby Gleason</div>
<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/murray-talks-music"><b><i>Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues</i></b></a> ed. by Paul Devlin<br />
<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/flyboy-2"><b><i>Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader</i></b></a> by Greg Tate <br />
<a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530897/virgil-thomson-the-state-of-music-and-other-writings-by-virgil-thomson--tim-page-editor/9781598534672/"><b><i>Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings</i></b></a> ed. by Tim Page<br />
<a href="http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9640-2"><b><i>Jazz on My Mind: Liner Notes, Anecdotes and Conversations from the 1940s to the 2000s</i></b></a> by Dr. Herb Wong & Paul Simeon Fingerote<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">"MIPPLES, MINN"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">Books About the Minneapolis Music Scene of the '80s To Tide Us Over Until Someone Writes the Defintive Bio of His Purpleness</span></b><br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/heyday">Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis</a></b></i> by Daniel Corrigan w/ Danny Sigelman<br />
<i><b><a href="http://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/i-live-inside">I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland</a></b> </i>by Michelle Leon<br />
<i><b><a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/trouble-boys/9780306822032">Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements</a></b></i> by Bob Mehr<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">GROK U</span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: orange;">The Continuing Excavation of the '60s</span></b><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"></span><i><b><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/bear/robertgreenfield/9781250081216">Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III</a></b></i> by Robert Greenfield<br />
<i><b><a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/small-town-talk/9780306823213">Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock</a></b></i> by Barney Hoskyns<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571277629-1966.html">1966: The Year the Decade Exploded</a></b> </i>by Jon Savage<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062444257/altamont">Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day</a></b></i></div>
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<i><b><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/into-the-maelstrom-music-improvisation-and-the-dream-of-freedom-9781501314513/">Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom Before 1970</a></b></i> by David Toop<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">IDENTIKIT</span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: orange;">Music + Sex + Race</span></b><br />
<b><i><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-bergner/sing-for-your-life/9780316300674/">Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family</a></i></b> by Daniel Bergner<br />
<i><b><a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=777">The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band</a></b> </i>by Michelle Cruz Gonzales<br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416598">Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination</a></i></b> by Jack Hamilton<br />
<i><b><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laura-jane-grace/tranny/9780316387958/">Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout</a></b></i> by Laura Jane Grace w/ Dan Ozzi<br />
<i><b><a href="http://thenewpress.com/books/humorless-ladies-of-border-control">The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar</a></b></i> by Franz Nicholay<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">ARCHITECTS</span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: orange;">Best Books About Pioneers</span></b><br />
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<i><b><a href="http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/traveling-soul-products-9781613736791.php">Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life</a></b></i> by David Cavanaugh<br />
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<em>The following is a work of fiction inspired in part by a true-life incident.</em></div>
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<em>It was originally written in 2005 to come to terms with racial dischord,</em></div>
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<em>violence and the effects of the Iraq War on our Midwestern hometown.</em></div>
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<em>We posted this in 2012 to address mass-casualty gun violence </em></div>
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<em>f</em><em>ollowing </em><em>the </em><em>murderous rampage in Newtown, Connecticut.</em></div>
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The grit-grey industrial city on the shores of Lake Michigan was known for the peculiar orneriness of its people. John Dillinger found that out when he drove into downtown on a windy day in 1933 to rob the American Bank and Trust and was told, <em>If you didn’t have that gun you wouldn't have that much guts.</em><br />
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The prickly dispositions had something to do with drinking, which also made for lousy and remorseful witnesses. <em>People die in bars here</em>, generations of Racine, Wisconsin homicide detectives advised their successors. <em>Double- and triple-check everything—and even then you won’t get everything.</em></div>
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This became painfully clear after the massacre at Rev’s Place on Wisconsin Avenue. None of the survivors were able to confirm exactly when the shooter first entered the corner tavern. They left investigators with a murky composite: dark-hooded jacket over blue worker’s overalls and scuffed crème-colored boots. One patron who sat next to him at the bar before he retreated to a corner pinball machine noticed a tattoo on the web of his left hand and a yellow lighter with the Green Bay Packers logo. Another insisted the Packers logo was the tattoo and the lighter was merely smudged.</div>
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As it was constructed later with great difficulty and waste of time in witness interviews, the trouble started with the arrival of “the Mexicans”—<em>five! No, three! No, twenty!</em> Some said they sat at a table near the door; others insisted they stood near the back. The regulars were collectively well-oiled, particularly a bull-necked Army recruiter with a fade-shave haircut named Harry J. Gelding, who wore white tennis shoes with no socks and long tan shorts advertising knees crisscrossed with surgery scars. Gelding kept stumbling into others in a friendly but aggressive way and nearly falling to the floor; like a cranked-up Russian he wanted everything around him to be as drunk and unruly as he and damn the cost.</div>
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Harry had a mouth and the Mexicans were not happy. They were part of a new influx that had seen many <em>taquerías</em> and <em>carnicerías</em>—signs hand-painted in blotchy deformed red and green lettering—appear on forgotten wet stretches of the rust-brown and cream-brick beige city where many of the old factories had moved south or east. Indeed, a few Latin-themed records had crept into the jukeboxes of the local taverns; they had just introduced a giant Chorizo to the grand costumed sausage race at Miller Park. But Gelding and his friends—the majority of people in the bar—were the remnants of the German and Danish sectors, the Slavs and the Poles and the Armenians, undemonstrative drinkers whose necks sunk into their collars as the night wore itself down and smeared halos grew around the beer lights. Gelding—charming some women nearby and laughing ar-har-har—was the only exception. As it turned out, the Mexicans thought so, too.</div>
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The next day, the <em>Journal Times</em> landed outside his second floor apartment, its front page showing the gaping ruins of Rev’s Place. Harry J. Gelding opened the paper, fuzzily rescreening the large brown women, two of them, strolling over in winter coats that swished like insect wings; oily ringlet hair and dark lines around their silver mouths; flat noses like bulbs of mushrooms and moles rat-a-tatted on their jowled cheeks; dangerously long nails just waiting to be stuck right in your eyes.</div>
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They chose their moment when he was in mid-swig: “Hey, choo spell my friend’s dreenk.”</div>
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Harry knew their men were pulling some sort of asymmetrical warfare: sending their women over to test the waters, to nudge him with the implicit knowledge that he was being nudged. The drink? Who knows? He might have spilled it, not the first time mind you. But he knew the drill: Every scrap-iron oldster in town was his friend for life after one beer spilled and rebought five years ago. It was shorthand that most of the city understood.</div>
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Harry told them, “Sure, sure I’ll buy you a <em>dreenk</em>, no problem.”</div>
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The hot radio-tube taste was already in his mouth, and he heard the downward chop of fate as the air became cold and hot and the Schlitz lamp above the pool table jumped to a heartbeat rhythm. Down the bar, Rev had fallen off his stool and was being picked up by the hands of his laughing friends, who were slapping him on the cheeks. Gelding saw then it was the Wild West. No police would even come into this neighborhood at this hour. If they did, someone would already have to be dead.</div>
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It had the queer slo-mo logic of gutter confrontations. It spun Gelding’s head around. These gorditas and their phoney-tough esses. They swaggered into this place and expected los gringos to shrink away to the shadows, trembling, backs against the pull-tab machines. Oh, oh no. No. Gelding knew crazy white boys. He considered himself one—of the Don’t Tread Here variety. And there was Guy.</div>
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Guy. One of the first to re-enlist when the country was attacked. Even before he left for the desert he was fond of saying, <em>If this is going to be a death struggle I say we get down to it for once and forever, toe to toe, just slam away at each other until there’s only one side left standing</em>. “And I wanna be there to kill ‘em on contact!” he’d add with a whoop, smacking his knees together and thumping his breastplate, unaware how much he sounded like a pesticide commercial. “Hell yeah we’re gonna come and take your oil!”<br />
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Gelding had never seen combat in twenty-three years in the military—only its edges in Germany and South Korea—while Guy rocked the Mog, Asscrackistan and Eye-Rag II. The only story Harry had to match ten of his was the Sergeant at the Eau Claire Recruiting Station who popped himself through the mouth a few weeks ago—sitting at his desk, no less—just as Harry was jumping in the car to go up to give him a review. Couldn’t handle the pressure of keeping his quota during such a hot time for the Company. Maybe the poor fuck had food spoiling at home. Gelding didn’t think much of it, really.</div>
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With the sickly-sweet light of the sun poking though the broken blinds and the sparkled dust floating over the tops of the beer bottles on his abraded coffee table, Gelding read on in stunned hungover silence,. A survivor, questioned by a young reporter for the <em>Racine Journal Times</em>, explained that “an Army-looking guy” had held up his hands to the Mexican women and offered to replace the drinks everyone watching and listening knew never existed. That was the first checkpoint, Gelding thought, absently touching the top of his head.</div>
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The second arrived less than five minutes later when, explaining to someone about how an Army quack botched his snip job, he was tapped on the shoulder and informed, “Yeah our men want drinks, too.”<br />
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That was it. Gelding wheeled his body full around on the stool and was about to lay into this burrito grande in a Raiders parka (<em>Raiders?!</em>) when Gelding’s Army girlfriend, a fireplug of a woman with pointed-up tits named Kelly-Lynn, stepped up and curled a sneer out along with her cig smoke: “Get your asses back to the ghetto where you belong.”<br />
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The whole line at the bar went <em>hooaahh</em> and there was the chittering sound of breaths being drawn into rib cages and held tight like rubber bands.<br />
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Bam. The gorditas were on Gelding’s lady like hot thrown tar. They surrounded her and pushed her back nearly halfway across the room, flattening her against the rail of the pool table, drowning her face in their palms, raking it red as pigmeat, upsetting the billiard placement. No one was prepared for the ferocity of the attack—even Gelding was taken aback. When Kelly-Lynn was pulled out of the twin wall of black parkas she had a piece of scalp missing from the top of her head and both her eyes were closed and glistening. Gelding could not believe it: she was <em>crying.</em><br />
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Kelly-Lynn was sexy in that sturdy tomboyish way: carrying Viagra in her purse and dropping it in his drink without warning; fucking him right through a flimsy shower stall wall in Bamberg wearing her combat boots; playing topless golf at Camp Bonifas and blowing kisses towards Pyongyang and the snipers of the Supreme Leader. Why couldn’t she use that moxie now, in this fine moment of step-up street theater?<br />
