Bøger af Don Alberts

Author's note Music composition is an ongoing process, a never ending stream of ideas. It is a form of life and often the only reasonable definition. Music has the power to survive one past many difficulties. The consistent flow of melodies and detached musical thoughts can be a calming form of meditation when needed, a shield against unwanted mental intrusion, but it can also persistently invade your daily affairs.

Don Alberts ""Rock of the Moon"" poetry collection includes works from 1995 to poems currently published in 2018 of varied subjects describing jazz, nature, spirituality, love, humility, inspiration, discovery, and spoken word.""Rock of the Moon"" is a rare ore, mined by a poet who's also a professional jazz performer and composer.The themes stretch across genres and transend the barriers to both personal creativity and interpersonal communication. As Don Alberts puts it, ""the void is affected with images and congruence, and, in a fortissimo of darkness and pulse, the verse is married with music"".

AN OUTDOOR ACTION ADVENTURE Sheriff Louis Parker is driven in pursuit of hardened criminal Billy McClain in the death of fellow police officer Lino Crocetti during a bank robbery in Monterey. The pursuit of McClain winds deep into the North Yukon Territory with his guide Sam Getty, a veteran mountain man who believes spiritual powers reside within the mountains. Author Don Alberts exposes his outdoor achievement in a wild chase into the north mountain wilderness as young sheriff Louis Parker, an unready neophyte at the hard and serious conditions of the outdoors is driven in criminal pursuit. Parker avoids tragedy through the efforts and skill of his faithful guide, Sam Getty; a man who believes in the mountains and finds intuitive powers among them. Beyond the Grand Matoeba provides an invigorating foray into danger, conflict, and the survival powers of human character, good and bad.

Historical documentation and perspective on Jazz music, the social and political environment of the period of the 1960's in San Francisco through local area musicians stories and interviews. "When you played with a certain group of players you belonged. Every protocol applied. You could not be late regardless of the situation, whether for money or for rehearsal or even a jam session. The problems of one were known by all. Within that circle great musicians found shelter among those who understood the life."