Jazz
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A Horn for Louis: Louis Armstrong–As a Kid!
$6.99 Add to cartHow did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn?
Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mothe- Series: Stepping Stone Chapter Books
- Author: Kimmel, Eric A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0375840052
- Language: English
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Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
$28.00 Read moreWith striking photographs and personal insight, a compelling biography of the great American saxophonist and free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman.
Ornette Coleman’s career encompassed the glory years- Author: Golia, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145600
- Language: English
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Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago’s Black Metropolis
$29.95 Read moreBronzeville was once America’s most vibrant Black community–next to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the streets of Chicago’s South Side. Not much is left. A
- Author: Dubin, Steven C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1733869026
- Language: English
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Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
$29.99 Read moreThis is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London.
A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then… WHAAAM! An unstoppable- Author: Piller, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 180096059X
- Language: English
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
$31.99 Add to cartNoted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of the most significant record labels in the history of popular music. “Kahn mingles engaging stories o… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330710
- Language: English
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Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography
$21.99 Add to cartA jazz legend shares his life in a story as lyrical as his music
A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1- Author: Bechet, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811081
- Language: English
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In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz
$26.95 Add to cartThe beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877-1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden’s powerful horn from
- Author: Marquis, Donald M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0807130931
- Language: English
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Hear Me Talkin’ to YA
$24.99 Read more“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” — Charlie Parker
“What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling.” — Coleman Hawkins
“The bes- Series: Dover Books on Music
- Author: Shapiro, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 01, 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217264
- Language: English
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Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
$19.99 Add to cartGary Giddins has been called “the best jazz writer in America today” (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has … [more below]
- Author: Giddins, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0306810131
- Language: English
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Black and Blue: Jazz Stories
$17.95 Read moreAuthor and radio personality Stanley P饌n is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind
- Author: Péan, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1550656112
- Language: English
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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
$19.99 Add to cartHampton Hawes [1928-1977] was one of jazz’s greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of th… [more below]
- Author: Hawes, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 06 2001
- ISBN10: 1560253533
- Language: English
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The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
$19.99 Add to cartThe Jazz Ear will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing.–Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times
Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what t- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509086X
- Language: English
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
$16.95 Add to cartJazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and sits near the top of any list o… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0306815583
- Language: English
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Sittin’ in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s
$45.00 Read moreA rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-
- Author: Gold, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0062914707
- Language: English
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldo
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: O’Meally, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0231104499
- Language: English
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Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell.
FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Gidde- Author: Watson, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0571361668
- Language: English
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Elegant People: A History of the Band Weather Report
$32.95 Read moreElegant People is the definitive history of Weather Report, the premier fusion band of the 1970s and beyond.
Founded in late 1970 by three stars of the jazz world–keyboardist Joe Zawinul, saxophonist
- Author: Bianchi, Curt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493059998
- Language: English
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A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage
$21.99 Add to cart“Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.”–New York Times Book Review
Since the release of his first best-selling al- Author: Jackson, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0306810018
- Language: English
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Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
$24.99 Add to cart“The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806797
- Language: English
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
$23.00 Add to cartJohn Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become w
- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427786
- Language: English