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Rev, awoken from his brown-liquor stupor, promptly ejected her from the bar. That pit-faced old redneck—how many beers bought for him?—was siding with the <em>Mexicans</em>. Gelding didn’t know what made his ankles wobbly at that moment but he hoped it wasn’t fear. (He wouldn’t know what that felt like anyway!) He managed to grab his coat and Kelly-Lynn in the same hand and backed them out of the front door into the whiplash cold. It sobered him up and Kelly-Lynn’s shrieking woke him up even more—except, wait, she was angry at him! Grabbing—no, pawing—his jacket and coughing up words like Harry Harry Harry oh god fuckin Harry I always stand up for you and you let them do that to me Harry. That made Gelding hot, and he turned and unleashed on Rev, who himself stood unsteadily in the open doorway and yelled, “Yer barred for life! Both o’ ye! Barred for life!” Behind him, behind the hands holding him back, behind the formless faces at the bar looking on in soused shock, Gelding heard the jukebox start up on a Selena tune.<br />
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That’s when the nausea started—every punch he had taken in every fight since he was five years old came back to him in one horrid whollop of gut pain like his stomach was being pan-fried. And lo, Army Staff Sergeant First Class Harry J. Gelding actually backed off the second time that night, grabbing Kelly-Lynn with her ropes of snot and wrestling the car door open and stuffing his wet mewling lady in the passenger side like she was a suit bag. It was an exquisite and agonizing opera on the cold dark street corner. Turns out, leaving at that moment saved their lives.<br />
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Seeing this from next room, the Mexican men were as ready as cobras, launching off their chairs, spinning the tall bar table until it fell over with a crash. The assailant had made his way to the back hallway right off the pool room, where the second girl was emerging from the ladies’ room, wiping the corners of her mouth with a piece of toilet paper. He came straight at her and used the pool cue like a spear and made a perfectly ruthless jab of the pointy blue end straight into the girl’s cheekbone, popping the eye socket. She made a sort of <em>huhhnnhh</em> sound and covered her face, sinking to one knee against the wall, the eye hanging at an odd angle like a tiny onion between her bloody fingers, iris furiously focusing and refocusing to the swinging pool lamp.</div>
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By this time, the <em>esses</em> were jamming their truck frames into the tiny hallway. The Men’s Room door was already bolted. Rev had passed out again and people were trying to raise him up off his oaken, USMC-tatted forearm to get him to pay attention to what was unfolding in the next room, where the bathroom door rumbled from the men’s hammering fists. One pulled something short and curled from his back pocket and started punching the door with its tip, making long ugly streaks of yellow woodgrain. Behind them, along with the shrieks of their one-eyed <em>gordita</em> whom they had passed without bending to help, pool players cradled the dented head of her partner, who had a queer clear fluid collecting under her nose.</div>
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The one witness in the tiny bathroom, a retired custodian at St. Catherine’s High School named Bob Steak, had emerged from the single shit stall to see an extremely skinny kid, stalk of his neck sticking out of mounds of clothing, newly shaved head, whole body resting against the door as he listened to the pounding and cries of <em>Muerto!</em> coming from the other side. Steak was hard of hearing and therefore didn’t appreciate the situation. “Everything okay there son,” was his gentlemanly way of trying to get the kid to move to the side so he could wash his hands in the white sink with the orange rust ring.</div>
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The kid didn’t move. He heard the kid say, “Get back if you know what’s good for you.” His voice vibrated slightly from the drum beats against the door. Steak did as he was told. He didn’t like the egg-yolk color of the kid’s eyes, nor that his teeth had braces. Streak stood in the stall as the toilet calmed down behind his knees. It was from there he saw everything.</div>
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He saw the kid wrap a blue bandanna around his bald dome and step back from the door and turn towards it as if he were about to start an argument. Up in his hand came something Steak immediately identified as a 9mm semiautomatic. He heard the kid say something very carefully and slowly to him, nodding to make sure it had sunk in, before he fired three rounds through the door, two at waist level and then one straight ahead. He saw the kid daintily unlock the door and crouch as he opened it, springing off one boot into the hallway. Steak knew a 9mm pistol could hold up to 24 rounds but heard so many overlapping shots and screams he lost count.</div>
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Steak peered his head out of the bathroom to try to listen to the kid deliver some sort of speech to the now-emptied bar. He couldn’t hear it all so Steak came slowly out of the bathroom. He averted his eyes from the bodies lying in the hallway and walked carefully towards where the kid was pointing the pistol straight down into the face of a large woman in a dark parka who lay half-under the pool table with one leg twisted outwards at an intolerable angle. As he edged closer, he heard the kid speaking to the head beneath the gun’s sights:</div>
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Steak was wrenched by this scene, his stomach filling up with acid soup and his knee quivering and threatening to give out. It was pornographic, made ridiculous by the movie quality of it all. In Korea, you didn’t make speeches, you just shot them. There wasn’t that much intrigue about it except for what you went through in the dark in the maddeningly quiet nights back home. This kid seemed to roll off his revenge scroll as if he had been practicing before a mirror, with such a robotic quality that it led Steak to believe someone had taught it to him, drilled it into him, had him repeat it over and over until the kid was parroting the voice of the teacher, not his own.</div>
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Steak stepped up and said, “Okay son, okay. She’s dying, okay, can’t you see her pupils? Let her alone, alright? See that on her face? That ain’t snot—it’s spinal fluid. Okay?” When Steak added “You won,” the kid shot the woman three times in the face, the chamber snapping itself empty. Steak dropped his hand and stepped back.</div>
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The bar was quiet and reeked of liquor, urine, sweat and cordite. Broken glass lay in pools of blood and beer mashed by panicked boot prints into a rancid tapestry. A forest of glasses and bottles sat abandoned on the bar, lit by the beer lights and the fading red pulses of cigarettes dying in separate ashtrays. The swinging bulbs from the broken pool-table lamp had stabilized but their queasiness was replaced by the rotating splashes of red coming from the squad cars that were just beginning to pull up in the cold outside.</div>
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The kid flipped up his hood, hefted the 9mm and jammed his other hand so deep into his other pocket that it looked as if he was stabbing himself. He looked back at Steak and grinned, the braces on his teeth black and oily. Steak heard the kid as clean and as clear as each single dew drop off a wet twig:</div>
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The kid kicked open the front door, shattering it against the side of the building as he walked forward hollering, “Light it up you shitasses, light it up now.” Then the metallic echo of a loudspeaker—“put the gun down put the gun down put it down put the goddamn thing down now now now”—as the kid exploded. The concussion blew out all the windows of the bar and threw the death scene into blackness and caused Steak’s knee to pop as he sank to the floor, passing out from the pain and the<br />
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When Guy came home from his second tour his hair had turned a salt-and-pepper color and his teeth seemed permanently browned. He kept talking about parasites and how it took him two days to eat half a sandwich. Mixing and matching his Remeron and Depakote with Zoloft, washing them down with beer, his friend of thirty-two years had concluded: <em>They came from all over the world to kill us.</em></div>
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Harry knew enough not to ask him about the war, just to wait until he was ready. You just knew it was an intimate thing. When Guy Cunniver spoke of it at all, it was with little teasing shreds, not any direct remembrance of what he had seen or inflicted but odd, small facts with no context. He spoke of dreams of smoking meth with his dead mother and the puffs of smoke coming out of her mouth in perfect round black balls, shiny like the beads he saw in a straw basket in some filthy market in Haditha. He referenced the phrase “skull orchard” as he rubbed his neck tattoos red. Since he returned to Racine, he’d walk down the street and a small fox’s head—just the head—would be following him, floating in the air over his right shoulder. Other times, he saw black flags flapping in trees or from the tops of houses. At night he would be pursued by giant camel spiders—<em>shitloads of them, Harry</em>—who snuck in perfect attack formation across lawns and down the sides of his bedroom walls and even up through the cracks in his floor. Whenever he sensed them coming, his ears would cease giving him sound and he would become deathly afraid of smells. <em>I think I was supposed to buy it</em>, Guy said. <em>I just kept missing it</em>.<br />
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The massacre was all over the local news—Good lord, they couldn't get over it!—and Harry switched all the screens in the bar to the Badgers game. Strangely, they played to a dead room and Gelding was unnerved by the lack of customers—not one of his friends came in or called to ask, Dude what happened last night? It left him alone with his thoughts. Right before dusk, a guy wobbled up to the bar and handed him back a plastic Bud Lite bucket full of empty shorties and icewater: “Hey guy, take care of these dead soldiers.”</div>
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Memories came flooding through Harry’s head again. Lately, Guy had been making cracks that on the surface sounded like his usual sick jokes: <em>Your recruiting station with all those shiny new government vehicles, Harry, I could hit that place so easily. “88th Regional Readiness Command”?—Shit, I could kill every Fobbit in there if I wanted. I could even go to the cop station downtown and rain a little Najaf or Ramadi on their sleepy fat asses. I could make them tapdance and moonwalk.</em><br />
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Nominally a jazz writer-blogger, Marc Myers collects some of his <i>Wall Street Journal</i> columns in <i><b><a href="http://www.anatomyofasong.com/services.html">Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop</a></b></i>. (Read <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/11/01/why-london-calling-matters-it-is-incredibly-in-touch-and-ahead-of-its-time-for-british-punk/">this interview</a> with Myers about the Clash's "London Calling.") The sad departure of the Purple One this year coincides with a wave of nostalgia for the scruffy but hugely influential <b>Minnesota music scene</b>: photographer Daniel Corrigan collects his favorite images in <i><b><a href="http://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/heyday">Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis</a></b></i> (check out <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/photo-gallery/9956-the-man-who-shot-all-of-minneapolis-sounds/">this Pitchfork profile</a>) and veteran Twin Cities music scribe Jim Walsh collects his own <i><b><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/bar-yarns-and-manic-depressive-mixtapes">Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes</a></b></i>. Pittsburgh U music prof Michael C. Heller delved into the personal collections of many of New York's finest jazz masters to tell the story of <i><b><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520285415">Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s</a></b></i>. As they always do towards the end of the year, bios and memoirs are coming fast and furious: Tool/Puscifer frontman <b>Maynard James Keenan</b>'s <i><b><a href="https://puscifer.com/product/book-a-perfect-union-of-contrary-things/">A Perfect Union of Contrary Things</a></b></i> (watch the book trailer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l-4EKJhuCg">here</a>); former enigmatic guitar whiz for the Smiths <b>Johnny Marr</b>'s <i><b><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062438690/set-the-boy-free">Set the Boy Free</a></b></i> by Johnny Marr (go <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/29/johnny-marr-the-smiths-morrissey-simon-hattenstone">here</a> for a recent interview); <i><b><a href="http://robbie-robertson.com/testimony-a-memoir/">Testimony</a></b></i> by <b>Robbie Robertson</b> (read an excerpt <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/10/making-of-the-last-waltz-the-band">here</a>); and Against Me! frontperson <b>Laura Jane Grace</b>'s <i><b><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/laura-jane-grace/tranny/9780316387958/">Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout</a></b></i> (go <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/tranny-confessions-of-punk-rocks-most-infamous-anarchist-sellout-excerpt-v23n07">here</a> for an excerpt). But probably the most out-of-the-box choice for a music bio would be a famed LSD chemist, but in <i><b><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/bear/robertgreenfield">Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III</a>, </b></i>Robert Greenfield makes the case for the man Steely Dan once dubbed "Kid Charlemagne." (Go <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/owsley-stanley-the-king-of-lsd-20110314">here</a> for Greenfield's <i>Rolling Stone</i> profile of Stanley.) The handsome oral-history volume <b><i><a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/music/new-releases/no-half-steppin/">No Half Steppin'</a></i></b> also collects photographer Claude "Paradise" Gray's documenting of the pioneering hip hop scene at NYC's Latin Quarter club. Those who loved <i>1Q84</i> and <i>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</i> by the Japanese novelist <b>Haruki Murakami</b> know that music often plays subtle but pivotal roles in his novel; his new collection <i><b><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/242969/absolutely-on-music-by-haruki-murakami-translated-by-jay-rubin/9780385354349/">Absolutely on Music: Conversations</a></b></i> should not disappoint. And for Ed Ward's first volume of <b><i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thehistoryofrockrollvolume1/edward">The History of Rock & Roll, Volume I: 1920-1963</a></i></b>, we pray that its fascinating epic scope (part 1 starts in 1920) will not render it as virtually unreadable as Ward's 1986 tome <i>Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll</i>. FINGERS CROSSED.<br />
