An Oblique Autobiography, by Yve-Alain Bois; ed. Jordan Kantor. San Francisco and New York: no place press, 2022. 376 pages.THE PUBLICATION of Yve-Alain Bois’s latest book marks a watershed in the oeuvre of this influential scholar. What is the place of this most personal (and most surprising) of Bois’s publications in the arc of a career that extends from his cofounding of the groundbreaking journal Macula in the mid-1970s to teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Harvard to his tenure as professor at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies, a position he held from 2005 to 2022? What insights
Holy grails from Nico Fidenco and Alessandro Alessandroni are also being unearthed by Sonor Music Editions
Published May 27, 2021
Late last year, Italian music innovator Sandro Brugnolini sadly passed away at the age of 89. But the library/jazz titan has hardly been forgotten. In fact, one of his most highly regarded but most elusive albums,
Utopia, is only now getting its first-ever reissue.
Longtime Brugnolini champions Sonor Music Editions have announced that they will be unearthing the hugely sought-after 1972 album for the very first time, with
Utopia finally coming back to vinyl on June 28.
With the record now being essentially impossible to find, it originally arrived via Bruno Nicolai s esteemed Gemelli label, and it s indeed a holy grail of a record. Being truly epic in scope and sound, Brugnolini was at the top of his game on