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Out of Nowhere
the musical life of Warne Marsh
Soft cover. 318 pages. ISBN 978-0-595-51090-0

 

The book has been described (see “Readers’ Comments”) as one of the finest books written on ‘the music’ of any genre, and has made such an impact on several readers that, once the book was finished, they started reading it again.

This is as true for some who knew Warne very well as for those who did not know him at all and had never heard his music. There are not many books related to music that have that effect.

"I couldn't recommend it more highly! Being that it is written about my father (a loaded subject at the least) I found it to be supremely insightful and informative. Marcus manages to put his feet in Warne's shoes and tell us what he was seeing in the world around him as he grew up and played music.... It is brilliant."
K.C. Marsh, USA (May 2002)

"The book is one of the very best music books I've ever read ... an outstanding piece of jazz literature. Congratulations!"
Roland Baggenaes, Denmark (June 2002)

"It has the serenity of complex and perfect harmony."
Philippe Paschel, France (December 2003)

More Information about Warne Marsh, "Out of Nowhere" & Readers Comments

Warn Marsh Discography

  

Note for Note (Another Pentateuch) - Book 1: Plough
Paperback. ISBN 978-0-595-53218-6
First published December 2008 by i-Universe

In this daring exploration of primeval consciousness Marcus Cornelius has
seemingly managed to convey the unknowable. In an achievement of literary genius he has given extraordinary expression to an inchoate time before history.

The inspired prose flows with a richly dense imagery containing astonishingly eloquent passages that are demanding and uncompromising.

One finishes Plough enlightened and changed, led to the deepest reaches of the psyche, to places in the self that are almost beyond the capacities of language. There is not a word out of place.

A remarkable tour-de-force that will forever change how you read a book.

Cover painting The Tribes by Maria Jamieson.
Used by kind permission of the artist.



growth.gifNote for Note (Another Pentateuch) - Book 2: Growth
Paperback. ISBN 978-1-440-16600-6
First published September 2009 by i-Universe

Book 1: Plough spoke of the attempted search for consciousness of primeval being born of and surrounded by apparent incoherence.

Growth, the second book of Note for Note, explores the self subsumed by community, separation of self from community, and the exercising of choice amongst the fragility of a derived or assumed order that comes under threat.

Ranweh, the Keeper of the Song, prepares to instruct Aimin, the keeper of the child, who is to be the main performer at the year’s most significant ceremony, an event that sanctifies the order that has been intuited from chaos and apparent incoherence. Unbeknownst to Ranweh, a taboo has been broken, contradicting the order that is taken as read, the very order that the ceremony celebrates. For the first time in living memory the Protector will not preside over the rites because he has no choice but to be elsewhere. The events take place downstream from and some centuries after the events in Book 1: Plough.

(The other three books in the pentateuch - Book 3: Harvest, Book 4: Snow, and Book 5: Scatter - will also be published by i-Universe)
Cover painting The Tribes by Maria Jamieson.
Used by kind permission of the artist.

    
           
 
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