buddy's knife jazzedition

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Buddy's knife jazzedition
legal form one-man business
founding 2007
Seat Cologne
management Renate Da Rin
Branch Publishing , jazz books
Website buddysknife.de


buddy's knife jazzedition is a book publisher in Cologne that specializes in the publication of jazz books.

history

The publishing house buddy's knife jazzedition was founded in 2007 by the Cologne journalist , editor and ethnologist Renate Da Rin and named after the cornetist Buddy Bolden .

The previous publications of the jazz edition for free jazz / avant-garde jazz and improvising music were written by musicians from the New York downtown scene and were published in English. The respective forewords have been translated into German.

The publisher was the first to publish selected poetic works by the American jazz bassist Henry Grimes from his 30-year absence from the stage. The book signs along the road shows a selection from the thousands of diary pages that Henry Grimes filled during this period. At the same time, the book who owns music? Was published in March 2007 . by William Parker with poems and political and music theory essays.

In March 2009, subway moon by saxophonist Roy Nathanson , a former member of Lounge Lizards and founder of Jazz Passengers, was released . Nathanson writes how he composes: always close to what is happening around him.

In March 2010 the publisher published the anthology silent solos - improvisers speak . This work, edited by Renate Da Rin, presents short texts and poems by 50 internationally known improvising musicians from the avant-garde scene, including Leena Conquest, Cooper-Moore , Jayne Cortez , Charles Gayle , Gunter Hampel , Oliver Lake , Yusef Lateef , Joëlle Léandre , Sabir Mateen , Nicole Mitchell , William Parker , Matana Roberts , Larry Roland, Matthew Shipp , Warren Smith , Lisa Sokolov, and David S. Ware . The foreword is from George E. Lewis .

In September 2011 his autobiography music in my soul was published on the anniversary of the death of alto saxophonist Noah Howard .

In August 2015, Renate Da Rin and William Parker published a collection of text contributions by 48 musicians from the creative music scene, among others. a. Jay Clayton , Marilyn Crispell , Claudine François , Terry Jenoure , Joëlle Léandre , Marilyn Mazur , Nicole Mitchell , Maggie Nicols , Angelika Niescier , Lisa Sokolov , Ijeoma Chinue Thomas , Fay Victor , Jessica Williams , and a foreword by Amina Claudine Myers : giving birth to sound - women in creative music . The book was presented at the 20th Vision Festival , which took place from July 7th to 12th, 2015 in New York.

Naming

The name buddy's knife goes back to the legendary trumpeter Buddy Bolden from New Orleans . buddy's knife emphasizes the knife as an instrument with which shackles can be cut, so it is symbolic for the loosening of conventions and for the freedom in musical improvisation .

Publications

  • Henry Grimes: signs along the road. poems. buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-020142-4 .
  • William Parker: who owns music? buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-020141-7 .
  • Roy Nathanson: subway moon. buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-025376-8 .
  • Renate Da Rin (Ed.): Silent solos - improvisers speak. buddy´s knife jazzedition, Cologne 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-030557-3 .
  • Noah Howard: music in my soul. buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-034401-5 .
  • Renate Da Rin, William Parker (Ed.): Giving birth to sound - women in creative music. buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2015. ISBN 978-3-00-049279-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SWR2 - Jazzprogramm March 2015: NOWJazz Update: Adventurous Reading buddy's knife jazzedition by Julia Neupert.Retrieved on March 13, 2018
  2. ↑ Reiner Kobe: Who owns music? Buddy's knife jazzedition presents its first book series. In: jazzzeitung.de. April 2007, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Jakob Baekgaard: Subway Moon. In: All About Jazz . February 10, 2010, accessed May 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Carina Prange: Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak - book review. (No longer available online.) In: Jazzdimensions. October 5, 2010, archived from the original on May 9, 2018 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzdimensions.de
  5. ^ Wolfram Knauer: New Books 2011. In: Jazzinstitut Darmstadt . August 3, 2014, accessed May 8, 2018 .
  6. ^ Christian Broecking, Stefan Franzen & Martin Laurentius: New book: Women in creative music. In: Jazz thing . July 2, 2015, accessed March 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ perlentaucher.de: Renate-da-Rin