New York City in the 1960s is the humming backdrop for this poignant, gritty story about a girl who sees her parents as flawed human beings for the first time, and finds the courage to make a fresh start. Missy’s mother has gone back to...
Jazz
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Auteur:Park, JeffSommaire:This striking volume effortlessly draws the reader in, exhaling the vitality of music greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Miles Davis and many more. Here is a book for both jazz fans and poetry readers as it pays...
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Auteur:Cooke, Mervyn editorSommaire:The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography.
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Auteur:Bett, StephenSommaire:Sound Off: A Book of Jazz, is loosely, a "serial" poem, a book of 76 linked poems, each responding (himself as a jazz fan) to the work of 76 very current jazz musicians. These "jazzers", as he calls them, are not the...
- Auteur:Péan, StanleySommaire:
Après De préférence la nuit, Stanley Péan revient avec autant d'entrain, de savoir historique et de ferveur pour défendre et illustrer le monde du jazz. Cette fois-ci, rien que des femmes : une galerie de seize musiciennes qui ont...
- Auteur:JOHNSON, StephanieSommaire:
A fortnight after jazz pianist Carl Tyler's funeral, Tamara has one week to go before she leaves New Zealand to return to her native Chicago. Nola wants to solve the mystery of her son's death, to know everything Tamara can...
- Auteur:Jago, Marian, Thompson, DonSommaire:
In the 1950s and ’60s, co-operative jazz clubs opened their doors in Canada in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and the lack of performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated by the musicians...
- Auteur:Martin, HenrySommaire:
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Auteur:Szwed, John F.Sommaire:John Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant-garde in less than fifty years....
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Auteur:Capilongo, DomenicoSommaire:Hold the Note is a wide-ranging collection unified by a jazzy, syncopated writing style — dynamic, sometimes experimental, often playful, yet always passionately engaged, sensual and visceral. Themes include the author''s Italo-Canadian...
- Auteur:English, T. J.Sommaire:
From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America."[A] brilliant and courageous...
- Auteur:Marrelli, Nancy, Litherland, PaulSommaire:
The area now called Little Burgundy was the birthplace of jazz in Montreal. Explore the textures of Montreal’s jazz era through an array of rare jazz artifacts, including swizzle sticks and menus from renowned Montreal nightclubs,...
- Auteur:Péan, StanleySommaire:
In Black and Blue, author and radio personality Stanley Péan guides us through a history of jazz, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He takes us behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the...
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Auteur:Radio ArchivesSommaire:The music of a generation, preserved for generations yet to come. It's the Big Bands, live and on the air, presented in this exciting Radio Archives collection. Dance music "remotes" from ballrooms, hotels, and nightspots...