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First Third Books unveils the photo album <b><i><a href="http://www.firstthirdbooks.com/product/b/">Big Star: Isolated in the Light</a></i></b> while, to the immense consternation of its control-freak subject, writer Nick Hasted unveils <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jack-White-Built-Empire-Blues/dp/1468313770/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475759991&sr=1-2&keywords=citizen+jack">Citizen Jack: How Jack White Built an Empire From the Blues</a></i></b>. Amend these volumes with Michael Buffalo Smith's <i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Capricorn-Rising-Conversations-Southern-American/dp/088146578X">Capricorn Rising: Conversations in Southern Rock</a></b></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span>The life of the great soul <i>auteur</i> <b>Curtis Mayfield</b> is remembered by his son Todd in <a href="http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/traveling-soul-products-9781613736791.php" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Traveling Soul</a> while roots-Americana auteur <b>T-Bone Burnett</b> is given the same treatment in Lloyd Sach's <b><i><a href="http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/sachs-t-bone-burnett">A Life in Pursuit</a></i></b>. Emily Lordi adds to Bloomsbury's <b>33 1/3</b> series with <b><i><a href="https://333sound.com/2014/05/31/new-33-13-title-donny-hathaways-donny-hathaway-live/">Donny Hathaway Live</a></i></b>. A month after Beach Boys blowhard <b>Mike Love'</b>s bitter autobiography comes bandmate Brian Wilson's long-awaited (and thrillingly titled) memoir <b><i><a href="http://www.dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/i-am-brian-wilson/9780306823077">I Am Brian Wilson</a></i></b>. Coinciding with <b>Jim Jarmusch</b>'s eagerly awaited documentary<i> Gimme Danger</i> comes the Jon Savage/Jeff Gold-edited <b><i><a href="http://thirdmanbooks.com/book/total-chaos-the-story-of-the-stooges-as-told-by-iggy-pop">Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges</a></i></b>. Historian Toby Mott curates <b><i><a href="http://www.phaidon.com/store/fashion-culture/oh-so-pretty-punk-in-print-1976-1980-9780714872759/">Oh So Pretty! Punk in Print, 1976-1980</a></i></b>. With the rise of interest in <b>Afrofuturism</b>, Paul Youngquist illuminates one of its architects -- the mercurial "Space Jazz" bandleader <b>Sun Ra</b> -- in <b><i><a href="http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/youngquist-a-pure-solar-world">A Pure Solar World</a></i></b>. Another kind of futurism rears its mascaraed eyes in Simon Reynolds' <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062279804/shock-and-awe"><b><i>Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century</i></b></a>. David Hadju gives his own "personal and idiosyncratic" memoir of pop music in <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/loveforsale/davidhajdu"><b><i>Love for Sale</i></b></a>. The bowler hat-wearing Rice Miller was actually the second blues harpist known as "Sonny Boy" Williamson; author<br />
Mitsutoshi Inaba searches for the life of the first in <b><i><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442254428/John-Lee-%22Sonny-Boy%22-Williamson-The-Blues-Harmonica-of-Chicago's-Bronzeville">John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville</a></i></b>. Now that it's October and the weather's getting shittier, why not load up on the pleth of books about Great Britain -- Rizzoli's deluxe $160 doorstop <i><b><a href="http://shop.mexicansummer.com/product/god-save-sex-pistols-deluxe-edition/">God Save Sex Pistols</a></b></i>, Lol Tolhurst's <b><i><a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/cured/9780306824296">Cured: A Tale of Two Imaginary Boys</a></i></b>, Jenn Pelly's <b><i><a href="https://333sound.com/2014/06/01/new-33-13-title-the-raincoats-the-raincoats/">The Raincoats</a></i></b>, and synth wizard <b>Thomas Dolby</b>'s memoir <b><i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thespeedofsound/thomasdolby">The Speed of Sound</a></i></b> -- and New York -- Steven Blush's <b><i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/newyorkrock/stevenblush">New York Rock</a></i></b>, <b>Lil Wayne</b>'s Riker's Island memoir <b><i><a href="http://www.lilwaynehq.com/business-ventures/book/">Gone 'Til November</a></i></b> and Peter Ames Carlin's Paul Simon bio <b><i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/homewardbound/peteramescarlin">Homeward Bound</a></i></b>. And just the title of dark Americana prince <b>Nick Cave</b>'s new tour memoir seals the deal: <i><b><a href="http://www.thesickbagsong.com/">The Sick Bag Song</a></b></i> -- essentially, a diary written entirely on airplane vomit bags. Awesome.</div>
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The reprint of Ed Ward's <b><i><a href="http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/michael-bloomfield-products-9781613733288.php">Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero</a></i></b> apparently has so much new material it should be considered a brand-new book. (Watch the book promo <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0j_nYId-H0">here</a>.) Chuck Eddy's <b><i><a href="http://s%20appreciation%20of%20the%20lost%2C%20ignored%2C%20and%20maligned./">Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music</a></i></b> makes a case for an "appreciation of the lost, ignored, and maligned." (Read a review <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/review/terminated-for-reasons-of-taste-other-ways-to-hear-essential-and-inessentia/">here</a>.) For over a decade, Guido Harari was singer <b>Kate Bush</b>'s official photographer; <b><i><a href="http://www.wallofsoundgallery.com/en/the-kate-inside-by-guido_harari/the-kate-inside.php">The Kate Inside, 1982-1993</a></i></b> is a limited edition collection of his most indelible images of the British siren. (See a smattering of them <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/kate-bush-see-stunning-vintage-photos-from-new-book-w437203/kate-bush-19892016-w437206">here</a>.) <b>Jim Marshall</b>, another veteran photog, trains his camera eye on the <b><i><a href="http://www.reelartpress.com/catalog/edition/90/jazz-festival-jim-marshall">Jazz Festival</a></i></b>. (Read a profile of Marshall <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/03/jazz-festival-rock-jim-marshall-photographer-monterey-newport">here</a>.) Barry Miles reveals the little-known history of The Beatles' short-loved experimental record label in <b><i><a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/zapple-diaries_9781419722219/">The Zapple Diaries</a></i></b>. Barry Miles adds to a recent spate of superb studies of race and American music in <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416598"><b><i>Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination</i></b></a>. Thames + Hudson rolls out a pricey 400-page coffee table celebration of <b><i><a href="http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/motown-the-sound-of-young-america-hardcover">Motown: The Sound of Young America</a></i></b>. This couldn't have been more well (or sadly) timed: The recently departed <b>Maurice White</b>'s posthumous memoir <b><i><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062329158/my-life-with-earth-wind-and-fire">My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire</a></i></b>.<br />
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Rush drummer <b>Neil Peart</b> continues his road diaries with the new volume <b><i><a href="http://ecwpress.com/products/far-and-wide">Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!</a></i></b> Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series continues unabated with <b><a href="https://333sound.com/2014/05/27/new-33-13-title-the-jesus-and-mary-chains-psychocandy/"><i>The Jesus and Mary Chain's </i>Psychocandy</a></b>. (Read a Q&A with author Paula Meija <a href="https://333sound.com/2014/08/25/the-33-13-new-author-qa-paula-meija/">here</a>.) <i>L.A. Weekly </i>scribe Ben Westhoff tells a LoCal tale in <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-westhoff/original-gangstas/9780316383899/"><b><i>Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap</i></b></a>. Daniel Bergner went from trailer park with an abusive mother to juvenile solitary confinement to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York; read about how he got there in <b><i><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-bergner/sing-for-your-life/9780316300674/">Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family</a></i></b>. Tim Lawrence focuses on a vibrant and gritty account of <b><i><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/life-and-death-on-the-new-york-dance-floor-1980-1983?viewby=author&lastname=Lawrence&firstname=Tim&middlename=&sort=newest">Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983</a></i></b> while the hangovers of AIDS and Reagan were beginning to kick in. Nathan Rabin follows up his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Know-Like-Misadventures/dp/1451626886/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475759153&sr=1-3&keywords=nathan+rabin">2013 study of musical subcultures</a> with an intriguing side-by-side comparisons of music and politics in the ebook <i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.follownews.com/whos-the-real-insane-clown-posse-trump-fans-give-juggalos-a-run-for-their-money-in-7-days-in-ohio-1w6z3">7 Days In Ohio: Trump, The Gathering Of The Juggalos And The Summer Everything Went Insane</a></i>. Martin Hawkins excavates the life of <b><i><a href="http://lsupress.org/books/detail/slim-harpo/">Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge</a></i></b>. With the death this year of the colorful Texas troubadour <b>Guy Clark</b>, Tamara Saviano's bio <b><i><a href="http://www.tamupress.com/product/Without-Getting-Killed-or-Caught,8591.aspx">Without Getting Killed or Caught</a></i></b> couldn't have come at a more poignant time. Clark, along with <b>Townes Van Zandt</b> and <b>Kris Kristofferson</b>, is part of an academic collection of articles in <b><i><a href="http://www.tamupress.com/product/Pickers-and-Poets,8575.aspx">Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas</a></i></b>.<br />
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Following recent "pivotal year" books on 1965 and 1966, David Hepworth declares 1971 "the year that rock exploded" in <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/neveradullmoment/davidhepworth"><b><i>Never a Dull Moment</i></b></a>. (Read a review <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/was-1971-the-greatest-year-in-pop-history/">here</a>.) The great tenor saxophonist <b>Benny Golson</b> recalls his tutelage under <b>John Coltrane</b> (and many other memories) in <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2394_reg.html"><b><i>Whisper Not</i></b></a>. (Read a review <a href="http://www.londonjazznews.com/2016/05/book-review-benny-golson-and-jim-merod.html">here</a>.) George Plasketes plumbs the life and career of L.A.'s answer to Elvis Costello in <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442234567/Warren-Zevon-Desperado-of-Los-Angeles"><b><i>Warren Zevon: Desperado of Los Angeles</i></b></a>. (Read about Zevon's wild life <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/01/warren-zevon-werewolves-of-london-demons">here</a>.) Brendan Mullen, Jello Biafra, Mike Watt, Lorna Doom, Ian Mackaye and Malcolm McLaren all contribute to <a href="http://gingkopress.com/shop/fucked-up-reader/"><b><i>The Fucked Up Reader</i></b></a>. Martin Power offers <a href="http://www.amazon.com/No-Quarter-Three-Lives-Jimmy/dp/1468312146"><i><b>No Quarter</b></i></a> in his new biography on the life -- well, three, actually -- of Led Zeppelin guitarist James Patrick Page. Newly reminted Hold Steady keyboardist Franz Nicholay tours the global punk underground in <a href="http://thenewpress.com/books/humorless-ladies-of-border-control"><b><i>The Humorless Ladies of Border Control</i></b></a>. (Read an excerpt <a href="http://www.whatstheruckus.com/2012/10/the-humorless-ladies-of-border-patrol-ukraine-to-russia-a-tour-diary-by-franz-nicolay.html">here</a>.) It's been delayed for at least a couple months, but let's hope Hat & Beard's 500-page <a href="http://www.hatandbeard.com/product/i-slash-a-punk-magazine-from-los-angeles-19771980-i"><b><i>Slash: A History of the Legendary LA Punk Magazine: 1977-1980</i></b></a> lives up to all the hype. If not, Circle Jerks head honcho Keith Morris' <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Damage-Story-Punk-Survivor/dp/030682406X">My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor</a> </i></b>should prove to be a lively companion. One of the founding members of NYC's Black Rock Coalition, Greg Tate, releases his second essay collection <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/flyboy-2"><b><i>Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader</i></b></a>, while Ed Piskor adds a fourth volume to his gorgeous graphic novel series <a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/hiphop4/"><b><i>The Hip Hop Family Tree</i></b></a>. The Library of America celebrates the life and career of an influential American composer with the collection <b><i><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530897/virgil-thomson-the-state-of-music-and-other-writings-by-virgil-thomson--tim-page-editor/9781598534672/">Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings</a></i></b>. For better or worse, dance music is finally getting the rigorous academic treatment with Grafton Tanner <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Babbling-Corpse-Vaporwave-Commodification-Ghosts/dp/1782797599/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Babbling Corpses</a> and the essay collection <a href="http://blackdogonline.com/all-books/rave.html"><b><i>RAVE</i></b></a>. Not exactly beach reads, these.<br />
