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Steve Dollar writes about pop culture
for a variety of publications, including, Newsday, Playboy.com,
and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was the chief
pop music critic. He also has contributed to the Wall Street
Journal, GQ, Oxford American, and The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia
of Rock & Roll. He lives in New York City.
To be published Spring 2007
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This "richly anecdotal and wonderful" slim, pocket-size
guide is now updated to include all the newest hot spots on the
Big Apple jazz scene.
Both a handy reference to the thriving jazz scene of today and
a celebration of its vibrant history, Jazz Guide: New York City
is the only comprehensive guide to jazz in New York City. Uptown,
downtown. Big bands to subway soloists. Elegant clubs with big-name
headliners to funky basements where the bands play all night. Jazz
Guide profiles more than sixty venues where you can hear the best
of every kind of jazz.
Profiles of contemporary clubs are interwoven with listings of
festivals, music stores, poetry jams, gospel brunches, along with
jazz lore, including visits to Harlem and 52nd Street the their
heydays, the famous bridge where Sonny Rollins moonlighted, and
the neighborhood Louis Armstrong called home.
"Steve Dollar writes with a verve and a virtuosity entirely befitting the timeless swing of his subject matter. Smarter and more literate than one has any right to expect from a guidebook, and indispensable to the Gotham jazz fan." —Mark Binelli, Rolling Stone
“Wandering around New York, anyone would stumble upon good jazz. But with the right guide, one finds secret spaces, cultural combustion, and sounds that just don’t exist elsewhere. Dollar is such a guide; he has the wit, wisdom, and wiliness of a seasoned vet, and a poet’s pen.” -- Larry Blumenfeld, Jazziz