Hello again from ejazzlines!
First off, we must take a moment to mourn the apparent passing of IAJE (International Association for Jazz Education). As relative newcomers, over the last decade ejazzlines saw how essential IAJE has been to teachers, musicians, and students the world over
(as well as how wonderful and beneficial it was to us) and we did try in our small way to help it to thrive. We share everyone's shock and grief at the news of IAJE's demise, and we will be working very hard to try to find a way to continue what the IAJE exposition,
panels, and clinics did so very well for so many of us. It brought us together once a year - to meet, to put faces to names, to show customers in far-off places that we are real people, to exhibit all that we had that was new and that we were most proud of,
to see many folks in non-business settings in which we rarely see you, and perhaps best and most important, to give us all a giant feeling of community and solidarity in knowing how many of us out there exist who truly love and honor jazz.
All of this, in obvious addition to the business and networking, was what made IAJE so special and truly unique. We do want everyone to know that we will be working to try and make JazzImprov Live! even better than it was in its auspicious debut last year,
and we will be keeping everyone up to date as soon as we know precise info on this year's gathering. We do hope to use the spirit of IAJE to infuse this conference, and possibly any other newcomers, with the many positives which IAJE's legacy leaves us.
So thank you for everything IAJE, and let's make the jazz phoenix which will surely rise from this an eternal and strong one!
Before moving on to May, we would like to thank everyone who has made the incredible new World of Maynard Ferguson DVD one of our best sellers in a long while.
This unique release of a long-unavailable program of Maynard and his band was pressed in a very limited edition of 1500 copies worldwide, and we have literally a couple of handfuls left. We are not sure if there will be anymore available when this first
batch is gone, so we encourage all of you Maynard fans out there to act now, as we certainly do not want to disappoint too many of you very generous folks!
New DVDs:
We did have an unusually good selection of releases last month, so please beg our forgiveness if May has yet to achieve April's lofty status DVD-wise. There are quite a few new instructional DVDs, led by the four volume Learn to Play Blues Piano set.
Also, we have two more items to add to our wide-ranging Latin Jazz collection. Real Latin Piano
is a compendium of Latin Jazz styles from many areas and We are the Music is a documentary exploring what many consider to be the 'Golden Age' of Cuban music, 1940-1960.
We also would like to mention again a couple of April's best, the new DVD documentary of the great Bud Shank,
as well as a brand new DVD featuring Wadada Leo Smith.
New Books:
May's books are plentiful, and feature the entire new series from Alfred, Jazz Standards for Vocalists.
We now have all ten editions available, including a complete set with the vocal book and all nine accompanying books.
This collection is ideal for a vocalist who needs a smaller ensemble with four or five horns and rhythm section. Practical Guide to Jazz Band Guitar is a brand new book which should help just about any guitarist
improve his or her big band performance. Fingerstyle Funk Bass Lines should help our bassist friends become more well-rounded, and we try very hard to assist you all in doing that.
We also just added a James Newton Solo Book and Jack DeJohnette's The Art of Modern Jazz Drumming.
James Newton's Improvising Flute takes players through jazz- and classical-based studies, and The Art of Modern Jazz Drumming is Mr. DeJohnette's gift to the drummer who aspires to master the many aspects of progressive jazz.
Finally, we again suggest taking a look at Jerry Coker's latest from April, The Creative Nudge That Fuels Jazz Improvisation, a budget-priced winner from Aebersold which has been amassing rave reviews.
New Big Band Arrangements:
We are very proud to announce the release of several new jazz big band arrangements in our Jazz Lines Publications series including 3 new female vocals: Whatever Lola Wants, a cha-cha as recorded by Carmen McRae;
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You as recorded by Helen O'Connell; and Love Me or Leave Me, also by Helen O'Connell. In the next few weeks we'll
release Just Friends by Rob McConnell; But Not for Me by Sarah Vaughan; Hey There by Helen O'Connell; and by Frank Sinatra: Night and Day, Summer Wind, Strangers in the Night, South of the Border, and I Get a Kick Out of You (studio version).
New CDs:
From the domain of recordings, we have a few new CDs worth mentioning. No Coast Jazz Records, based in New York, has released a new Don Friedman recording titled Straight Ahead. This new recording reunites the original Don Friedman 'A Day in the City' trio with Chuck Israels and Joe Hunt. This is an
unforgettable studio performance by three genuine masters of the modern jazz idiom. M&I in Japan has released a very nicely packaged 2-disc compilation of the European Jazz Trio titled Best of Classics II. This set captures some of EJT's best interpretations of classical pieces by Mozart, Chopin, Ravel, and Bach.
And, SteepleChase has just released volumes 25 and 26 in their Jam Session series.
Volume 25 features Marcus Printup, Ryan Kisor, and Joe Magnarelli.
Volume 26 features Ed Xiques, Conrad Herwig, and Jay Branford.
New Release Summary:
In our ceaseless effort to present all that is new and interesting, as of this newsletter we have added a total of
73 new CDs for the month of May 2008 and
77 for the month of April 2008;
17 new DVDs for May 2008
and 38 for April 2008;
51 new music books for May 2008
and 50 for April 2008;
6 new big band and combo arrangements for the month of May 2008
and 13 for the month of April 2008.
If you haven't visited our Imports and Rarities section lately, please check it out. We are now stocking more and more obscure, rare, and hard-to-find
titles from Japan and Europe, including many titles that you may not be able to find elsewhere.
In our DVD section, we now carry nearly 1,600 jazz DVDs!
As always, please keep in mind that many of our new releases are available in limited quantities. We do our best to predict demand and fill orders as quickly as possible, but we do run out of new releases. Even if we run out of stock, almost everything featured in this newsletter should be available to ship within 5-7 days; some imports may take 2-3 weeks.
We thank you all again very sincerely for your continued support, and we send everyone our very best regards!
Rob and Doug at ejazzlines
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