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Ricardo Cavolo's hallucinatory folk art is the highlight of Scott McClanahan's graphic novel <b><i><a href="http://twodollarradio.com/products/daniel-johnston">The Incantations of Daniel Johnston</a></i></b>. (Read an interview with McClanahan <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/07/15/the_mystique_of_daniel_johnston_theres_something_ancient_in_all_of_this_the_notion_of_the_eccentric/">here</a>.) The concert festival that allegedly killed the 1960s finally gets its own book in Joel Selvin's <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062444257/altamont"><b><i>Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day</i></b></a>. Yacht rock's gruesome twosome of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen get their laundry aired in a new expanded reissue of Brian Sweet's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Steely-Dan-Reelin-Brian-Sweet/dp/1468313142"><b><i>Steely Dan: Reelin' in the Years</i></b></a>. When the Brooklyn alt-rock venue Death by Audio shut its doors in 2014, they held an epic 75-day goodbye party that was documented by photog Ebru Yildiz in <a href="http://freewilliamsburg.com/weve-come-so-far-death-by-audio-photography-book/"><b><i>We've Come So Far</i></b></a>. (Look at some of her amazing images <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/05/13/ebru_yildiz_photographs_the_last_days_of_death_by_audio_in_her_book_we_ve.html">here</a>.) If you enjoyed the recent documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's epic citizenship battle, Leon Wildes, the lawyer who took their case, tells the inside story of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-Lennon-vs-U-S-Influential/dp/1634254260/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475678241&sr=1-1&keywords=the+us+vs+john+lennon"><b><i>John Lennon vs. The U.S.A.</i></b></a> Meanwhile, back in the UK: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Punk-London-1977-Derek-Ridgers/dp/190821144X"><b><i>Punk London. 1977: The Roxy, The Vortex, King's Road and Beyond</i></b></a> as photographed by Derek Ridgers. Indie-rock godheads like he Sea and Cake, Interpol, Low, Vandermark Five, The Arcade Fire and The Flaming Lips all played Chicago's Empty Bottle bar; now the plucky lil' dive gets an extravagant art-book treatment in John Dugan's <a href="http://www.curbsidesplendor.com/books/the-empty-bottle-book-twenty-plus-years-of-piss-sht-broken-urinals-pre-order"><b><i>The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years of Music / Friendly / Dancing</i></b></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>John Powell endeavors to explain <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-powell/why-you-love-music/9781478987451/"><b><i>Why You Love Music</i></b></a> while Olivia Grbac attempts the same for <a href="http://heliopress.bigcartel.com/product/shit-people-at-gigs-by-olivia-grbac"><b><i>Shit People at Gigs</i></b></a>. Paul Morley looks back on <a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Age-of-Bowie/Paul-Morley/9781501151156"><b><i>The Age of Bowie</i></b></a>. Almost by accident, Jace Clayton becomes a DJ and winds up traveling the world; he tells what he found in <a href="http://uprootbook.com/"><b><i>Uproot: Travels in21st Century Music and Digital Culture</i></b></a>. Andrew Matheson's memoir <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534907/sick-on-you-by-andrew-matheson/9780399185335/"><i><b>Sick on You: The Disastrous Story of The Hollywood Brats</b></i></a> satisfies our taste for glorious unsung failures, while our fascination with "playlist lit" (a.k.a., "listicle lit") continues with Michael Rubens' YA novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Decisions-Playlist-Michael-Rubens/dp/0544096673"><i><b>T</b></i><b><i>he Bad Decisions Playlist</i></b></a> and ex-MTV VJ Dave Holmes' <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Party-One-Memoir-21-Songs/dp/0804187983/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475680714&sr=1-1&keywords=Party+of+One%3A+A+Memoir+in+21+Songs"><i><b>Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs</b></i></a>. And, barely six months after the death of David Bowie, <i>Your Band Is Killing Me</i> author Rob Sheffield offers perhaps the first significant piece of posthumous appreciation in <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062562722/on-bowie"><b><i>On Bowie</i></b></a>. (Check out Sheffield's Spotify playlist <a href="https://play.spotify.com/user/deystreetbooks/playlist/6dyd7ckVLyDzRqYVxh5PLo?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open">here</a>.)<br />
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Mmmff, this should keep us all full for awhile...</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/05/18/to_know_bowie_kendrick_and_gaga_you_have_to_know_your_jazz_there_is_an_artisan_movement_going_on_in_music_now_just_as_there_is_in_food/">THE MUSIC FOODIES: How Jazz Became an Artisan's Movement</a> </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>SALON</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/20/478244368/an-underground-supper-club-where-music-moves-the-menu">How NYC's Loft Jazz Scene Inspired A New Underground Restaurant</a></b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NPR</i>)</span></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/son-detroit-dilla-remembered/">SON OF DETROIT: The Oral History of J. Dilla</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>WAX POETICS</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/which-rock-star-will-historians-of-the-future-remember.html">Which Rock Star Will Future Historians Remember?</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NY TIMES MAGAZINE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/talempongbatu">Listening to West Sumatra's Musical Megaliths</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>AURAL ARCHIPELAGO</i>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/bill-bratton-nypd-thugs-rap/484562/"></a><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/bill-bratton-nypd-thugs-rap/484562/"><b>Bill Bratton's Strange, Old-School Linkage of "Thugs" with Rap</b></a></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD54/PoD54AACM.html">CROWD-SOURCED: The AACM Revisited</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>POINT OF DEPARTURE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://how%20nyc%27s%20loft%20jazz%20scene%20inspired%20a%20new%20underground%20restaurant%20%28npr%29/">SIGN THE PETITION: Save The Smell, L.A.'s Flagship DIY Music Venue</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>iPETITION</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://jazztimes.com/articles/171966-jazz-s-funniest-musicians">HEAR YOU BREATHING: Jazz's Funniest Musicians</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>JAZZ TIMES</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1876792/these-guys-rocked-the-house-10-surreal-moments-when-90s-rock-music-met-mainstream-tv/franchises/weird-90s/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign">The 10 Weirdest Indie Rock-TV Crossovers of the Nineties</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>STEREOGUM</i>)</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1878031/falling-hook-line-and-sinker-for-john-luries-fishing-with-john/franchises/weird-90s/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign"><b>HOOK LINE SINK: Revisiting John Lurie's Strange and Wonderful Fishing Show</b> </a><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>STEREOGUM</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/much-ado-muchness/">MUCH ADO ABOUT MUCHNESS: The Man Who Introduced China to Rock 'n' Roll</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>LARB</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/05/08/477040062/how-one-man-made-the-eiffel-tower-sing">Meet the Composer Who Made the Eiffel Tower Sing</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NPR CLASSICAL</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9894-the-dark-art-of-mastering-music/">The Dark Art of Mastering Music</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>PITCHFORK MEDIA</i>)</span></div>
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<a href="https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/jean-michel-jarre-edward-snowden-exit-collaboration-interview"><b>Edward Snowden: Unlikely Techno Sta</b>r</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>VICE MUSIC</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/film/2016/04/20/23979828/great-black-actor-makes-miles-davis-look-like-a-fool-in-miles-ahead">RANT: A Great Black Actor Makes Miles Davis Look Like A Fool</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE STRANGER</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2016/05/13/48861/review-after-death-pianist-forrest-westbrook-finds/">The Rediscovered Jazz Artistry of Forrest Westbrook</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>OFF RAMP</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://musictechpolicy.com/2016/05/15/guest-post-by-schneidermaria-open-letter-to-youtube-pushers-of-piracy/">"PUSHERS OF PIRACY": An Open Letter to YouTube</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>MUSIC-TECH-POLICY</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/congresss-chance-to-be-fair-to-musicians">This Is Congress' Chance to Be Fair to Musicians</a> </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE NEW YORKER</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2016/05/16/exclusive-cover-story-excerpt-les-claypool-and-sean-lennon-interviewed-by-wilcos-nels-cline/">EXCERPT: Nels Cline Interviews Sean Lennon and Les Claypool</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>MAGNET</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/41843/aquarius-records-releases-fanzine-of-50-favourite-records-of-last-20-years">Aquarius Records Release Fanzine of 50 Favorite Records Since 1996</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE WIRE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/armenian-djs-are-bringing-traditional-sounds-into-underground-dance-music-6936250">Armenian DJs Are Bringing Traditional Sounds into Underground Dance Music</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>LA WEEKLY</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/are-you-big-jazz-boy-or-little-jazz-boy-1081">QUIZ: Are You A Big Jazz Boy or a Little Jazz Boy?</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>CLICKHOLE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/op-ed-living-colour-bad-brains-and-fishbone-made-history-fighting">How Living Colour, Bad Brains and Fishbone Fought Gentrification</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>AFROPUNK</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/05/why_cellists_like_sergei_roldugin_are_the_most_rebellious_musicians_in_the.html">REBELS WITH BOWS: Why Cellists Are the Crankiest Musicians</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>SLATE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opinion/sunday/the-trombone-comes-home.html?_r=0">The Trombone Comes Home</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NY TIMES</i>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://ronanguil.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-current-face-of-bass.html"><b>The Current Face of the Bass</b></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>MOSTLY MUSIC</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/post/rbma-spiritual-night-jazz/">SLIDESHOW: Sun Ra Arkestra, Pharaoh Sanders + Kamasi Washington in <i>A Night of Spiritual Jazz</i></a></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>POPMATTERS</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/known-video-louis-armstrong-recording-studio-recently-found/">Recently Discovered! The Only Known Video of Louis Armstrong in a Recording Studio</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>LAMAG</i>)</span><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-infiltration-of-black-rap-1981-86-3d4332078bc4#.m43uqha0z">THE INFILTRATION OF BLACK RAP: The Untold Story of Hip Hop's Early Entrepreneurs</a> </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>CUEPOINT</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jazz-for-the-thrill-of-it/">JAZZ FOR THE THRILL OF IT: Chris Becker Interviews Grace Kelly</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>LARB</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-greatest-electronic-albums-of-the-1950s-and-1960s-2/">The Greatest Electronic Albums of the '50s and '60s</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE VINYL FACTORY</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/comments/crucial_photos_of_the_san_francisco_punk_scene_1977_1982">PHOTOLOG: Amazing Images from the San Francisco Punk Scene, 1977-82</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-17-year-old-boys-who-just-discovered-the-doors">An Open Letter to 17-Year-Old Boys Who Just Discovered the Doors</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>MCSWEENEY'S</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/05/23/the_biggest_surprises_in_billboard_s_first_issue.html">Read the Very First Issue of <i>Billboard</i>, Dated 11/1/1894</a></b> (<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>BROWBEAT</i></span>)<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.thefader.com/2016/05/05/jazz-will-always-be-relevant?utm_source=f">Why Jazz Will Always Be Relevant</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE FADER</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.seedandspark.com/studio/warne-marsh-improvised-life#updates/5692">HOME THEATER: <i>Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life</i></a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>SEED & SPARK</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9886-blood-and-echoes-the-story-of-come-out-steve-reichs-civil-rights-era-masterpiece/">BLOOD AND ECHOES: The Story Behind Steve Reich's Civil Rights Era Masterpiece</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>PITCHFORK MEDIA</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1jQdY-Dwzk">ARCHIVES: Watch An Entire Black Flag Concert from 1982</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>YOUTUBE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/19/how-we-made-laurie-anderson-o-superman?CMP=share_btn_fb">HOW WE MADE IT: Laurie Anderson's "O Superman"</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE GUARDIAN</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.keyboardmag.com/artists/1236/carla-bley---first-lady-of-the-avant-garde/57702">Carla Bley: First Lady of the Avant-Garde</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>KEYBOARD</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/how-jazz-saved-hip-hop-again">How Jazz Saved Hip-Hop (Again)</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>PLAYBOY</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://noisey.vice.com/blog/a-look-back-on-atom-and-his-package?utm_source=vicefbus">The One-Man Band That Almost Made Punk Uncool (Again)</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NOISEY</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/prince-is-hip-hop-by-questlove/">?uestlove on Why Prince is Hip-Hop</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>WAX POETICS)</i></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/kind-of-purple-jazz-musicians-on-prince-prince-by-kurt-gottschalk.php#.Vxk1Z7q_rUU.facebook">KIND OF PURPLE: Jazz Musicians on Prince</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>ALL ABOUT JAZZ</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.anothermag.com/design-living/8545/scandal-sleaze-and-punk-rock-inside-the-tropicana-motel">SCANDAL, SLEAZE + PUNK ROCK: Inside the Tropicana Motel</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>ANOTHERMAG</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.primemind.com/articles/ramones-and-rap-a-shared-history?