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  • Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum by Lester, James
    James Lester

    Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum

    Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of performance." Whitney Balliett wrote "no pianist has ever hit...
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  • Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930 by Kenney, William Howland
    William Howland Kenney

    Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930

    The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses,...
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  • The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition by Williams, Martin
    Martin Williams

    The Jazz Tradition: Second Revised Edition

    When it was first published in 1970, this lively and fascinating book was greeted with almost universal acclaim. The American Record Guide called it "the best one-volume of jazz we have," and the Jazz Journal praised it as "a brilliant study of the whole...
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  • The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Schuller, Gunther
    Gunther Schuller

    The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945

    Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat...
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  • Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Schuller, Gunther
    Gunther Schuller

    Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development

    Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz...
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  • Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back by Slobin, Mark
    Mark Slobin

    Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back

    This is the first-ever historical study across all musical genres in any American metropolis. Detroit in the 1940s-60s was not just "the capital of the twentieth century" for industry and the war effort, but also for the quantity and extremely high quality of its...
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  • Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde by Iverson, Jennifer
    Jennifer Iverson

    Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

    For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into...
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  • Love Songs: The Hidden History by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    Love Songs: The Hidden History

    The love song is timeless. From its beginnings, it has been shaped by bohemians and renegades, slaves and oppressed minorities, prostitutes, immigrants and other excluded groups. But what do we really know about the origins of these intimate expressions of the heart? And how...
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  • Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion by Bivins, Jason C.
    Jason C. Bivins

    Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion

    In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped. Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing a history, or...
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  • Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study by Terefenko, Dariusz
    Dariusz Terefenko

    Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study

    Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study, Second Edition, is a comprehensive textbook for those with no previous study in jazz, as well as those in advanced theory courses. Written with the goal to bridge theory and practice, it provides a strong theoretical foundation...
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  • Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit by Brennan, Matt
    Matt Brennan

    Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit

    The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit:...
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  • George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans by Bethell, Tom
    Tom Bethell

    George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans

    George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much...
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  • George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans by Bethell, Tom
    Tom Bethell

    George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans

    George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much...
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  • Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Ra, Sun
    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label

    Considered the foremost exponent of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra mastered a wide array of styles that spanned jazz, R&B, exotica, Afro-hybrids, electronic, big band, solo piano, orchestral, experimental, and chamber works. In his 45-year recording career, he issued an epic number of albums and he...
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  • Teaching School Jazz: Perspectives, Principles, and Strategies by West, Chad
    Chad West

    Teaching School Jazz: Perspectives, Principles, and Strategies

    Written by an experienced and diverse lineup of veteran jazz educators, Teaching School Jazz presents a comprehensive approach to teaching beginning through high school-level jazz. Thoroughly grounded in the latest research, chapters are supported by case studies woven into the narrative. The book therefore...
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  • Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by English, T. J.
    T. J. English

    Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

    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 book. --Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of...
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  • Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by English, T. J.
    T. J. English

    Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld

    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 book. --Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition - Mini Edition: C Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

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

    (Fake Book). Hal Leonard proudly presents new "mini" editions of its best-selling Real Books. These 5.5 x 8.5 little books pack a big jazz punch; they include all 400 fantastic songs found in the 9 x 12 versions: All Blues * Au Privave *...
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  • Miles by Davis, Miles
    Miles Davis

    Miles

    Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly and openly about his...
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  • Off the Books: A Jazz Life by Leitch, Peter
    Peter Leitch

    Off the Books: A Jazz Life

    Many jazz lives have unfolded as marginal existences, as jazz guitarist Peter Leitch attests in this honest memoir of a life lived in search of excellence in music and art, but also a life lived battling depression, alienation, and narcotics addiction. Leitch vividly relates...
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  • Brazilian Rhythms for Guitar: Samba, Bossa Nova, Choro, Baião, Frevo, and Other Brazilian Styles, Book & CD by Arana, Carlos
    Carlos Arana

    Brazilian Rhythms for Guitar: Samba, Bossa Nova, Choro, Bai縊, Frevo, and Other Brazilian Styles, Book & CD

    Educator and performer Carlos Arana captures Brazil's rich musical heritage with impeccable stylistic, historic, and technical analyses. The first section of this book covers the fundamental rhythmic and harmonic characteristics of samba, bossa nova, and choro styles followed by practical applications on the guitar....
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  • Jazz Guitar Workshop - 12 Key Jazz Guitar Workout Major & Melodic Minor Edition by Green, Robert
    Robert Green

    Jazz Guitar workshop - 12 key jazz guitar workout Major & Melodic Minor Edition

    Jazz Guitar Workshop - 12 Key Jazz Guitar Workout Major and Melodic Minor Edition Jazz Guitar wood shedding exercises in 12 keys - The Major scales modes and arpeggios over 2 octaves in 12 keys. Diatonic triads, diatonic 7th chords, broken thirds, sequences, triadic...
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  • Jazz: A Beginner's Guide by Nicholson, Stuart
    Stuart Nicholson

    Jazz: A Beginner's Guide

    This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early...
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  • Playing Lead Trumpet: DVD by Bergeron, Wayne
    Wayne Bergeron

    Playing Lead Trumpet: DVD

    Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron is a Yamaha Performing Artist and Concord Recording Artist. Wayne is enjoying a career as one of the most active lead trumpet players in the world. With the Playing Lead Trumpet DVD, Wayne Bergeron discusses and demonstrates the essential aspects of...
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  • Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley by Ginell, Cary
    Cary Ginell

    Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley

    WALK TALL: THE MUSIC & LIFE OF JULIAN CANNONBALL ADDERLEYAuthor: Cary GinellISBN-10: 1458419797ISBN-13: 9781458419798Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2013Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
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  • Notes and Tones: Musician-To-Musician Interviews by Taylor, Arthur
    Arthur Taylor

    Notes and Tones: Musician-To-Musician Interviews

    Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. It consists of twenty-nine no-holds-barred conversations which drummer Arthur Taylor held with the most influential jazz musicians of the '60s and '70s-including: Art Blakey Betty Carter Don...
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  • Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis by Dubin, Steven C.
    Steven C. Dubin

    Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis

    Bronzeville 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 few sound recordings, memories passed down from generation to generation, and--until now--only a...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Eb Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Eb 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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  • Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Watson, Philip
    Philip Watson

    Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

    The 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 Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin...
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  • Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews by Gleason, Ralph J.
    Ralph J. Gleason

    Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews

    An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in...
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  • Guitar: Guitar Music Book For Beginners, Guide How To Play Guitar Within 24 Hours by Mahalo, Tom
    Tom Mahalo

    Guitar: Guitar Music Book For Beginners, Guide How To Play Guitar Within 24 Hours

    Updated Content On February 4, 2018, + Extra Bonus AddedLearn How To Play The Guitar Within 24 Hours TodayThis book will help you: Learn the guitar in a record time. If you would love to learn how to play the guitar, but have not...
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  • Sittin' in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s by Gold, Jeff
    Jeff Gold

    Sittin' in: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s

    A 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-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold and featuring exclusive interviews with Quincy...
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  • The Real Book by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book

    (Fake Book). Since the 1970s, The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition...
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  • Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear by Barbera, Karen S.
    Karen S. Barbera

    Duke Ellington: The Notes the World Was Not Ready to Hear

    Karen Barbera and Randall Keith Horton were strangers who met on a train. A cordial conversation led to an eight-year collaboration to tell new and enlightening stories about Duke Ellington and to bring his forgotten masterpieces back to life. The results are concerts and...
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  • Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by DeVito, Chris
    Chris DeVito

    Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews

    Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader pollJohn Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and risky. Nevertheless, he persisted, and his recordings...
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  • Chasin' the Bird: A Charlie Parker Graphic Novel by Chisholm, Dave
    Dave Chisholm

    Chasin' the Bird: A Charlie Parker Graphic Novel

    The graphic novel tells the story of Bird's time in L.A. starting in December 1945, where Bird and Dizzy Gillespie brought frenetic sounds of bebop from the East Coast jazz underground to the West Coast for a two-month residency at Billy Berg's Hollywood jazz...
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  • R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [With CD Audio] by Crumb, R.
    R. Crumb

    R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [With CD Audio]

    "Gorgeous. One of the music--and art--books of the year." (The Guardian) A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him, R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country is a must-have collection for Crumb aficionados, comics fans,...
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  • Boysie's Horn: The History of Jazz in Wilmington in the 20th Century by Leech, Steven
    Steven Leech

    Boysie's Horn: The History of Jazz in Wilmington in the 20th Century

    In Boysie's Horn, social historian, radio host, producer, journalist, and novelist Steven Leech highlights the influence of one of America's greatest jazz educators, Boysie Lowrie, in making African American Wilmington, Delaware a launchpad for national performers like vibraphonist Lem Winchester, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and...
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  • How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
    La Marr Jurelle Bruce

    How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

    "Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly...
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  • William Claxton. Jazzlife by Berendt, Joachim E.
    Joachim E. Berendt

    William Claxton. Jazzlife

    In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted musicologist Joachim E. Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz. Through music halls and marching bands, side streets and subways, they sought to document this living, breathing, beating musical phenomenon that enraptured America...
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  • Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper by Pepper, Art
    Art Pepper

    Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper

    Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book--it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is...
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  • Sweet Music in Harlem by Taylor, Debbie
    Debbie Taylor

    Sweet Music in Harlem

    Searching his Harlem neighborhood for his uncle's missing hat, an energetic African American boy unintentionally creates an exuberant gathering of the neighborhood's jazz musicians for a magazine photograph; a fictional story inspired by Art Kane's historic photograph of jazz greats, Harlem 1958.C. J. needs...
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  • The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Bass Clef Edition by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Real Book - Volume I - Sixth Edition: Bass Clef 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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  • Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Triovolume 15 by La Barbera, Joe
    Joe La Barbera

    Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Triovolume 15

    In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans, one of the most influential jazz musicians of all time, was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each part equal emphasis in what jazz historian Ted...
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  • Blues People by Jones, Leroi
    Leroi Jones

    Blues People

    "A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." -- Langston Hughes"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music--through the music...
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  • How to Listen to Jazz by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    How to Listen to Jazz

    A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal) In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us...
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  • The Art of Jazz: A Visual History by Shipton, Alyn
    Alyn Shipton

    The Art of Jazz: A Visual History

    The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art. Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you...
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  • The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Gioia, Ted
    Ted Gioia

    The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia...
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  • Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans by Armstrong, Louis
    Louis Armstrong

    Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans

    "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the...
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  • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by Szwed, John
    John Szwed

    Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

    Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing...
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