No Beethoven
An Autobiography & Chronicle of Weather Report
[Weather Report] By Peter Erskine
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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.
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.
Contents
| Title | |
| Foreword by Mitch Haupers | |
| 1. Thus Spake Zawinul | |
| 2. Club Harlem | |
| 3. Weather Report Is a Big Band | |
| 4. I Join the Band | |
| 5. Mr. Gone | |
| 6. Summer of '61 | |
| 7. Joe | |
| 8. Educating Peter | |
| 9. Guardian Angels | |
| 10. School | |
| 11. Interlochen | |
| 12. Indiana U. | |
| 13. Summer of 1972 | |
| 14. The Stan Kenton Orchestra | |
| 15. On the Road | |
| 16. Music Companies - Interlude | |
| 17. In Praise of Zildjian | |
| 18. In Further Praise of Elvin | |
| 19. Yamaha | |
| 20. Drum Workshop | |
| 21. Slingerland Drums | |
| 22. I Leave Kenton | |
| 23. Maynard Ferguson | |
| 24. Tokyo, Japan, 1978 | |
| 25. Jaco | |
| 26. Weather Report Attitude | |
| 27. Weather Report's Contentious Ways | |
| 28. Living in California | |
| 29. Recording Session Stories | |
| 30. Go East, Young Man | |
| 31. But First, Down South | |
| 32. Cue Now ... I'll Take Manhattan | |
| 33. Peter Erskine: On the Record | |
| 34. More Sounds in the Big Apple | |
| 35. Common Denominator | |
| 36. Steps Ahead & New York City | |
| 37. Madarao, Japan | |
| 38. Tachikawa to Santa Monica | |
| 39. What the Hell? | |
| 40. And Baby Makes 4 | |
| 41. The Play's the Thing | |
| 42. The ECM Recordings | |
| 43. Competition | |
| 44. Life Goes On | |
| 45. Plays Well with Others | |
| 46. Diary of Two Film Sessions | |
| 47. Back to the Classics | |
| 48. Flying to Japan Again | |
| 49. Me and Japan | |
| 50. Life 2 | |
| 51. More Talk About Life and Art | |
| 52. USC | |
| 53. Whither Jazz Goest? | |
| 54. Wayne | |
| 55. From Fearless to Self-conscious | |
| 56. Weather Report Drummers | |
| 57. Stormy Weather | |
| 58. Three Views | |
| 59. Two Deaths | |
| 60. Musical Salute | |
| 61. Quasthoff | |
| 62. The End | |
| 63. Last Letter to Me from Joe | |
| Appendix 1: People | |
| Appendix 2: Music | |
| Photos |
Additional Information
| Artist: | Weather Report |
| Author: | Peter Erskine |
| Format: | Book |
| Page Count: | 334 |
| Item Number: | 98-0989253017 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-9892530-1-5 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-9892530-1-7 |
| UPC: | 038081470153 |