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=feed&utm_content=vara&utm_campaign=identity">The Ramones & Rap: A Shared History?</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>PRIMEMIND</i>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://jazzchill.blogspot.com/2016/05/miles-davis-universe-of-cool-visualized.html"><b>INFOGRAPHIC: The Miles Davis Universe. Visualized</b></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER</i>)</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogthehum.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/a-documentary-on-david-s-ware-from-2000/">WATCH: A 2000 Documentary on David S. Ware</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>BLOG THE HUM</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/05/a-guide-to-diamanda-galas-work">A Guide to the Work of Diamanda Galás</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://medium.com/@musicFIRST/t-bone-burnetts-remarks-on-music-and-the-american-story-4b877fb66540#.q8pke9f5s">T-Bone Burnett's Stirring Speech About Music and the American Story</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>MEDIUM</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/news/a44492/kamasi-washington-summer-tour/">Kamasi Washington on the Pressures of Being Called "Jazz's Savior"</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>ESQUIRE</i>)</span><br />
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<a href="http://revive-music.com/2016/05/12/16-pieces-of-protest-jazz-for-2016/"><b>16 Pieces of Protest Jazz for 2016</b></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>REVIVE MUSIC</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://neutralgroundnews.com/man-searches-for-elusive-jazz-at-jazz-fest/">Man Actually Tries to Find Jazz at a Jazz Fest</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NEUTRAL GROUND NEWS</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2016/05/02/48483/the-long-lost-atomic-cafe-little-tokyo-s-punk-have/">ATOMIC CAFE: The Long Lost Little Punk Haven of L.A.'s Little Tokyo</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>OFF RAMP</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/how-to-pick-music-for-people-on-lsd-from-a-scientist-whose-job-that-is">ASK A SCIENTIST: How to Pick Music for People on LSD</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>MOTHERBOARD</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://ethaniverson.com/interview-with-wayne-shorter/">Q&A: Ethan Iverson Interviews Wayne Shorter</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>DO THE MATH</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/cult-favorite-quincy-episode-warned-dangers-punk-r-235895">FROM THE TIME-LOCK VAULT: The Infamous "Dangers of Punk Rock" Episode of <i>Quincy</i></a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/john-coltranes-handwritten-outline-for-his-masterpiece-a-love-supreme.html">DOCUMENT UNDER GLASS: John Coltrane's Handwritten Outline for <i>A Love Supreme</i></a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/05/26/24124551/an-interview-with-joe-gallivan-the-jazz-drummer-praised-by-stravinsky-and-ignored-by-nearly-everyone-else">Meet the Innovative Jazz Drummer Praised By Stravinsky (and Ignored by Everyone Else)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/a_talk_with_harrod_blank_director_of_his_father_les_blanks_masterpiece_a_po/"><i>A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON</i>: Les Blank's Unreleased Film About Leon Russell</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="https://wendtwritings.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/a-space-for-music-interview-with-rocco-somazzi/">A SPACE FOR MUSIC: An Interview with Rocco Somazzi</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>WENDTWRITINGS</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.npr.org/event/music/467259732/a-dive-into-jazz-slang-you-dig">YOU DIG?: A Dive Into Jazz Slang</a></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>A BLOG SUPREME</i>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/communal-experimentalism-in-the-sixties-the-pulsa-group/"><b>Communal Experimentalism in the Sixties: The Pulsa Group</b></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NEWMUSICBOX</i>)</span></div>
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<a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/20246-kamasi-washington-favourite-albums-interview"><b>THIRTEEN PRAYERS: Kamasi Washington's Favorite Albums</b></a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE QUIETUS</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.nuvo.net/ACulturalManifesto/archives/2016/05/02/george-clinton-talks-sun-ra-kendrick-prince-jimi-hendrix-and-more">CHECKING IN: George Clinton on Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar, Prince, Jimi Hendrix & more</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>NUVO</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.theonion.com/article/disappointing-prince-vaults-found-contain-37000-ho-52853">Disappointing Prince Vaults Found to Contain 37000 Hours of Billy Joel Covers</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE ONION</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/prince-1958-2016-is-the-water-warm-enough">"IS THE WATER WARM ENOUGH?": Cartoonist Depicts Wendy + Lisa's Contribution to Prince's Legacy</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE WIRE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1114-inside-miles-davis-prince-obsession-as-detailed-by-davis-family-and-collaborators/">Inside Miles Davis' Prince Obsession</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE PITCH</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/kirk">JAZZ HOME THEATER: <i>Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three-Sided Dream</i></a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>VIMEO</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://flypaper.soundfly.com/discovery/breaking-down-radioheads-orchestration-burn-the-witch/">Breaking Down the Orchestration of Radiohead's "Burn the Witch"</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>FLYPAPER</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://darkforcesswing.blogspot.ca/2016/04/architecture-and-explosion-cecil-taylor.html">ARCHITECTURE + EXPLOSION: Cecil Taylor, The Composer</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>DARK FORCES SWING BLIND PUNCHES</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9857-new-york-is-killing-me-albert-aylers-life-and-death-in-the-jazz-capital/">NYC IS KILLING ME: Albert Ayler's Life and Death in the Jazz Capital</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>PITCHFORK JAZZ ISSUE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2016/04/27/48341/on-frogtown-guitarist-anthony-wilson-tackles-love/"><i>FROGTOWN</i>: Anthony Wilson Tackles Love, Loss and Lyrics</a></b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>KPCC</i>)</span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;">ON DECK FOR NEW MUSIC BOOKS IN MAY:</b> Bruno Ceriotti's exhaustive e-book <b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.soundcheckbooks.co.uk/my-little-red-book/">My Little Red Book: Love Day-By-Day 1945-1971</a> </b><span style="font-style: italic;">charts the L.A. cult band's tumultuous rise and fall. </span>Premier punk press PM publishes the second edition of George Hurchalla's <b><i><a href="http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/GeorgeHurchalla">Going Underground: American Punk 1979–1989</a></i></b>. He's not dead, so you can still read Philip Norman's <b><i><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/philip-norman/paul-mccartney/9780316327992/">Paul McCartney: The Life</a></i></b> without crying to a Spotify playlist. <i>Rolling Stone </i>editor Mark Binelli reanimates a gonzo R&B singer in his 'What If?' novel <b><i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/screaminjayhawkinsalltimegreatesthits/markbinelli">Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits</a></i></b>. Caroline Gnagy follows in the footsteps of John and Alan Lomax in <b><i><a href="https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781626198678">Texas Jailhouse Music</a></i></b>, a fascinating history of prison bands. David Toop has written some of the most sublime books on the holistic effects of sound and music; now he just may top himself in <b><i><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/into-the-maelstrom-music-improvisation-and-the-dream-of-freedom-9781501314513/">Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom Before 1970</a></i></b>. In <b><i><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo23604847.html">Beethoven for a Later Age</a></i></b>, classical violinist Edward Dusinberre interweaves the history and challenges of Beethoven's 16 string quartet compositions (written between 1798 and 1826) with the history of his own Colorado-based Takács Quartet.<br />
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Honestly, we're getting kind of tired on books about the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band," but Rich Cohen's <b><i><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/237039/the-sun-and-the-moon-and-the-rolling-stones-by-rich-cohen/9780804179232/">The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones</a></i></b> examines the group through the contradictory lens of journalistic fandom. (<i>Be forewarned:</i> Cohen, along with Mick Jagger, is one of the co-creators of HBO's execrable <i><a href="http://time.com/4297119/hbo-vinyl-season-1-music-martin-scorsese-mick-jagger-rock-music/">Vinyl</a></i>, so bring along a couple grains of salt.) John Troutman excavates an underrated and misunderstood instrument in <b><i><a href="http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/11690.html">Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed Modern Music</a></i></b>. Ex-<i>Grantland</i> scribe Steven Hyden brings a kind of <i>Monday Night Football</i> blow-by-blow commentary to classic musician rivalries (Biggie vs. Tupac, Stones vs. Beatles) in <b><i><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steven-hyden/your-favorite-band-is-killing-me/9780316259149/">Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life</a></i></b>. (Read an interview with Hyden <a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/05/13/team_taylor_or_team_kanye_these_rivalries_become_metaphors_that_people_use_to_work_out_their_beliefs/">here</a>.) Since the turn of the millennium he's been a tireless booster for the West Coast, but in his memoir <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317780/porcelain-by-moby/9781594206429/"><b><i>Porcelain</i></b><b><i>: </i></b></a><b><i><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317780/porcelain-by-moby/9781594206429/">NYC, </a></i></b><b><i><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317780/porcelain-by-moby/9781594206429/">1989-1999</a></i></b> technopop auteur Richard "<b>Moby</b>" Hall looks back on his early DJ career in Urinetown. Yale University Press's twin volumes <b><i><a href="http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300214529/conversations-jazz">Conversations In Jazz</a></i></b> and <b><i><a href="http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300212167/music-air">Music in the Air</a></i></b> aim for reappraisal of the pioneering jazz writer <b>Ralph J. Gleason</b>. (Read <i>The New Yorker</i>'s take on Gleason <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/ralph-gleasons-artistic-activism">here</a>.) Happily, the prolific <b>Ted Gioia</b>, who wrote the introduction to <i>Conversations in Jazz</i>, also has a new book, the accessible primer <b><i><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/How-Listen-Jazz-Ted-Gioia/9780465060894">How to Listen to Jazz</a></i></b>. (The <i>Washington Post</i> reviews it <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/listen-up-how-to-listen-to-jazz/2016/05/10/f3e22b16-16df-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html">here</a>.) Minnesota University Press collects the rare and unpublished essays of jazz and blues critic <b>Albert Murray</b> in <b><i><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/murray-talks-music">Murray Talks Music</a></i></b>. (The <i>LA Review of Books</i> reviews it <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hero-blues-celebrating-albert-murray/">here</a>.) And rounding out the month for you Geminis are two very different titles from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series: Jovana Babovic's <b><a href="https://333sound.com/2014/05/29/new-33-13-title-sleater-kinneys-dig-me-out/"><i>Sleater-Kinney's </i>Dig Me Out</a></b> and Rolf Potts' <a href="https://333sound.com/2014/05/26/new-33-13-title-the-geto-boys-the-geto-boys/"><b><i>The Geto Boys</i></b></a>. Trevor Barre plumbs the early days of the London free-jazz movement in <a href="http://www.improvmusic.co.uk/"><b><i>Beyond Jazz: Plink,Plonk and Scratch</i></b></a>. Originally published in 1994, Edward Berlin's <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/king-of-ragtime-9780199740321?cc=us&lang=en&"><b><i>King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era</i></b></a> gets a reprint from Oxford University Press. In his novel <a href="http://www.adamhaslett.net/imagine-me-gone/"><b><i>Imagine Me Gone</i></b></a>, Adam Haslett novel seamlessly mixes mental illness and music-as-therapy for a memorable coming-of-age tale. (Read an interview with Haslett <a href="http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1275-every-music-fan-should-read-imagine-me-gone/">here</a>.)<br />
