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Impressions
Isabelle Leymarie est l'auteur de plus d'une dizaine de livres publiés dans plusieurs langues dont Cuba - La Musique cubaine (Le Chêne), lauréat du Prix des Muses, Du tango au reggae - Musiques noires d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes (Éditions du Jasmin), Jazz Piano (Createspace) et Picasso, le jazz et autres instants de vie (Createspace).
Picasso and All That Jazz
Isabelle Leymarie is one of the first women, in Europe and the United States, who wrote extensively about jazz and the black music of Latin America and the Caribbean. She has known some of the most famous artists of our time, among them Picasso, living two years with him and his wife in the south of France, as well as Giacometti, Balthus, Fellini, Buñuel, and Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and many other great musicians. A jazz and salsa pianist in New York, Puerto Rico, Japan, and Europe, she has lived in the South Bronx and in various countries, taught at The New School, Yale and other American universities, and traveled around the world. Here she shares her recollections, as well as her thoughts on subjects as diverse as music, Switzerland, racism, animals, plants, and psychiatry... She has written numerous articles and record liner notes, and over twelve books published in different languages, among them the award-winning Cuba - La música cubana. She has also made several documentaries on jazz and Latin music, produced radio programs, and translated over forty books.
Jazz Piano
A jazz pianist and musicologist, Isabelle Leymarie has taught at several American universities including Cooper Union, Boricua College, Livingston College's Jazz Department, The New School, and Yale, as well as at several European music schools and conservatories. She has performed in Europe, the United States, Japan, India, and Latin America and given lectures and masterclasses on jazz and Latin jazz. She has collaborated to numerous magazines and reviews as well as to the Nouveau Dictionnaire du Jazz and other collective books, produced radio programs on jazz, and directed documentary films on music, including the award-winning Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy. She is the author of a dozen books, published in several languages. Her book Cuba - La Musique cubaine was awarded the French Prix des Muses.
Jazz Piano
"Jazz Piano - Yesterday and Today" traces the history of this music from ragtime and its premisses until today. It includes a chapter on Latin America and the Caribbean - the only jazz history book to do so - and another one on jazz piano in the rest of the world, as well as a chapter entitled "Pianists and their craft" in which well-known pianists offer pieces of advice and commentaries, and a piece on Bill Evans by his last drummer: Joe LaBarbera.
Barn Yarns
Barn Yarns is a collection of zany, nonsensical stories, somewhat in the spirit of Edward Lear, featuring animals and occasional human beings. It also expresses an underlying message in the defense of animals - for how happy the world would be if these could live in peace without being slaughtered, enslaved, and pestered by those bloody humans ! - and a humanistic message in general.
Cuban Fire
In Cuban Fire, the prize-winning author Isabelle Leymarie tells the thrilling story of popular music of Cuban origin and its major artists from the 1920s to today. Afro-Cuban music derives its richness from the fusion of many cultures. On the island of tobacco, rum and coffee, nicknamed 'The Green Caiman' because of its long and curvy shape, the wedding of sacred and secular African musical genres with Spanish and French melodies gave rise to numerous genres that have gained international fame- son, rhumba, guaracha, conga, mambo, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, and nueva timba. The history of Cuban music also unfolds in the United States, where large Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Hispanic communities have established themselves over the years. It was in New York, indeed, that the boogaloo, salsa and Latin jazz, created by such musicians as Machito, Mario Bauz , Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo, emerged out of the contact with the Puerto Ricans and African-Americans of that city. This major reference book also deals with the incandescent rhythms of Puerto Rico and -- to a lesser degree -- Santo Domingo, integrated today into salsa and Latin jazz.
From the Tango to Reggae
Guaguanc�, son, rumba, mambo, chachacha, samba, biguine, compas, bossa nova, Latin jazz, zouk, reggae, ragga, bomba, merengue, calypso, soca, dancehall: the Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean world is an endless wellspring of rhythms and melodies. This book offers a fascinating overview of its main traditional and popular genres. It considers artists such as Bob Marley, Celia Cruz, Machito, Kassav', Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Harry Belafonte, Mighty Sparrow, and Rihanna. It also allows us to discover the still little known black music of countries such as Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica or Honduras, and explains, in particular, the African origin of the tango and the milonga.An award-winning ...
The Commuter Nation
"Forceful arguments analyze the migration phenomenon in Puerto Rico from different points of view: the parallel between migration in Corcega and migration in Puerto Rico by Hugo Rodriguez Vecchini; and the definition of ""Puerto Rican"" offered by Juan Manuel Garcia Passalacqua."
Theories of Africans
"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
