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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.