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  • Sound Origins: Developing Your Musical Identity by Robitaille, Jim
    Jim Robitaille

    Sound Origins: Developing Your Musical Identity

    Sound Origins is a comprehensive guide for cultivating a personal sound and style in music. Includes original music scores, examples, exercises, improvisation concepts, and other recommended areas of study. For jazz guitarists, musicians, composers, and teachers interested in further developing their musical identity and...
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  • Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form by Phillips, Damon J.
    Damon J. Phillips

    Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form

    There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring...
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  • Modern Jazz Voicings: Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles [With CD W/ Performance Examples of Different Arranging] by Pease, Ted
    Ted Pease

    Modern Jazz Voicings Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles (Book/Online Audio) [With CD W/ Performance Examples of Different Arranging]

    (Berklee Guide). The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music, this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color, character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered...
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  • The Music Of Mark Sherman: Edition by Forchetti, Sandra
    Sandra Forchetti

    The Music Of Mark Sherman: Edition

    After around 35 years touring the world professionally in the many areas of music as both a sideman, and a leader, I am very proud to finally publish some of my original compositions. It has been many years that people ask me about my...
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  • Willis Conover: Broadcasting Jazz To The World by Ripmaster, Terence M.
    Terence M. Ripmaster

    Willis Conover: Broadcasting Jazz To The World

    Willis Clark Conover Jr. was born on December 18, 1920. Known around the world for his Voice of America radio programs, he also traveled the world as a jazz ambassador. Willis Conover: Broadcasting Jazz To The World recounts the story of his talented life....
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  • Jazz in Short Measures: Jazz History in 10 "Lectures" with Selected CD Recommendations by Rosengarten, Lewis
    Lewis Rosengarten

    Jazz in Short Measures: Jazz History in 10 "Lectures" with Selected CD Recommendations

    Author: Lewis RosengartenISBN-10: 0595190367ISBN-13: 9780595190362Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.04w x 0.34d
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  • Dave Brubeck: Jazz Play-Along Volume 161 by Brubeck, Dave
    Dave Brubeck

    Dave Brubeck: Jazz Play-Along Volume 161

    (Jazz Play Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...
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  • Where Dead Voices Gather by Tosches, Nick
    Nick Tosches

    Where Dead Voices Gather

    A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book -- a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.Author: Nick ToschesISBN-10: 0316895075ISBN-13: 9780316895071Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • You Got to Be Original, Man!: The Music of Lester Young by Büchmann-Møller, Frank
    Frank B?hmann-Mler

    You Got to Be Original, Man!: The Music of Lester Young

    Lester Young, the legendary tenor sax player known as Pres, created earth-shattering music for nearly 25 years. Now for the first time, the many Presophiles around the globe and kindred jazz aficionados will have access to a complete guide to Young's recorded legacy in...
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  • Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Baraka, Amiri
    Amiri Baraka

    Blues People: Negro Music in White America

    Author: Amiri BarakaISBN-10: 0313225192ISBN-13: 9780313225192Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/1980Pages: 259Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.70w x 0.82d
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  • Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth and Middle Age by Davis, Francis
    Francis Davis

    Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth and Middle Age

    Francis Davis is one of this nation's savviest and most admired music and cultural critics. In this collection of essays he observes the modern jazz and pop that have reached middle age at the same moment as many of their listeners, including the author....
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  • Cats of Any Color: Jazz, Black and White by Lees, Gene
    Gene Lees

    Cats of Any Color: Jazz, Black and White

    In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz--both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and the prejudice that Lees documents of some black...
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  • The Real BB Book - Volume 1: BB Edition Book/USB Flash Drive Pack [With USB Flashdrive] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real BB Book - Volume 1: BB Edition Book/USB Flash Drive Pack [With USB Flashdrive]

    (Real Book Play-Along). The Real Book you know and love has now been updated to include backing tracks for 240 songs on one convenient USB flash drive stick The play-along CDs alone are worth $100 so this is an amazing package price The Real...
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  • Missouri Folklore Society Journal: Special Issue: Black Music in the Black Press: an Anthology of Essays from the Heartland by Rice, Marc
    Marc Rice

