Archive for the ‘Duck’s Writings’ Category
About Duck’s Writings
October 2nd, 2009
Duck’s name has actually been known for longer as a writer than as a musician. He wrote some satirical pieces and record reviews for an underground paper in Richmond, Virginia called The Sunflower in the 60’s and graduated to the Canadian jazz magazine, Coda, widely regarded as the most serious jazz journal in North America, in 1969. He continued writing for Coda in the 70’s, covering the San Francisco scene and contributing record reviews, and over the years his work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Jazz Times, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Player, Fingerstyle Guitar, Acoustic Musician, Dirty Linen, Old Time Music, Fiddler, The Berkeley Barb, The East Bay Express, and Listener.
Duck has also written liner notes for an equally divergent roster of musicians, from various fingerpicking guitarists to the Fisk Jubilee Singers and Reverend Gary Davis to the Savoy-Doucet Band to Bud Powell. Most of the liners to Duck’s records are his own work, and many of his books feature well-researched pieces about the kinds of music he arranges for guitar. We thought it would be fun to include a few samples of Duck’s prose here. The magazines that run his work most regularly at this point are Coda, Dirty Linen, Fiddler, Acoustic Guitar, and Jazz Times, in case anyone wants to check out more of the Mallard’s musings.
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Monk’s Dream
October 2nd, 2009
Thelonious Monk
October 2nd, 2009
The Complete Prestige Recordings
Prestige 3PRCD-4428 (3 discs: 3 hrs, 7 mns)
Billie Holiday
October 2nd, 2009
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia Recordings
1933-1944 Columbia/Legacy CXK 84570
Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
October 2nd, 2009
Jeff Todd Titon
Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
The University Press of Kentucky
245 pp. ISBN 0-8131-2200-7
Brassy Bios
October 2nd, 2009
Joshua Berrett & Louis Bourgois III The Musical World of J. J. Johnson Scarecrow Press 441 pp. ISBN 0-8108-3648-3
Nick Catalano Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter Oxford University Press 208 pp. ISBN 0-19-510083-2
Quincy Troupe Miles and Me University of California Press 189 pp. ISBN 0-520-21624-5
Louis Armstrong
October 2nd, 2009
The Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens Columbia/Legacy C4K 63527 (4 CD’s)
The Ultimate Collection Verve 314 543699-2 (3 CD’s)
Ambassador Satch Columbia/Legacy CK64926
Satch Plays Fats Columbia/Legacy CK 64927
Satchmo the Great Columbia/Legacy CK 62170
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington The Great Summit – Complete Session Roulette Jazz 7243 5 24546 (2 CD’s)
Traditional Music
October 2nd, 2009
Traditional Music
What We Mean When We Talk About Traditional Music
From the Mel Bay book “Irish and American Fiddle Tunes”
The term ‘Celtic’
October 2nd, 2009
“CELTIC” IS A BASKETBALL (or, if you’re Scottish, a Football) PLAYER
