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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The History of Jazz, 3rd edition, is a comprehensive survey of jazz music from its origins until the current day. The book is designed for general readers and students, as well as those with more specialized interest in jazz and music history. It provides detailed biographical information and an overview of the musical contributions of the key innovators in development of jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins,...
64) Jazz
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
History of jazz that explains what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the broader context of American life and culture. Emphasizing its African American roots, Jazz traces the history of the music over the last hundred years. From ragtime and blues to the international craze for swing, from the heated protests of the avant-garde to the radical diversity of today's artists, Jazz describes the travails and triumphs of...
Publisher
Dreamscape
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances, and live concert footage, the film is steeped in the energetic...
69) Utah Jazz
Author
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Summarizes the history of the Utah Jazz professional basketball team, highlighting memorable events and noteworthy players.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a century and won her generations of fans around the world. Acclaimed author Andrea Davis Pinkney has told Ella's inspiring story in the voice of Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan whose imagined narrative sings with the infectious rhythms of...
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band heading toward Lake Eden for the Weekend Jazz Festival, Hannah Swensen is more than happy to bake up a generous supply of their namesake confections. But tragedy strikes when the band's tour bus overturns on its way into town. Among those injured is Buddy Neiman, the band's beloved keyboard player. At first, Buddy's injuries appear minor, until his condition suddenly takes a turn for the worse, as in dead. Hannah's...
72) Too late blues
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
A bandleader scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep body and soul together without betraying his muse. A sexy would be singer with a dark past who meets the bandleader at a party and joins his band. The two fall deeply in love, but their world comes crumbling down after the leader and his band are involved in a bar fight and the leader is overcome by fear and is unable to fight back, the humiliation causes him to reject her and his...
Author
Series
Play-a-long book and CD set volume 42
Publisher
Jamey Aebersold Jazz
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive documentary of Afro-American jazz bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus who led a tumultuous life filled with trauma and frustration, joy and creativity. Nine years in the making and exhaustively researched, virtually everything used in the film is extraordinarily rare. Abundant clips of Mingus in performance in the 1960s and 1970s perfectly illustrate the many faces and tortured heart of a musical genius.
76) Memories of Duke
Publisher
MVD
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A loving homage to Duke Ellington, shot in 1968, as the bandleader and his musicians play their way through a Mexican tour. In addition to the concert performance, there are interviews with musicians Russel Procope and Cootie Williams, and historic scenes from early films in which Ellington and his band perform.
78) The true welcome
Series
Jazz volume episode 4
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
1929-1935: The big band music that had incubated in the dance halls of Harlem begins to spread across the country. Benny Goodman gives birth to the Swing Era. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Series
Jazz volume episode 5
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
1935-1937: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw--musicians become matinee idols. Billie Holiday emerges from a tragic childhood to become jazz's greatest female singer. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
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