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Wes Montgomery
Jazz Icons: Wes Montgomery Live in '65
Jazz Icons
DVD - Close-ups of Montgomery's hands traversing the fretboard should be required viewing for any aspiring jazz guitarist. -- The Boston Phoenix
Doug Ramsey
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
Parkside Publications, Inc.
Rarely in the annals of jazz biography has a subject's career been documented so thoroughly... a monumental work. -- Downbeat Magazine
Stuart Nicholson
Billie Holiday (Music)
Northeastern
David A. Jasen, Gene Jones
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
Schirmer Books
An entertaining and thoughtful history of great but neglected African-American tunesmiths from the vaudeville and early jazz eras. -- Kirkus Reviews
Dave Brubeck
Jazz Icons: Dave Brubeck Live in '64 & '66
DVD - [Displays] the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s unique penchant for creating music that is uncompromisingly cool and smooth but still loaded with clever time-changes and shifting dynamics, brimming with character. -- Jambands.com
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