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Swingers and Crooners Swingers and Crooners Leslie Gourse Describes the lives of notable jazz singers, traces their influence on one another, and investigates the impact of different innovators on the development of jazz music. OL108351W
Timekeepers Timekeepers Leslie Gourse Discusses the role of drumming in jazz and surveys some of the greatest jazz drummers in history, from Warren Baby Dodds and Arthur Zutty Singleton to Tony Williams and Elvin Jones. OL108357W
John Coltrane's Giant Steps John Coltrane's Giant Steps Christopher Raschka John Coltrane's musical composition is performed by a box, a snowflake, some raindrops, and a kitten. OL11634288W
Backstory in blue Backstory in blue John Fass Morton "It may be that the song most baby boomers identify from July 1956 is a simple twelve-bar blues, hyped on national television by a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley and his handlers. But it is a very… OL12047070W
When swing was the thing When swing was the thing John R. Tumpak The Big Band Era of 1935 to 1946 was the only time in America's history when jazz was the most popular form of music. Fifteen piece swinging dance bands swept the country in popularity. The music the… OL13617747W
Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong Patricia McKissack Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the jazz trumpeter who was nicknamed Satchmo. OL14860481W
The Glass Enclosure The Glass Enclosure Alyn Shipton "Bud Powell revolutionized jazz piano in the 1940s by developing a rapidity of thought and execution hitherto matched only by pioneer bebop trumpeters and saxophonists. He combined the harmonic innov… OL15119858W
Lady sings the blues Lady sings the blues Billie Holiday The autobiography of the famous jazz singer, describing her life from her childhood in the Baltimore slums to the drug addiction that tarnished her success. OL15144433W
Twelve bar blues Twelve bar blues Patrick Neate Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans. OL15845648W
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14 Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14 SPRING/BASSETT/BERGER/MARTIN/MORGENSTERN The Annual Review of Jazz Studies (ARJS) is a journal providing a forum for the ever expanding range and depth of jazz scholarship, from technical analyses to oral history to cultural interpretation.… OL16947435W
The baroness The baroness Hannah Rothschild A biography of the author's great-aunt, jazz patroness Nica de Koenigswarter, drawing on family records to examine the traditions that shaped her youth, her marriage to Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, … OL17828173W
The Penguin Quartet The Penguin Quartet Peter Arrhenius Tired of watching over their soon-to-be-hatched eggs, four father penguins form a jazz band and travel to New York to play at all the coolest clubs. OL17836017W
Night in Shanghai Night in Shanghai Nicole Mones ""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sai… OL17914974W
Thriving on a riff Thriving on a riff David Murray - undifferentiated,Graham Lock This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity… OL18784718W
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (Cambridge Companions to Music) The Cambridge Companion to Jazz (Cambridge Companions to Music) Horn, David,Mervyn Cooke Notes -- Works cited -- Principal musicians cited -- Index. OL19349878W
Message to our folks Message to our folks Paul Steinbeck "This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the … OL19746677W
Blue Note Blue Note Francis Wolff One hundred of the musicians who defined the premier jazz label are celebrated in photographs taken from 1948-1969 by Wolff. Each photograph is identified by subject, session or album being cut, and … OL20016265W
Latin jazz guide Latin jazz guide James Dreier "The primary goal of this book is to provide basic and accurate information for a deeper understanding of Latin jazz and to offer a clear path through its rich musical tradition"--Page 6. OL20018319W
Wonderful feels like this Wonderful feels like this Sara Lövestam "The Elegance of the Hedgehog meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this novel celebrating being a little bit odd, finding your people, and the power of music to connect us For Steffi, going to sc… OL20051624W
La Légende du jazz La Légende du jazz Roy Carr,Jacques Chesnel Histoire abondamment illustrée du jazz : les artistes, les lieux, la discographie. Les différents styles y sont présentés en détail : du New Orleans à l'acid jazz, en passant par le be-bop, le soul m… OL20880047W
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