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Bend Bulletin, January 31, 2012
...the fact he had all this data and a set of parameters he thought of as predictive,” said John Szwed, a Columbia University music professor and the author of “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World,” a biography published in 2010. “But he was...
The New Republic Online, December 23, 2011
...Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed This book was published the day before New Year’s Eve, 2010, and I had not yet read it when I chose my best books of that year. With...
Guardian.co.uk, September 20, 2011
...humanists to turn the numbers back into people." Two fascinatingly detailed music books also emerge this month. John Szwed's The Man Who Recorded the World (Arrow) tells the story of Alan Lomax, the pioneering American musicologist whose field...
The Other Paper, February 16, 2012
...transcend his blackness, using it as a necessary steppingstone to creating his own colorful and color-blind universe. In John Szwed's Say What: The Life of Miles Davis, the best book on the trumpeter I've ever read, Davis had this to say about playing...
GQ Magazine UK, February 14, 2012
...as someone who travels a lot and is exposed to a lot of different music. It's by John Szwed, who also did a biography of Miles Davis. What music do you love that would surprise people? XJ: Well in America, nobody really knows what grime is and I...
GQ Magazine UK, February 13, 2012
...as someone who travels a lot and is exposed to a lot of different music. It's by John Szwed, who also did a biography of Miles Davis. What music do you love that would surprise people? XJ: Well in America, nobody really knows what grime is and I...
All About Jazz, February 3, 2012
...Bowl. By alot. The best books on Miles are the autobiography, the bios penned by Ian Carr and John Szwed, and the one on his electric period by Paul Tingen. There are some other worthy ones. “The Man in the Green Shirt" is great for photos and has...
Discovery Channel, February 3, 2012
...had all this data and a set of parameters he thought of as predictive,” Columbia University music professor, John Szwed told the New York Times. Swed in also the author of “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World.” “But" Lomax "was also...
All About Jazz, February 3, 2012
...Bowl. By alot. The best books on Miles are the autobiography, the bios penned by Ian Carr and John Szwed, and the one on his electric period by Paul Tingen. There are some other worthy ones. “The Man in the Green Shirt" is great for photos and has...
Techdirt, February 2, 2012
...on the fact he had all this data and a set of parameters he thought of as predictive,” John Szwed, a Columbia University music professor and the author of “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World,” a biography published in 2010, told The Times....