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<i>He died without knowing forgiveness</i></div>
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Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-61545669105885861132016-04-18T07:24:00.001-07:002016-04-18T10:35:50.109-07:00Eddie Becton Schools A Young 'Un<div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<i>I was kicking back having a glass of wine and listening to some classic <b>Duke Ellington </b>and reflecting on a discussion with a young cat in my jazz history class years back:</i><br />
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<b>Young 'Un:</b> Eddie B! Hey man, I know you dig jazz, but doesn't it get boring? A lot of it doesn't have lyrics, so it doesn't really tell you anything. Are you STUCK on jazz?<br />
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<b>Eddie B:</b> <i>(resisting the urge to plunder the young lad, YET conjuring the spirits/sentiments of Ellington, <b>Louis Armstrong</b>, <b>Charles Mingus</b>, among others)</i> I tell you what. Listen to these cuts. Start out with Ellington's cut, "Gong." Listen to what Duke says throughout, but especially to what he does in the background as much as the foreground. Peep his lines from 2:47 to 3:07. Tell me what you hear.<br />
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<b>YU:</b> Damn! They're chillin', but it sounds like they're having a conversation, even though there were no vocals! It's like Duke was responding to whatever they played.<br />
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<b>EB: </b>Okay, cool. Now, listen to this cut, "All Blues," by <b>Miles Davis</b>. What do you hear?<br />
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<b>YU:</b> It's a different vibe, but it also sounds like they're having a conversation. The band seems to be feeding off each other. I dig how mellow and cool this cut is!<br />
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<b>EB: </b>Okay, I dig you. Now,watch this clip from by Funkadelic, "Cosmic Slop" live. What do you see/hear/feel?<br />
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<b>YU:</b> Damn! They're killin' it! You see how many people were on stage? Parts of it sound like rock, but it has that funky vibe to it. Everybody is having a conversation and feeding off each other. You could even feel like the people in the audience were probably going off!<br />
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<b>EB: </b><i>(laughing my head off!)</i> Man... okay, okay. Now, listen to this cut by Dr. Yusef Lateef, "Juba Juba." Was there ANY connection between all the cuts?<br />
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<b>YU:</b> WOW! That cut is POWERFUL! I heard the literal voices and musical voices. It's like the cut encompassed, in some ways, the history of black music in America. All the cuts sounded good, for different reasons, but I dug them all. If there was anything across all, I guess it was they all seemed to be having a musical conversation, but the Lateef cut was like a summary of them all, if that makes sense.<br />
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<b>EB: </b>Exactly! When you understand the culture and the music, you FEEL it, and can relate to the band's conversations amongst itself AND the audience! While each cut you listened to might have had a different vibe, they were ALL talking to you, just using different words. ALL of it felt/sounded good, and for different reasons. It's like spirituals, work songs, blues, jazz, etc., they all speak to you, it's just that they may, in some cases, use different words to tell the same story!<br />
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<b>YU:</b> Ahhhhh, I didn't really think about that.<br />
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<b>EB: </b>Man, don't you EVER tell me that music with no verbal lyrics is incapable of telling a story! The voice is an instrument as much as a sax, but that doesn't mean they both can't talk and/or tell a story. The history of black music IS the story, man, LISTEN, and if you listened to the music at any period in history, you'll get a sense of what was happenin' at that time!<br />
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<b>YU:</b> Thanks, Eddie B!<br />
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<b>EB: </b>No problem, and remember this: Life can be much more fuller and wonderful when your ears are bigger than your mouth. Listen, son, listen!<br />
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<i><b>[Eddie Becton is a professor of African-American Studies at Loyola Marymount University and hosts <a href="http://echointhesense.com/site/2013/02/eddie-becton-on-jazz-history-and-black-history-month/">Eddie B's Jazz Journey</a> on KXLU 88.9-FM. The above FB post was reprinted with his permission.]</b></i></div>
Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-30760006426195352982016-04-06T09:21:00.001-07:002016-04-14T07:04:05.574-07:00Our Cruelest Month (of Links)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>CLICKHOLE</i></span>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/beyond-objects-beyond-scores/">BEYOND OBJECTS, BEYOND SCORES: Aditi Sriram Interviews Vijay Iyer</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>GUERNICA</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1078-a-guide-to-1980s-miles-davis/">A Guide to 1980s Miles Davis</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>PITCHFORK MEDIA</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/hear-the-first-drum-machine-the-rhythmicon-from-1931.html">Hear the Very First Drum Machine from 1931</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>OPEN CULTURE</i>)</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/10/magazine/25-songs-that-tell-us-where-music-is-going.html?_r=0">25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music is Going</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_entire_print_run_of_transgressive_la_punk_art_and_music_zine_no_mag_is"><i>NO MAG</i>: Entire Print Run of Seminal L.A. Art Punk 'Zine Now Online</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/how-to-listen-to-music/471471/">How to Listen to Music</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/complete-guide-to-the-2016-candidates-favorite-music-20160201">ELECTION 2016: The Complete Guide to the Candidates' Favorite Music</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2016/03/15/47211/politicsasjazz/">Jazz Musician Inspired by Campaign Rhetoric on New EP</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>SCPR</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/ahmad-jamal-the-awakening-samples/">How Ahmad Jamal's <i>The Awakening</i> Became A Sampling Goldmine</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>THE VINYL FACTORY</i>)</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://%28youtube%29/">ARCHIVE SUPERCUT: Every Single Tom Waits TV Appearance</a></b></div>
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Michelle Cruz Gonzales details the '90s moshpit in <b><i><a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=777">The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band</a></i></b>. (Read an interview with the author <a href="http://flavorwire.com/531174/the-forgotten-women-of-punk-spitboys-michelle-cruz-gonzales-on-riot-grrrl-dystopias-and-more">here</a>.) James McBride follows his bestselling memoir <i>The Color of Water</i> with <b><i><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/219828/kill-em-and-leave-by-james-mcbride/9780812993509/">Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul</a></i></b>. (Read <b>Rick Moody</b>'s <i>NYT</i> review <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/books/review/james-mcbrides-kill-em-and-leave.html?_r=0">here</a>.) NPR's Bob Boilen interviews the likes of Regina Carter, Jimmy Page, Hozier, Smokey Robinson, Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent on their musical inspirations in <b><i><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062344441/your-song-changed-my-life">Your Song Changed My Life</a></i></b>. (Read an interview with the author <a href="http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/byt-interviews-bob-boilen-on-all-songs-considered.htm">here</a>.) In 1750, poet Thomas Gray stood in a cemetery on the English countryside and wrote a famous elegy for all of the unknown and unfulfilled talent buried there ("Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest"). 266 years later, Ray Robertson does something about it in <b><i><a href="http://biblioasis.com/shop/new-release/lives-of-the-poets-with-guitars/">Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Rock & Roll</a></i></b>. (Read an interview with the author <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/04/ray-robertson-how-i-wrote-lives-of-the-poets-with-guitars.html">here</a>.) There's a reason classical musicians call it "the Pit"; now, in <b><i><a href="http://ecwpress.com/collections/books/products/sticking-it-out">Sticking It Out</a></i></b>, percussionist Patti Niemi reveals the cutthroat world of big-city symphonies. Adding to a recent spate of "music as nostalgia" memoirs, Erik Spitznagel resolutely declared <b><i><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316756/old-records-never-die-by-eric-spitznagel/9780142181614/">Old Records Never Die</a></i></b>! (Check out the "book trailer" featuring <b>Wilco's Jeff Tweedy</b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5toaBxoTrI4">here</a>.) He used to be named John Ravenscroft and his radio show on SoCal's own KMEN influenced the Anglophilia of the '60s Sunset Strip rock scene. Later he moved to England and became John Peel. In <b><i><a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/shop/general-non-fiction/9780571302475-good-night-and-good-riddance.html">Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life</a></i></b>, David Cavanaugh pays tribute to the bearded, laconic tastemaker. (Read <i>The Guardian</i>'s review <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/28/good-night-good-riddance-review-john-peel-david-cavanagh">here</a>.)</div>
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<i>England's Dreaming</i> author Jon Savage commemorates the 50th anniversary of the cultural-shift year of <b><i><a href="http://www.faber.co.uk/9780571277629-1966.html">1966: The Year the Decade Exploded</a></i></b>. (Check out the book's accompanying playlist <a href="http://acerecords.co.uk/jon-savages-1966-the-year-the-decade-exploded">here</a> and<br />
another cool list of the year's top rock albums <a href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/1966-rock-albums/?trackback=fbshare_top_flat_3">here</a>.) Bloomsbury's <a href="http://333sound.com/33-13-series/">33 1/3 series</a> continues with Buzz Poole's <b><a href="http://333sound.com/2014/05/21/new-33-13-title-grateful-deads-workingmans-dead/"><i>The Grateful Dead's </i>Workingman's Dead</a></b>. (Read a Q&A with the author <a href="http://333sound.com/2014/07/29/the-33-13-new-author-qa-buzz-poole/">here</a>.) They just finished what may have been their last tour, now the proggy Canucks called <b>Rush</b> have their own volume of fan fiction with <b><i><a href="http://ecwpress.com/collections/books/products/2113">2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush</a></i></b>. We've been waiting for his reminisces between film roles, X bassist John Doe has finally obliged with <i><b><a href="http://www.dacapopress.com/book/hardcover/under-the-big-black-sun/9780306824081">Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk</a></b></i>. (Read an interview with Doe <a href="http://www.westword.com/music/xs-john-doe-talks-new-album-book-and-hickenlooper-7524561">here</a>.) <b>Albert Einstein = Albert Ayler</b>? Stephon Alexander thinks there might be something there in <b><i><a href="http://www.perseusacademic.com/book/hardcover/the-jazz-of-physics/9780465034994">The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe</a></i></b>. In <b>Dr. Herb Wong</b>'s essay collection <b><i><a href="http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9640-2">Jazz on My Mind</a></i></b> honors late KJAZ DJ's lifelong devotion to America's classical music. (Listen to an interview with the book's editor <a href="http://kazu.org/post/herb-wongs-encyclopedic-knowledge-jazz-distilled-new-book#stream/0">here</a>.) Greg Vandy and Daniel Person document particularly fertile creative month for an American folk icon in <b><i><a href="http://www.sasquatchbooks.com/book/?isbn=9781570619700&26-songs-in-30-days-by-greg-vandy">26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest</a></i></b>.<br />
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Now that we know the new <i><b>Twin Peaks</b></i> reboot will be <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/65047-twin-peaks-revival-to-star-trent-reznor-sky-ferreira-eddie-vedder-sharon-van-etten-more/">more music-related than we could have ever imagined,</a> editors J.C. Gabel and Jessica Hundley provide contest in <i><b><a href="http://www.artbook.com/9780996744706.html">Beyond the Beyond: Music from the Films of David Lynch</a></b></i>. Having just announced an <a href="https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/third-man-books-announces-total-chaos-the-story-of-the-stooges-as-told-by-iggy-pop/">upcoming biography of The Stooges</a>, Third Man Books also has published photographer <b>David James Swenson's <i>Pictures From Unknown States</i></b> as part of its <a href="https://thirdmanrecords.com/vault">Vault Package #28</a>. The book documents <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/04/jack-white-will-perform-spontaneous-acoustic-concerts-in-five-states-and-tickets-are-only-3-00/"><b>Jack White</b>'s recent acoustic mini-tour</a>.</div>
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"I've never done a gig in a hash bar," notes the guitarist, an older Englishman named <b>Jon Dalton</b>. "I spent my teenage years on the festival circuit in tents and vans. I cooked curry in a hubcap one night."<br />
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Welcome to a marijuana dispensary with the James Ellroyish name of <a href="http://www.laconfidentialcaregivers.com/">L.A. Confidential Caregivers</a>.<br />
Located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, the space played host to a group of jazz artists who met for a couple of years there for informal Sunday-night jam sessions. It's something that used to happen in into the wee hours of the night, every night, all over the L.A. basin. Hungry young players would run it like a circuit. Then the clubs started dying on the vine and the sessions became limited to Sundays. And during the day to boot.<br />