    Missouri Folklore Society Journal: Special Issue: Black Music in the Black Press: an Anthology of Essays from the Heartland

    Ethnomusicologist Marc Rice immersed himself in African American newspapers published between 1879 and 1935, sifting through hundreds of articles and editorials by Black writers about Black music and musicians. In eight chapters, his Special Issue of the Missouri Folklore Society Journal traces the stars.Author:...
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  • Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto, 1965-1970 (Trade Paper) by Miller, Mark
    Mark Miller

    Way Down That Lonesome Road: Lonnie Johnson in Toronto, 1965-1970 (Trade Paper)

    Toronto was Lonnie Johnson's last stop in a career of stops, at least the eighth city in which he lived for any length of time. The influential African-American singer and guitarist, a formative figure in the history of blues and jazz dating back to...
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  • Experiencing Jazz by Stephans, Michael
    Michael Stephans

    Experiencing Jazz

    In Experiencing Jazz: A Listener's Companion, writer, teacher, and renowned jazz drummer Michael Stephans offers a much-needed survey in the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic, ever-changing art form. More than mere entertainment, jazz provides a pleasurable and sometimes dizzying listening experience...
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  • Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics by Gennari, John
    John Gennari

    Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics

    In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. Jazz critics can be revered or reviled--often both--but they should not be ignored. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly...
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  • Jazz Guitar Comping by Andrew Green
    Andrew Green

    Jazz Guitar Comping

    For most of the recorded history of jazz, the piano has been the main, and usually the only, comping instrument. This text will help guitarists get a handle on the most important job they have when playing in a small group: comping. This book...
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  • Pres: The Story of Lester Young by Delannoy, Luc
    Luc Delannoy

    Pres: The Story of Lester Young

    Author: Luc DelannoyISBN-10: 1557282641ISBN-13: 9781557282644Publisher: University of Arkansas PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1993Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.73d
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  • Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Color Edition by O'Gorman, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. O'Gorman

    Jazz Improvisation Fundamentals: Color Edition

    There are three fundamentals to any great solo: Chords, Scales, and Tone Selection. Learn to use the fundamentals as your three-step approach to jazz improvisation. Over 80 images for Treble and Bass Clef. This book is perfect for beginners, struggling intermediates, and jazz instructors...
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  • Jazz Piano: A Primer for Classical Pianists by Larsen, Janeen J.
    Janeen J. Larsen

    Jazz Piano: A Primer for Classical Pianists

    This unique book is especially designed for traditionally trained classical pianists who are interested in learning the rudiments of jazz piano. It uses a systematic, a step-by-step approach to learning to read jazz lead sheets, and provides simple techniques for beginning jazz and blues...
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  • Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Guitar by Stephane Wrembel
    Stephane Wrembel

    Getting Into Gypsy Jazz Guitar

    This book focuses on the key elements of the Django Reinhardt Gypsy jazz orjazz Manouche guitar style. The information revealed here was gleaned from years of experience jamming with French Gypsies and studying with masters of the style. A native of France, Stephane Wrembel...
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  • Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scenevolume 16 by Jackson, Travis A.
    Travis A. Jackson

    Blowin' the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene Volume 16

    New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence...
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  • Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz by Carlson, Gretchen L.
    Gretchen L. Carlson

    Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz

    2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year--Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'馗hafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream...
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  • Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz by Carlson, Gretchen L.
    Gretchen L. Carlson

    Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz

    2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year--Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'馗hafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream...
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  • Texan Jazz by Oliphant, Dave
    Dave Oliphant

    Texan Jazz

    Texas musicians and jazz share a history that goes all the way back to the origins of jazz in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie. Texans have left their mark on all of jazz's major movements, including hot jazz, swing, bebop, the birth of the cool,...
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  • The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles by Gluck, Bob
    Bob Gluck

    The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles

    Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he was...
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  • Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema by Gabbard, Krin
    Krin Gabbard

    Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema

    American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music...
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  • Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making by Solis, Gabriel
    Gabriel Solis

    Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making

    Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for...
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  • Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West by Pastras, Phil
    Phil Pastras

    Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West

    When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling...
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  • Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles by Bryant, Clora
    Clora Bryant

    Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles

    The musical and social history of Los Angeles's black community from the 1920s through the early 1950s comes to life in this exceptional oral history collection. Through the voices of musicians who performed on L.A.'s Central Avenue during those years, a vivid picture of...
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  • The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History by Deveaux, Scott
    Scott Deveaux

    The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History

    The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz-the birth of bebop-and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment....
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  • Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman by Firestone, Ross
    Ross Firestone

    Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman

    Before Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll, another King ruled the roost of American popular music. His name was Benny Goodman and his domain, the gilded age of Swing. Benny's concerts, records, and radio shows catapulted the hot and controversial sounds of jazz into the hearts...
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  • The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective by Jacobsen, Thomas W.
    Thomas W. Jacobsen

    The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective

    In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim. Jacobsen,...
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  • Historical Jazz Conversations by Eames, Jaron K.
    Jaron K. Eames

    Historical Jazz Conversations

    Legendary names. Names that helped create and shape this music we call jazz. I'm deeply blessed because each of these musical legends and others have sat with me on my local New York Cable TV show in a one -on- one conversation. My show...
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  • Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation by Giddins, Gary
    Gary Giddins

    Rhythm-A-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation

    In a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that provide an essential guide to the jazz world. Moving with ease from sweeping surveys of jazz history to precise,...
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  • Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius - Anniversary Edition by Milkowski, Bill
    Bill Milkowski

    Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius - Anniversary Edition

    A fitting tribute to the troubled genius who revolutionized electric bass playing and bridged the gaps between jazz, R&B, rock and funk. From his early days in R&B club bands through his international stardom with fusion group Weather Report and on to his solo...
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  • Black Music: Essays by Jones (Amiri Baraka), Leroi
    Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

    Black Music: Essays

    "Baraka writes with the passion and lyricism that can only come from a jazz critic who is uncompromisingly invested in the social and aesthetic dimensions of the music." --WBGO (Newark Public Radio)In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's...
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  • Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver by Silver, Horace
    Horace Silver

    Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver

    Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as "hard bop" in the 1950s. This freewheeling autobiography of the great composer, pianist, and bandleader takes us from his childhood in...
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  • Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Kelley, Robin D. G.
    Robin D. G. Kelley

    Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

    From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial.Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: C Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: C Edition

    (Fake Book). The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard...
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  • The André Hodeir Jazz Reader by Hodeir, André
    André Hodeir

    The André Hodeir Jazz Reader

    First trained as a violinist, then as a composer, André Hodeir began writing about jazz in the 1940s. As editor-in-chief of the French magazine Jazz Hot, he was an early proponent of bebop and its practitioners, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Downbeat called Hodeir's...
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  • Free Jazz/Black Power by Carles, Philippe
    Philippe Carles

    Free Jazz/Black Power

    In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long-ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism....
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  • Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats by Spencer, Frederick J.
    Frederick J. Spencer

    Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

    When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer, M.D., conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies...
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  • Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression by Marlow, Eugene
    Eugene Marlow

    Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression

    Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces...
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  • Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression by Marlow, Eugene
    Eugene Marlow

    Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression

    Finalist for the 2019 Jazz Journalists Association Book of the Year About Jazz, Jazz Awards for Journalism "Is there jazz in China?" This is the question that sent author Eugene Marlow on his quest to uncover the history of jazz in China. Marlow traces...
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  • The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson by Loza, Steven
    Steven Loza

    The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson

    Jazz great Gerald Wilson (1918-2014), born in Shelby, Mississippi, left a global legacy of paramount significance through his progressive musical ideas and his orchestra's consistent influence on international jazz. Aided greatly by interviews that bring Wilson's voice to the story, Steven Loza presents a...
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  • Future Jazz by Mandel, Howard
    Howard Mandel

    Future Jazz

    Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in Future Jazz, jazz today is still reaching out in exciting new directions. In a series of vividly drawn portraits and intimate,...
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  • New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans by Swenson, John
    John Swenson

    New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans

    At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of...
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  • Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century by Giddins, Gary
    Gary Giddins

    Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century

    Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time...
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