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France gets "Women in Jazz"
"Largement plébiscité par la presse et les lecteurs anglophones, cet ouvrage sur les femmes et le jazz n’est pas encore disponible en français. Cependant, il se lit facilement. En France, on connaît le travail précis de la chercheuse Marie Buscatto sur le sujet. Pour la zone anglophone, qui couvre aussi bien les USA, le Canada que le Royaume-Uni (pour ce qui est des témoignages), c’est Sammy Stein qui maîtrise le champ d’étude. La journaliste et autrice y travaille depuis longtemps et sur plusieurs supports : presse, radio etc."
Rolli's "Liz" in the Saturday Evening Post
Charles Anderson (Rolli) author of Mavor's Bones, and Plum Stuff writes a short story for the Saturday Evening Post. Read it here:
See his latest series of cartoons "Pepper... and Salt" in the Wall Street Journal here.
GWforM presents Poetry At The Parkside featuring Claudia Serea, Maria Haro and more...
GWforM presents Poetry At The Parkside
SUN, FEB 23 AT 4 PM
GWforM(Great Weather for Media) presents Poetry At The Parkside
The Parkside Lounge · New York, NY, United States
Jazzwise Magazine reviews Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz - The Women, The Legends & Their Fight"
A review of Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz- The Women, The Legends & Their Fight" in this month's Jazzwise Magazine.
Jane Cornwell writes,
“Women in jazz: see them? Like, really ‘see’ them? They’re there, and working hard – and out of necessity, harder – to pursue their passion on a playing field that is still shockingly uneven… Jazz remains stubbornly anachronistic, asserts Stein in the intro to this timely book. Disagree? It’s all here, beautifully written, eloquently argued, clear-eyed in its intentions and open in its invitation to come one, come all and sort it out. Jazz is given loose definition and historical context, with an illuminating chapter on New Orleans now and then. We’re re-introduced to pioneers: Melba Liston, whose complex arrangements made Dizzy’s musos gasp. Bessie Smith, buried in an unmarked grave until female fans arranged a headstone. Hazel Scott, targeted by McCarthyites in 1947, and a singer who advised Billie Holiday to “never let them see you cry”. Interviews with today’s women in jazz document challenges faced – from the male gaze to unsisterly women – and rewards reaped. Firsthand accounts from the likes of Terri Lyne Carrington, Georgia Mancio and Claire Martin are elucidating...”
Get your copy today!
'All About Jazz' features Sammy Stein's latest book "Women in Jazz"
"All About Jazz" features "Women in Jazz: The Women, The Legends & Their Fight":
"New book celebrates the women of music, shares their journeys and gives them voice."
'After the Pause' reviews Darren C. Demaree's "Nude Male with Echo"
'After the Pause' publishes their review on Darren C. Demaree's latest collection "Nude Male with Echo":
To read Demaree is to be swept along by his frantic pen. But he is never frantic in an uncontrolled way. Only in knowing how vital it is that he, and we, repair what remains of this wrecked world.
Author Talk: In Nietzsche's Footsteps
Jonathan Cohen will be reading from his "In Nietzsche's Footsteps" today at 15:00 at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life,
Abramson Center
Jan. 9, 2020, 15:00
1425 Horsham Rd,
North Wales PA 19454,
Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz" featured in Japan's "Portrait in Jazz"
Japan's "Portrait in Jazz" reviews Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz". See the review here. (You can google translate the page if you need to.)
Sticks & Stones reviews "Twoxism"
Erica Goss reviews Claudia Serea and Maria Haro's "Twoxism" in her latest issue of Sticks & Stones, (Issue #37, January 6, 2020. Read the full review.
"Women in Jazz" mentioned in JJA's Notable & Worthy List
Royal Stokes, Founding member of the Jazz Journalist Association lists Sammy Stein's "Women in Jazz" in their 2019 Notable & Worthy List. See the full list..
"Women in Jazz" by Sammy Stein makes the Jazz Times Recommendation List
...Sammy Stein’s new book Women in Jazz: The Women, the Legends & Their Fight uses a wide-angle lens to look at how women in a range of different roles have made a life in—and helped shape—jazz. Instead of only focusing on well-known performers, Stein interviewed agents, arrangers, composers, public relations professionals, media members, and more. Her subjects bridge generations (and international boundaries) in an effort to honor the past, assess the present, and point to the future.
See it here.
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