Thursday, May 14, 2015

Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, Composer



Internationally renowned composer and ethnomusicologist Jack Body died last week — celebrate his life, achievements and unswerving commitment to New Zealand music with this beautiful hardback volume. 

Featuring more than 120 contributions, Jack! is an astounding collection of memories, photos, paintings, art and music from friends and colleagues such as Vincent Ward, Slamet A Sjukur, Geoff Chapple, Martin Lodge, Tan Dun, Charles Te Ahukaramū Royal, Gao Ping, Ian Wedde, Gareth Farr, Budi Putra, José Evangelista and Richard Nunns. 

Woven between the stories is a transcript of Jack’s comprehensive Radio NZ ‘Composer of the Week’ interview with Elizabeth Kerr. 

A must for lovers of contemporary New Zealand music.
  • Colour throughout
  • Covers Jack’s work with Indonesian, Chinese and Cambodian music and musicians; his work as mentor and teacher; festival involvement and collaboration; and Gamelan in New Zealand.  
  • Indexed, including a timeline of Jack’s career
  • Includes a section on Jack’s photography and exhibitions.
  • Scores of the musical tributes (from Dame Gillian Whitehead, John Elmsly, Federic Rzewski, Yuji Takahashi, José Evangelista, Somei Satoh, Dieter Mack and Ross Harris).
  • Appendices contain a list of residencies facilitated by Jack, and recording projects he initiated.

Jack! Celebrating Jack Body, Composer
edited by Jennifer Shennan, Gillian Whitehead & Scilla Askew
Steele Roberts - Hardback - $39.99

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