buddy's knife jazzedition

buddy’s knife jazzedition is a book publisher in Cologne, Germany that specializes in the publication of jazz books. It was established in 2007 by the journalist, editor and ethnologist Renate Da Rin.

Publications

The first volume published by buddy‘s knife was a selection of poetic work by the American jazz bassist Henry Grimes. signs along the road presents a selection of previously unpublished entries from thousands of pages of diaries he wrote during his thirty-year absence.

Also published in March 2007 was the book who owns music? by William Parker.It is a compilation of his political thoughts, musicological essays and poems. Parker, contrabassist like Grimes, is together with his wife Patricia Nicholson Parker, the founder of the Vision Festival in New York.

Published in March 2009 was the book subway moon by saxophonist Roy Nathanson, former member of the Lounge Lizards and founder of the Jazz Passengers. Roy Nathanson has toured Europe with the Jazz Passengers often and played at major festivals in several European countries along with performing at the J.V.C. Festival in New York.

In March 2010 buddy’s knife jazzedition published the anthology silent solos – improvisers speak. This project, edited by Renate Da Rin (co-editor Guy N. Fraser), features the written artistry of 50 internationally renowned improvising musicians from today’s avant-garde scene, including Leena Conquest, Cooper-Moore, Jayne Cortez, Charles Gayle, Gunter Hampel, Oliver Lake, Yusef Lateef, Joёlle Léandre, Sabir Mateen, Nicole Mitchell, William Parker, Matana Roberts, Larry Roland, Matthew Shipp, Warren Smith, Lisa Sokolov and David S. Ware, with a foreword by George E. Lewis.

Plans for the future include part II of the anthology and further authorial literature. In September 2011, the latest buddy's knife jazzedition book project "music in my soul" - the autobiography of the late alto saxophonist Noah Howard - was released.

In 2015 giving birth to sound - women in creative music was published by Renate Da Rin as editor and William Parker as co-editor. giving birth to sound is a collection of contributions by 48 women musicians of the creative music scene, inter alia Jay Clayton, Marilyn Crispell, Claudine François, Terry Jenoure, Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Mazur, Nicole Mitchell, Maggie Nicols, Angelika Niescier, Lisa Sokolov, Ijeoma Chinue Thomas, Fay Victor, Jessica Williams …

List of publications

• Henry Grimes: signs along the road. buddy’s knife jazzedition, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-020142-4
• William Parker: who owns music?. buddy’s knife jazzedition, Cologne 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-020141-7
• Roy Nathanson: subway moon. buddy’s knife jazzedition, Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-025376-8
• Renate Da Rin (ed.): silent solos - improvisers speak. buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-030557-3
• Noah Howard: music in my soul. buddy's knife jazzedition, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-034401-5
• Renate Da Rin (ed.)/William Parker (co-ed.): giving birth to sound - women in creative music. buddy's knife jazz edition, Cologne 2015. ISBN 978-3-00-049279-2

The name

The company’s name buddy’s knife refers to the intersection at which legendary trumpeter Buddy Bolden, a revolutionary spirit who exposed himself to danger, meets the knife he used as a tool to sever bonds with tradition.

External links

• Official website