The New Face of Jazz: An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow

Cicily Janus; Ned Radinsky; Sonny Rollins; Marcus Miller and Wynton Marsalis

ISBN 10: 0823000656 / ISBN 13: 9780823000654

Published by Billboard Books, 2010

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New.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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Face of Jazz: An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow
• Publisher: Billboard Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823000656
• ISBN 13: 9780823000654
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 best€”playing. An appendix offers resources for jazz education; an exclu

About the Author

CICILY JANUS is 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.