I’m about halfway through Jon Hartley Fox’s forthcoming book on the King record label titled King of the Queen City. In one of the chapters on King’s country artists there’s […]
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Every catalog season before my media trips I try to read as many of the trade titles, cover-to-cover, as possible. Though not a traditional trade title, Bob Ostertag’s forthcoming book Creative […]
“The worst book about pop music I have ever read”
When I see a newspaper headline like the one above my heart immediately sinks with the publicist’s fear that the book in question is one of our titles. Whew! Thankfully, the focus of Jeff […]
Terry Trilling-Josephson’s busy day
Terry Trilling-Josephson will be speaking today about Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People, the book that she wrote with her husband Barney Josephson who died in 1988. Hear her […]
They Meet Again by Gene Rochberg
Composer George Rochberg’s new memoir, Five Lines, Four Spaces published by the University of Illinois Press, comes out at almost the same time as Montclair State University in New Jersey […]
Archie Green tribute
The Labor Archives and Research Center in San Francisco will host a musical tribute to Archie Green on June 21, 2009, in the McKenna Theatre at San Francisco State University. Hazel […]
“Cafe Society” reviewed in AllAboutJazz
AllAboutJazz.com praises Cafe Society. “This wonderful, uplifting book tells the story of Barney Josephson and Cafe Society, the jazz cabaret Josephson set up in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1938. […]
“Cafe Society” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal features a wonderful review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. Cafe Society is a valuable document in the long, […]
Professor Kinderman and the Great White Way
How pleasant to settle down on a Friday night with a fresh New Yorker and almost immediately find mention not only of your home institution, but of an author and […]
More Record Makers & Breakers reviews
The March 31, 2009, edition of the New York Daily News includes a review of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll […]
Mr. Blackmore’s legendary basement (on college radio)
Our distinguished American music list ranges from Aaron Copland to Bill Monroe, Marian Anderson to Marian McPartland, with Elvis, Louis Prima, Hazel Dickens, and John Cage rounding out the ranks. Our […]
Shelf Awareness reviews “Cafe Society”
Today’s issue of Shelf Awareness features a terrific review of Barney Josephson’s Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. “The reminiscences (and captivating photographs) in Cafe Society testify to […]