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<a href="http://www.halsworkshops.com/">Hal Masonberg</a>'s sensual, understated documentary <b><i><a href="http://jazznightsfilm.com/">Jazz Nights: A Confidential Journey</a> </i></b>(2016) makes a case for jazz returning to the night. And not just the literal night but the night of alternative spaces and word-of-mouth, of music free from club and record label skulduggery and allowed to breath again. In the Uber and App-driven world, this could be a new trend in urban America: "Weed Dispensary Jazz." It's a strangely apropos setting, hearkening back to jazz's semi-legal origins. As the spirited saxophonist <b>Geoff "Double G" Gallegos</b>, who looks like he should be playing bass for Metallica, offers: "To be a criminal you have to improvise, and there's no better training for crime than jazz."<br />
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But herb is beside the point -- not all the cats in this racially and generationally mixed octet even like to get high. Between intimate musical interludes of the group easing into standards like <b>Freddie Hubbard</b>'s "Little Sunflower," <b>Toots Theilmanns</b>' "Bluesette" and <b>Harry Warren</b>'s "There Will Never Be Another You," they banter about how the dispensary gig freed them from the Sisyphus-like existence of jazz players in LA-LA Land. Before he wandered in the front door, guitarist <b>Emil Porée </b>drove a bus and cab in Pasadena to avoid the traditional studio-session work that his father was famous for. "I wanted to experience the music the way I wanted to: No veil between me and actual art."</div>
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(<b>FYI:</b> If you wish to see <i>Jazz Nights</i> in its entirety, its world premiere will be <b>April 23, 2016</b> at the <b><a href="https://www.newportbeachfilmfest.com/">Newport Beach Film Festival</a></b>.)</div>
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Over the last few months, the Beast had had the privilege of being contacted by a few filmmakers about their various jazz-related projects. Beside <i>Jazz Nights</i>, another one that stood out was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5DZSjChbrc"><b><i>Turn the Mics On</i></b></a>, a 2011 film by L.A. guitarist <a href="http://mattritvo.com/">Matthew Ritvo</a> about the making of his 2009 album with local luminaries <b>Michael Session</b>, <b>Roberto Miguel Miranda</b>, <b>Bobby English</b>, <b>Rahmlee Michael Davis</b> and the late, great <b>Woodrow "Sonship" Theus</b>.<br />
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Add to this are three (!!) recent biopics about jazz: Don Cheadle's <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/03/29/don_cheadle_and_emayatzy_corinealdi_discuss_miles_ahead_and_bringing_a_jazz.html"><b><i>Miles Ahead</i></b></a>, Howard Budreau's <a href="http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1073-ethan-hawke-on-how-music-shaped-his-film-career/"><b><i>Born to Be Blue</i></b></a> and Cynthia Mort's <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/"><b><i>Nina</i></b></a>. Each has been subject to its own set of criticisms, but honestly the Beast cannot remember a time when filmmakers could even dream of making any jazz-related project that wasn't a documentary (<i>The Case of the Three-Sided Dream</i>), a delivery-system for junkie porn (<i>Low Down</i>) or just plain lazy (<i>Whiplash</i>). This dates back to the mid- to late-1980s, where the documentary form seemed to outpace the fictional. There was the majestic <i><b>Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser</b></i> and the bizarre glitterscummy <i><b>Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost</b> </i>(both released in 1988), and the dutiful but seemingly incomplete <i><b>The World According to John Coltrane</b></i> (1990). For the fictional field, things started off hopefully with Bertrand Tavernier's elegiac <i><b>'Round Midnight</b></i> (1986) -- which garnered its star, L.A.'s own <b>Dexter Gordon</b>, an Oscar nomination -- and ended with a resolute thud by Clint Eastwood's <b><i>Bird</i> </b>(1988), a noble failure that managed to make jazz more boring than <i>Ken Burns' Jazz</i>.</div>
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But thanks to <b>IndieGoGo</b> and <b>Kickstarter</b> -- not to mention these go-go days of online D.I.Y. mini-documentaries -- jazz on film is coming back hard. (Cheadle partially used an Indie GoGo campaign to fund <i>Miles Ahead</i>, as did the filmmakers of <a href="http://firemusic.org/"><i><b>Fire Music</b></i></a>, <i><a href="http://jacopastorius.com/film/"><b>Jaco</b></a> </i>and <a href="http://www.coltranefilm.com/"><i><b>I Love John Coltrane</b></i></a>.) In fact, the Beast did a tally of L.A.-related jazz films and came up with about 30. This doesn't include films currently in production: L.A. rebellion filmmaker Barbara McCullough's film on <b>Horace Tapscott</b>; Mitchell Kezin's film on pianist/vocalist <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/but-for-now-the-music-mojo-of-bob-dorough#/"><b>Bob Dorough</b></a>, Tom Paige's <a href="http://thegathering.vhx.tv/"><b><i>The Gathering</i></b></a> (which features decade-old footage of this young kid named <b>Kamasi</b>), Paul Sabu Rogers' <a href="http://stompbeast.blogspot.com/2014/07/jazz-in-rainforest.html"><i><b>Jazz in the Rainforest</b></i></a> as well as docs on <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2014/11/weekend-extra-shelly-manne-and-friends.html"><b>Shelly's Manne-hole</b></a> and saxophonist <a href="https://www.seedandspark.com/studio/warne-marsh-improvised-life#updates"><b>Warne Marsh</b></a>.<br />
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In short, we realized: There's enough material here for a L.A.-centric jazz film festival. Don't believe us? Here's a rundown of what could be. (Of course, if there's anything we've missed, please add to our knowledge.) Yes, much of this can be see online or on YouTube, but let's not lose the chance of seeing these images on a BIG screen surrounded by actual breathing human beings.<br />
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<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/round-midnight-1986"><b><i>'Round Midnight</i></b></a></div>
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(1986; 2 hrs., 13 min.)</div>
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Special 30th Anniversary Screening!</div>
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<b><i><a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/l-a-rebellion-2011-retrospective-review-larry-clarks-passing-through">Passing Through</a></i></b></div>
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<b><b>(1977; 1 hr., 45 min.)</b></b></div>
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Larry Clark's docudrama student film from UCLA, featuring<br />
Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.<br />
Read the Beast's take on the film <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/film/passing-through-again-2152163">here</a>.</div>
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<b>CONCERTS</b></div>
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<b><b><i><a href="http://www.asharpshow.com/pages/central_avenue_live.html">Central Avenue Live!</a></i></b></b></div>
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<b>(1997; 58 min)</b></div>
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An account of the 1996 Central Avenue jazz festival, directed by S. Pearl Sharp.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Haden-Liberation-Music-Orchestra/dp/B00005TNFS"><b><i>Charlie Haden + The Liberation Music Orchestra: Live in Montreal</i></b></a></div>
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<b><b>(2002; 60 min.)</b></b></div>
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<b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQvx8k6ABE">The Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra: Live at Moers</a></i></b><br />
<b>(1995; 1 hr., 7 min.)</b><br />
Titanic, earth-shattering set from Horace Tapscott's guerrilla jazz orchestra.<br />
Arguably their finest filmed performance.<br />
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<b><b><i><a href="http://www.thesilenceisbroken.org/about/">The Silence Is Broken</a> </i></b></b></div>
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<b><b>(2010; 1 hr., 49 min.)</b></b></div>
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AIDS/HIV docu-concert film from pianist Patrick Gandy.</div>
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<b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_to_Soul_(film)">Soul To Soul</a></i></b><br />
<b>(1971; 1 hr., 36 min.)</b><br />
World Pacific Jazz record honcho Dick Bock's documents a landmark 1971 concert in<br />
Accra, Ghana featuring Les McCann, the Staples Singers, Ike & Tina Turner, Santana<br />
and the Voices of East Harlem.<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.plazanoir.com/charles-mingus/">A Tribute to Charles Mingus: Past, Present and Future</a></i><br />(2009; 60 min)</b><br />
Film from Paul Sabu Rogers that includes interviews and performance excerpts<br />
from heavies like Ndugu Chancler, Buddy Collette, Patrice Rushen and Nedra Wheeler.<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/vinny-golia-large-ensemble-20th-anniversary-concert-by-john-kelman.php?page=1">The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble: 20th Anniversary Concert</a></i></b><br />
<b>(2002; 100 min)</b><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.farfilm.com/films/approximately-nels-cline.html">Approximately…Nels Cline</a> </i><br />(2012; 30 min.)</b><br />
Steven Okazaki portrays the intrepid avant-guitar star from West L.A.<br />
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<a href="http://straightlife.info/summary.html"><b><i>Art Pepper: Straight Life</i></b></a><br />
<b>(2007; 180 min.)</b><br />
Laurie Pepper's three, hour-long troika of surrealist sketches of her late husband,<br />
the postbop saxophonist Art Pepper. Go <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16480615">here</a> for an NPR profile of the project.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/will-the-real-barry-manilow-please-stand-up/"><i>Barry Manilow: The Making of </i>2am Paradise Cafe</a> <br />(1984; 60 min.)</b><br />
DON'T LAUGH. Follow the link above and you'll understand.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2003/06/too-big-for-the-screen/"><b><i>Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog</i></b></a><br />
<b>(1998; 1 hr., 18 min.)</b><br />
Directed by Don McGlynn. Produced by McGlynn and Mingus' widow Sue.<br />
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<b><a href="http://pixiufilms.com/en/charlie-haden-rambling-boy/"><i>Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy</i></a><br />(2009; 1 hr., 25 min.)</b><br />
Reto Caduff examines the free jazz bassist's Americana roots.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/trumpetistically-clora-bryant">Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant</a></i></b><br />
<b>(1989; 5 min.)</b><br />
L.A. Rebellion filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis's brief portrait of a SoCal treasure --<br />
the only woman to jam with Charlie Parker.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ScJf6hYS4"><b><i>Dexter Gordon: More Than You Know</i></b></a><br />
<b>(1996; 52 min.)</b><br />
Don McGlynn portrays the bop saxophonist-turned-Hollywood-actor.<br />
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<a href="http://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2014/05/23/the-electric-don-ellis-remembered-in-a-new-video/"><b><i>Electric Heart: The </i></b><b><i>Don Ellis Story</i></b></a><br />
<b>(2007; 1 hr., 13 min.)</b><br />
John Vizzusi makes a case for the underrated<br />
"psychedelic big band" leader and pioneer of World Jazz.<br />
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<b><i><a href="https://blowpipe.bandcamp.com/album/last-date">Eric Dolphy: The Last Date</a></i><br />(1991; 1 hr., 32 min.)</b><br />
French documentary from Hans Hylkema and Dolphy biographer Thierry Bruneau.<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1989-02-20/entertainment/ca-186_1_central-avenue">Ernie Andrews: Blues for Central Avenue</a> </i></b><br />
<b>(1986; 60 min.)</b><br />
Lois Shelton's film on the underappreciated vocalist is credited for sparking<br />
the reappraisal of L.A.'s African-American jazz history.<br />
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<b><a href="http://home.nestor.minsk.by/jazz/news/2010/04/0703.html"><i>The Good Ear</i></a><br />(2009; 67 min)</b><br />
Steve Rudolf's film follows club owner/promoter Rocco Somazzi<br />
and L.A.'s creative jazz/improvised music scene.</div>
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<b><i><a href="http://www.istandcorrectedmovie.com/">I Stand Corrected</a></i></b><br />
<b>(2012; 60 min.)</b><br />
Andrea Meyerson's timely document of left-handed jazz bassist John Leitham's<br />
gender transition to Jennifer Leitham.<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.roseking.org/">Jazz on the West Coast: The Lighthouse</a></i></b></div>
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<b><b>(2006; 78 minutes)</b></b></div>
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Kenneth Koening on the groundbreaking Hermosa Beach jazz club.</div>
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<b><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnufLQMb6To"><i>Joe Albany: A Jazz Life</i></a></b></b></div>
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<b><b>(1980; 60 min.)</b></b></div>
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Carole Langer's gritty portrayal of the tormented bebop pianist who recorded with Charlie Parker.</div>
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<a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/08/09/a-classic-album-by-the-john-carter-and-bobby-bradford-quartet-gets-the-proper-treatment"><i><b>John Carter and Bobby Bradford: The New Music</b></i></a></div>
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<b><b>(1986; 30 min.)</b></b></div>
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Short film about the avant-garde duo by Peter Bull and a<br />
pre-<i>Going Clear</i> Alex Gibney, then a film student at UCLA.</div>
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<b><b><a href="http://www.keeponkeepinon.com/"><i>Keep on Keepin' On: The Clark Terry Story</i></a></b></b></div>
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<b><b>(2014; 1 hr., 24 min.)</b></b></div>
