No Beethoven: An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report
No Beethoven chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. Including never-before published photographs.

No Beethoven includes chapters dedicated to Weather Report and the musicians Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, and Wayne Shorter, plus the bands Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, and artists such as Elvin Jones, Joni Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Krall, Steve Gadd, producer Manfred Eicher, composers John Williams, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, et al. The book provides a revealing look at the creative process involved in performing music on-stage and in the recording studio, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the musical instrument industry operates.

This is a book for all musicians and fans of music. As famed drummer and Rush founder Neil Peart writes: No Beethoven is among the best musical autobiographies I have read. Peter's story is absorbing and compelling, full of well-drawn characters and incidents both humorous and serious. It flows with the same ease and naturalness as his drumming, and under that good-humored gloss, it conveys the same profundity of experience and ideas. This book should be read not only by every drummer, but by every musician. Even amateurs of music performance will find it entertaining and worthwhile.
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No Beethoven: An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report
No Beethoven chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. Including never-before published photographs.

No Beethoven includes chapters dedicated to Weather Report and the musicians Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, and Wayne Shorter, plus the bands Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, and artists such as Elvin Jones, Joni Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Krall, Steve Gadd, producer Manfred Eicher, composers John Williams, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, et al. The book provides a revealing look at the creative process involved in performing music on-stage and in the recording studio, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the musical instrument industry operates.

This is a book for all musicians and fans of music. As famed drummer and Rush founder Neil Peart writes: No Beethoven is among the best musical autobiographies I have read. Peter's story is absorbing and compelling, full of well-drawn characters and incidents both humorous and serious. It flows with the same ease and naturalness as his drumming, and under that good-humored gloss, it conveys the same profundity of experience and ideas. This book should be read not only by every drummer, but by every musician. Even amateurs of music performance will find it entertaining and worthwhile.
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No Beethoven: An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report

No Beethoven: An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report

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No Beethoven: An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report

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No Beethoven chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. Including never-before published photographs.

No Beethoven includes chapters dedicated to Weather Report and the musicians Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, and Wayne Shorter, plus the bands Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, and artists such as Elvin Jones, Joni Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Krall, Steve Gadd, producer Manfred Eicher, composers John Williams, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, et al. The book provides a revealing look at the creative process involved in performing music on-stage and in the recording studio, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the musical instrument industry operates.

This is a book for all musicians and fans of music. As famed drummer and Rush founder Neil Peart writes: No Beethoven is among the best musical autobiographies I have read. Peter's story is absorbing and compelling, full of well-drawn characters and incidents both humorous and serious. It flows with the same ease and naturalness as his drumming, and under that good-humored gloss, it conveys the same profundity of experience and ideas. This book should be read not only by every drummer, but by every musician. Even amateurs of music performance will find it entertaining and worthwhile.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780989253017
Publisher: Alfred Music
Publication date: 08/01/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 334
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword Mitch Haupers x

1 Thus Spake Zawinul 1

2 Club Harlem 5

3 Weather Report is a Big Band 9

4 I Join the Band 13

5 Mr. Gone 19

6 Summer of '61 21

7 Joe 27

8 Educating Peter 31

9 Guardian Angels 35

10 School 39

11 Interlochen 41

12 Indiana U. 47

13 Summer of 1972 49

14 The Stan Kenton Orchestra 53

15 On the Road 57

16 Music Companies - Interlude 61

17 In Praise of Zildjian 63

18 In Further Praise of Elvin 67

19 Yamaha 71

20 Drum Workshop 75

21 Slingerland Drums 79

22 I Leave Kenton 81

23 Maynard Ferguson 83

24 Tokyo, Japan, 1978 91

25 Jaco 95

26 Weather Report Attitude 103

27 Weather Report's Contentious Ways 111

28 Living in California 115

29 Recording Session Stories 123

30 Go East, Young Man 127

31 But First, Down South 131

32 Cue Now… I'll Take Manhattan 133

33 Peter Erskine: On the Record 137

34 More Sounds in the Big Apple 139

35 Common Denominator 141

36 Steps Ahead & New York City 143

37 Madarao, Japan 147

38 Tachikawa to Santa Monica 151

39 What the Hell? 153

40 And Baby Makes 4 155

41 The Play's the Thing 157

42 The ECM Recordings 159

43 Competition 163

44 Life Goes On 167

45 Plays Well With Others 171

46 Diary of Two Film Sessions 179

47 Back to the Classics 183

48 Flying to Japan Again 189

49 Me and Japan 195

50 Life 2 197

51 More Talk About Life and Art 201

52 USC 207

53 Whither Jazz Goest? 209

54 Wayne 215

55 From Fearless to Self-conscious 219

56 Weather Report Drummers 221

57 Stormy Weather 223

58 Three Views 225

59 Two Deaths 227

60 Musical Salute 229

61 Quasthoff 235

62 The End 239

63 Last Letter to Me From Joe 241

Appendix 1 People 245

Appendix 2 Music 279

Photos 308

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