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The New Face of Jazz: An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow
Author(s): Cicily Janus (Author), Ned Radinsky (Photographer), Sonny Rollins (Afterword), Marcus Miller (Foreword), Wynton Marsalis (Contributor)
- Publisher: Billboard Books
- Publication Date: July 13, 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0823000656
- ISBN-13: 9780823000654
Book Description
Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today’s jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this great musical legacy. In their own words, artists such as McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval, Diane Schuur, Terence Blanchard, Charlie Hunter, Nicholas Payton, George Benson, Maria Schneider, Christian McBride, Randy Brecker, Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Lovano, Lee Ritenour, and more than 100 others share intimately about their beginnings, musical training, inspiration, and hard-earned lessons, creating a fascinating mosaic of the current jazz community. Photographer Ned Radinsky contributes 40 amazing black-and-white portraits of these musicians doing what they do bestplaying. An appendix offers resources for jazz education; an exclu
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About the Author
CICILY JANUSis a musician, writer, and jazz instructor at Broadmoor Academy of Music in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and a writer for Downbeat magazine. Visit www.newfaceofjazz.com.