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Alan Hicks' masterful biography of the late trumpeter.</div>
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<b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bp3L9m4KXw">The Legend of Teddy Edwards</a></i></b><br />
<b>(2001; 1 hr., 25 min)</b><br />
Don McGlynn's film of the bebop saxophonist.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.leimertparkmovie.com/"><i>Leimert Park: The Story of a Village in South Central</i></a><br />(2006; 1 hr., 28 min.)</b><br />
Jeannette Lindsay documents the 1990s cultural renaissance in this SoLA 'hood.<br />
Read the Beast's take on the film <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/film/leimert-park-the-story-of-a-village-in-south-central-2143788">here</a>.<br />
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<b><i><a href="http://www.asharpshow.com/pages/life_is_a_saxophone.html">Life Is A Saxophone</a></i></b><br />
<b>(1985; 58 minutes)</b><br />
S. Pearl Sharp's short film on "jazz poet" Kamau Daaood was recently<br />
given a 28th anniversary reissue with 14 minutes of extra footage.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thefrankmorganproject.com/"><b><i>The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story</i></b></a><br />
<b>(2014: 1 hr., 24 min.)</b><br />
N.C. Heikin's portrait of the tumultuous career of the saxophonist and Jefferson High alumnus.</div>
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<b><a href="http://goodlifelove.ning.com/"><i>This Is the Life</i></a></b></div>
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<b><b>(2008; 97 min.)</b></b></div>
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Ava Duvernay's film on the melding of hip hop and jazz at the seminal Good Life Cafe in Exposition Park.</div>
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Doug McIntyre & Penny Peyser portray the trumpeter and vocalist with the most recognizable voice.</div>
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Denny Tedesco, son of famed session guitarist Tommy Tedesco, filmed this love letter to the jazz musicians who supplied American youth with its necking-and-petting soundtrack.</div>
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Eric Sherman's rarely screened doc was filmed during a pertinent time in Lloyd's career when he was at the height of his '60s popularity and about to go into self-imposed seclusion in Big Sur. Features the sublime quartet of Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Ron McClure.</div>
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<b><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1996-03-07/entertainment/ca-44106_1_santa-barbara-film-festival"><i>Charles Lloyd: Memphis Is in Egypt</i></a></b></div>
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<i><i><b><a href="http://www.laweekly.com/music/billy-and-charles-2137998">Charles Lloyd + Billy Higgins: Home</a></b></i></i><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://archive.southreporter.com/2011/wk15/ben_ingram.html">Ben Ingram vs. The State of Mississippi</a></i><br />(2009; 1 hr., 50 min.)</b><br />
Film about Charles Lloyd’s father.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mezzo.tv/en/our-programs/charles-lloyd-monk-and-mermaid-1"><b><i>The Monk and the Mermaid: The Song of Charles Lloyd</i></b></a><br />
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Italian documentary from Fara C. & Guiseppi de Vecchi.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.bebopified.com/2013/04/charles-lloyd-arrows-into-infinity.html"><i>Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity</i></a><br />(2012; 1 hr. 53 min)</b><br />
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Next month, <b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day 2016</a></b> will again be upon us, and although the genre of jazz is woefully underrepresented, we still unearthed some prime finds:<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8346">John Coltrane - </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8346">The Roulette Sides</a></b> </i><b>[Rhino/Parlophone]</b></div>
Originally released April 23, 1976. Transferred from the original tapes. Limited to 4500 copies.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8673">Miles Davis/Robert Glasper/Bilal - </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8673">Ghetto Walkin'</a></b> </i><b>[Columbia/Legacy]</b></div>
Grammy winner Glasper and singer-songwriter Bilal re-interpret the classic Miles Davis song 'The Ghetto Walk' with the new track 'Ghetto Walkin'' from Glasper's upcoming <a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/64049-erykah-badu-stevie-wonder-bilal-king-featured-on-miles-davis-tribute-album/"><i>Miles Ahead</i>-inspired project</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8512">Bill Evans - <i>Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest</i></a></b> <b>[Resonance]</b></div>
A <b style="color: orange;">newly discovered </b>Bill Evans studio album recorded by the legendary MPS Records producer and label owner, Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, at his studio in Villingen, Germany (aka "the Black Forest"). Recorded literally five days after Evan's legendary Grammy-winning live performance at the 1968 Montreux Jazz Festival, Liner notes to include new historical essays from jazz journalist Marc Myers and German jazz historian Friedhelm Schulz; interviews from participants Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette; plus rare and previously unpublished photos.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8544">Dizzy Gillespie -<i> The Champ</i></a></b> <b>[Savoy]</b></div>
Reissue of Dizzy Gillespie's ground breaking bebop album of small group recordings from 1951-52 with guests Milt Jackson & Percy Heath (who went on to later form the Modern Jazz Quartet), Stuff Smith, Bill Graham and some of the earliest sessions by John Coltrane."<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8546">Modern Jazz Quartet - </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8546">The Quartet</a></b> </i><b>[Savoy]</b></div>
These seminal recordings, originally issued under 'The Milt Jackson Quartet’ launched what soon became the elegant chamber jazz of the MJQ.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8487">Thelonious Monk - </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8487">The London Sessions Vol. 3</a></b> </i><b>[ORG]</b></div>
The third and last installment of Thelonious Monk's final recording session as a leader features Monk on six solo performances as well as five numbers with bassist Al McKibbon and drummer Art Blakey.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8476">Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis & Ray Brown - </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8476">Tenderly</a></b> </i><b>[Justin Time]</b></div>
Recorded in the summer of 1958 at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver,<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8481">Sun Ra - </a></b><i><b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8481">Spaceways</a></b> </i><b>[ORG]</b></div>
Receiving its <b><span style="color: orange;">first ever vinyl release</span> </b>for RSD16, <i>Spaceways</i> features live performances by Sun Ra and his Arkestra in New York City in 1966 and 1968.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8545">Lester Young - <i>Blue Lester</i></a></b> <b>[Savoy]</b></div>
Lester "Prez" Young classic features the tenor master at his peak and includes what would become his lifelong theme song "Blue Lester."<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/8524">Various Artists - <i>Jazz Dispensary: Cosmic Stash</i></a></b> <b>[Fantasy]</b></div>
Features some of the most iconic and hard-to-find drum breaks, legendary samples, and a who’s who of players and producers including: Bernard Purdie, Isaac Hayes, David Axelrod, the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, the Blackbyrds, Pharoah Sanders, and more.<br />
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Thanks to Drew Tewksbury over at <b>KCET's <i>Artbound</i></b>, the Beast has just published <b><a href="https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/samuel-rodney-browne-jazz-jefferson-high-school">another excerpt</a></b> from our book-in-progress <i><b><a href="http://stompbeast.blogspot.com/2013/09/it-begins.html">Midnight Pacific Airwaves</a></b></i>. This section comes from a chapter on L.A.'s influential music teachers. Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Matthew Duerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05614330570068346058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2105999781674836979.post-28783621264226276512016-03-04T08:45:00.004-08:002016-10-06T08:03:03.351-07:00SOUNDPRINTS (March Edition)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>ON THE DOCKET FOR NEW MUSIC BOOKS IN MARCH:</b> Bob Mehr's already-released</div>
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<i><b><a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/trouble-boys/9780306822032">Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements</a></b></i> delves deep into the lovable losers of '80s punk. (Read an excerpt <a href="https://www.blogger.com/excerpted%20here:%20http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_replacements_incite_a_riot">here</a>.) L.A. writer Jan Tumlir takes <i>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</i> as a starting point for an examination of the interaction of rock concept albums and pop art in <b><i><a href="http://www.rampub.com/art/978-94-91677-43-4">The Magic Circle: The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records</a></i></b>. Today, Duke University Press releases the collection <i><b><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/negotiated-moments">Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity</a></b></i>, which includes articles on "listening" by <b>Pauline Oliveros</b> and compositions by flautist <b>Nicole Mitchell</b> (who teaches at UC-Irvine) based on the science fiction by <b>Octavia Butler</b>. Dylanologist Barney Hoskyns (who must be drooling over that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/music/bob-dylans-secret-archive.html?ref=music&_r=0">recent cache of rare Dylania</a>) catalogues the "wild years" of the upstate New York arts and music colony of Woodstock in <a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/small-town-talk/9780306823213" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Small Town Talk</a>. Steven Blush, who gave us the monumental <i>American Hardcore </i>book/film, is one of the authors of the self-explanatory companion to the recent doc <i><b><a href="http://www.powerhousebooks.com/books/lost-rockers-the-rediscovery-of-great-forgotten-musicians/">Lost Rockers: Broken Dreams and Crashed Careers</a></b>.</i> (Watch the film teaser <a href="https://vimeo.com/56329586">here</a>.) Originally released in Europe, Nick Hayes' ghostly monochromatic images of the Great Depression buoys the graphic novel <i><b><a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/woody-guthrie-and-the-dust-bowl-ballads_9781419719455/">Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads</a></b></i>. Frank R. Hyde details the life of a infamously cranky bebop drum legend in <i><b><a href="http://santamonicapress.com/stan-levey-jazz-heavyweight/">Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight</a></b></i>. The tribal agitchicks of Minneapolis's late-'80s punk scene get the historical treatment by band member Michelle Leon in<br />
<b><i><a href="http://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/i-live-inside">I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland</a></i></b>. Recently, a researcher found <a href="http://www.ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/word-jazz-jazz-world">references to the word "jazz" in 1917 Chile</a>; in kind, Chicago University Press's essay collection <b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/J/bo19637106.html">Jazz Worlds/World Jazz</a></b> shines a light on the global impact of America's classical music. Coming of age during the '60s, UCLA Bruins legend <b>Bill Walton</b> was an entirely different kind of basketball star -- namely a vegetarian Grateful Dead fanatic -- and details how his Deadhead lifestyle informed his on-court glory in his new memoir <b><i><a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Back-from-the-Dead/Bill-Walton/9781476716862">Back from the Dead: Searching for the Sounds, Shining the Light and Throwing It Down</a></i></b>. John Corbett offers a travelogue for your Taylor Swift-saturated ears in the pocket-sized <b><i><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo22955331.html">A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation</a></i></b>. XTC's publicity-shy frontman Andy Partridge explains the origins of the British psychedelic punks in <b><i><a href="http://jawbonepress.com/complicated-game/">Complicated Game</a></i></b>. Jooyoung Lee journeys down to L.A.'s Leimert Park to find out how young rappers are made in <b><i><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo23290878.html">Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central</a></i></b>. And hey, not all books about have to music have to be about how great it is; French essayist Pascal Quignard takes the road less traveled with <b><i><a href="http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300211382/hatred-music">The Hatred of Music</a></i></b>. Now that researchers are finally able to <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-reveal-how-lsd-affects-consciousness-1.19727?WT.mc_id=FBK_NA_1604_NEWSLSDSCANS_PORTFOLIO">map LSD's effects on the human brain</a>, Jesse Jarnow drops a tab of groovy cultural change in <b><i><a href="http://dacapopress.com/book/us/ebook/heads/9780306822568">Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America</a></i></b>. Rizzoli turns its sumptuous, coffee-table eye to <b style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/duke-ellington-american-composer-and-icon">Duke Ellington: An American Composer and Icon</a></b>. And speaking of icons? Two very different ones round out the month: <b><a href="http://bloomsbury.com/us/blondies-parallel-lines-9781501302374/"><i>Blondie's </i>Parallel Lines</a></b>, Kembrew McLeod's entry in to Bloomsbury's venerable 33 1/3 Series; and Rich Kienzie's <i><b><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062309914/the-grand-tour">The Grand Tour</a></b></i> about the iconic (and troubled) country singer George Jones.</div>
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