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"In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already." -- John Corbett

John Corbett is a writer, musician, radio host, teacher, record producer, concert promoter, and gallery owner based in Chicago. He is best known among musicians and music fans as a champion of free jazz and free improvisation. In recent years he has become known in the visual art world as well through his Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery.

Corbett's activities include:

musician playing free improvisation, usually on acoustic guitar
staff writer for Down Beat magazine
curator, with Ken Vandermark, of the Wednesday night jazz series at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, since 1996
artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Festival in 2002
record producer; he curates the Unheard Music Series for Atavistic Records, reissuing both classic and obscure recordings of free jazz and free improvisation, and has also produced new recordings by Peter Brötzmann and others
adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he has taught since 1988
co-owner, with Jim Dempsey, of Corbett vs. Dempsey, a Chicago art gallery

For many years he hosted a radio show on WHPK called Radio Dada. More recently, he has co-hosted a jazz show called Writer's Block on WNUR with fellow jazz writers Kevin Whitehead and Lloyd Sachs.

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Total Books: 49

2019 - Pick Up the Pieces Excursions in Seventies Music (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226604732
ISBN-10: 022660473X
Genre: Arts & Photography

2017 - Vinyl Freak Love Letters to a Dying Medium (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822363668
ISBN-10: 0822363666
Genre: Arts & Photography

2016 - Monster Roster Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780935573480
ISBN-10: 0935573488
Genre: Arts & Photography

2016 - A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780226301778
ISBN-10: 022630177X
Genres: Arts & Photography, Reference

2015 - Microgroove Forays Into Other Music (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780822359005
ISBN-10: 0822359006
Genre: Arts & Photography

2013 - Beginning Old English (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780230301405
ISBN-10: 0230301401
Genre: Reference

2013 - Sun Ra Ay Aton Space Interiors and Exteriors 1972 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780984589210
ISBN-10: 098458921X
Genre: Arts & Photography

2012 - Albert Oehlen (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783836535618
ISBN-10: 3836535610
Genres: Arts & Photography, Reference

2012 - English in Medical Education an Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values [Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781847697752
ISBN-10: 1847697755
Genre: Reference

2012 - Christopher Wool (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9783935567596
ISBN-10: 3935567596
Genre: Arts & Photography

2010 - Intercultural Language Activities with Cdrom [Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780521741880
ISBN-10: 0521741882

Historical and Biographical Reminiscences of Schuyler by a Local Historian Published in the Watkins Express Beginning in 1889 by John Corbett Assistant Editor

2010 - Historical and Biographical Reminiscences of Schuyler By a Local Historian Published in the Watkins Express Beginning in 1889 By John Corbett Assistant Editor [Ca. 1889-90] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781112605062
ISBN-10: 1112605061

2010 - Historical and Biographical Reminiscences of Schuyler By a Local Historian (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152209794
ISBN-10: 1152209795

2009 - Sir David Lyndsay's a Satire of the Three Estates [Scotnotes] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780948877957
ISBN-10: 0948877952
Genre: Children's Books

2009 - Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780948877933
ISBN-10: 0948877936

2009 - Crime Prevention (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780578021805
ISBN-10: 0578021803

2009 - Exploring English with Online Corpora an Introduction (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780230551398
ISBN-10: 0230551394

2009 - The Lake Country (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781110682638
ISBN-10: 1110682638

2009 - Justice (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780578000336
ISBN-10: 0578000334

2008 - Copenhagen and Berkeley Presentations (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781440425684
ISBN-10: 144042568X

2004 - Making Shapes with Slate and Marla a Gurteen Anthology (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780954761905
ISBN-10: 0954761901
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2004 - West Dickens Avenue a Marine at Khe Sanh (Audio Cassette) → Paperback, Hardcover

2003 - An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching [Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, 7] (Paperback)

1997 - Language and Scottish Literature (Paperback)

1996 - Art in Chicago 19451995 (Hardcover)

1994 - Extended Play Sounding Off From John Cage to Dr Funkenstein (Hardcover) → Paperback

1994 - Through French Windows an Introduction to France in the Nineties (Hardcover) → Paperback

1975 - Basic French Grammar (Paperback)

Ardmore International Film Studios Limited Investigation Under Section 165 of the Companies Act 1948 Report [formerly known as New Brighton Tower Company Limited - b] (Other)

Design for Manufacture Strategies Principles and Techniques [Addison Wesley Series in Manufacturing Systems] (Hardcover)

Curriculum for Design Manufacturing Phase Preparation Material for Design Teaching (Paperback)

A Time and Place for Mirth and Mischief (Other)

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