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  • Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso by Ansell, Derek
    Derek Ansell

    Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso

    Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
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  • Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso by Ansell, Derek
    Derek Ansell

    Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso

    Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
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  • The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change by Hurley, Andrew Wright
    Andrew Wright Hurley

    The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change

    Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer, Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its ideological renunciation during the Nazi...
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  • Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity by Cisneros, Carol
    Carol Cisneros

    Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity

    Heart of Grace is a deeply personal and poetic memoir by Carol Cisneros, who invites readers to experience the transformative power of self-love, healing, and grace. Through poignant verses and heartfelt reflections, Carol takes us on a journey of emotional discovery, offering solace and...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 2: 'Round Midnight: Revelation and Experience in the T by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 2: 'Round Midnight: Revelation and Experience in the T

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 3: Misterioso: Freedom for Liberation in Creation by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 3: Misterioso: Freedom for Liberation in Creation

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian, who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender by Reddan, James
    James Reddan

    The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender

    The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration...
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  • Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers by Feinstein, Sascha
    Sascha Feinstein

    Writing Jazz: Conversations with Critics and Biographers

    Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Balliett, Bob Blumenthal, Stanley Crouch, Linda Dahl, Maxine Gordon, Farah Jasmine Griffin, John Edward Hasse, Willard Jenkins, Hettie Jones, Robin D. G. Kelley, Laurie Pepper, Tom Piazza, Ricky Riccardi, and A. B. Spellman. This...
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  • Sax Expat: Don Byas by Chapman, Con
    Con Chapman

    Sax Expat: Don Byas

    Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others--but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly...
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  • Sax Expat: Don Byas by Chapman, Con
    Con Chapman

    Sax Expat: Don Byas

    Don Byas (1913-1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others--but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly...
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  • A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music by Chambers, Jack
    Jack Chambers

    A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music

    In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington's music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington's work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which...
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  • A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music by Chambers, Jack
    Jack Chambers

    A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man in the Music

    In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington's music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington's work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which...
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  • The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking by Fischlin, Daniel
    Daniel Fischlin

    The Improviser's Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking

    An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser's Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care. Demonstrating...
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  • Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene by Greenland, Thomas H.
    Thomas H. Greenland

    Jazzing: New York City's Unseen Scene

    How do we speak about jazz? In this provocative study based on the author's deep immersion in the New York City jazz scene, Tom Greenland turns from the usual emphasis on artists and their music to focus on non-performing participants, describing them as active...
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  • Carla Bley by Beal, Amy C.
    Amy C. Beal

    Carla Bley

    This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. With fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions over the last fifty years spanning critical moments in jazz...
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  • Everyone Has Sight: But It Takes A Photographer To See by Moody, Boston
    Boston Moody

    Everyone Has Sight: But It Takes A Photographer To See

    After my honorable discharge from the Army, I found myself working for a company that manufactured stereo receivers and speakers. As a traffic manager, my days were filled with routine tasks, and after three years, I grew increasingly restless. Seeking guidance, I visited one...
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  • Jazz Legends Alphabet by Feiner, Beck
    Beck Feiner

    Jazz Legends Alphabet

    From Coltrane to Davis, Fitzgerald to Armstrong, Jazz Legends Alphabet is the quintessential A to Z of the smoothest, coolest, hippest cats to have ever made jazz music. Written with rhythm and illustrated with style, Jazz Legends Alphabet will make your little legend the...
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  • Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies by Marvin, Elizabeth West
    Elizabeth West Marvin

    Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies

    Interdisciplinary articles bridge the gulf between classical and popular music. Modern musical-analytical techniques are applied to a wide range of Western music, disregarding barriers between different kinds of music. Topics discussed fall into three sections: compositional poietics (poietics being the pre-compositional activities of composer...
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  • Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz by Terrill, Richard
    Richard Terrill

    Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz

    Writes Richard Terrill, "The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is "faking," making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music...
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  • Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity by Cisneros, Carol
    Carol Cisneros

    Heart Of Grace; My Journey Through Art And Adversity

    Author: Carol CisnerosISBN-13: 9798893245028Publisher: Franklin Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
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  • Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924 by Wondrich, David
    David Wondrich

    Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

    The early decades of American popular music are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music -- black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude -- made it onto records for all to...
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  • John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3 by Johnson, Bruce
    Bruce Johnson

    John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

    A study of John Sangster's jazz suite Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. At more than 6 LP recordings, the Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based on the Tolkien books,...
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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor
    E. Taylor Atkins

    Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

    A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the...
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  • In Love with Voices: A Jazz Memoir by Torff, Brian Q.
    Brian Q. Torff

    In Love with Voices: A Jazz Memoir

    "A career in music ... is a calling with such a strong pull; you'd think a tide was sucking you under. It becomes an intense obsession of such great intensity that you can almost think of nothing else, it drives you with a fever...
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  • The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Floyd, Samuel A., Jr.
    Samuel A. Jr. Floyd

    The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the...
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  • Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 1: Epistrophy: Historical and Hermeneutical Background by Carr, Raymond
    Raymond Carr

    Theology in the Mode of Monk: An Aesthetics of Barth and Cone on Revelation and Freedom, Volume 1: Epistrophy: Historical and Hermeneutical Background

    This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian who constructed his theology "from above" and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black...
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  • Waits/Corbijn '77-'11 by Corbijn, Anton
    Anton Corbijn

    Waits/Corbijn '77-'11

    Now back in print, this stunning, award- winning visual odyssey encapsulates the essence of Tom Waits' enigmatic persona and Anton Corbijn's distinctive photographic style. Spanning over three decades, this extraordinary book showcases the enduring collaboration between a legendary musician and a renowned Dutch photographer--a...
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  • John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3 by Johnson, Bruce
    Bruce Johnson

    John Sangster's the Lord of the Rings, Vols. 1-3

    A study of John Sangster's jazz suite The Lord of the Rings contextualized with biographical and cultural studies of the composer in the 1970s. In three volumes and more than six LP recordings, The Lord of the Rings suite, produced during the 1970s, based...
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  • Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation, and Remix by Inglis, Chris
    Chris Inglis

    Electro Swing: Resurrection, Recontextualisation, and Remix

    Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music. Author: Chris InglisISBN-10: 1032184302ISBN-13: 9781032184302Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
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  • Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941 by Oliphant, Dave
    Dave Oliphant

    Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941

    The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists established important styles that brought...
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  • 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by Kaplan, James
    James Kaplan

    3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

    Author: James KaplanISBN-10: 0525561021ISBN-13: 9780525561026Publisher: Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.50w x 1.00d
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  • Doctor Jazz by Carruth, Hayden
    Hayden Carruth

    Doctor Jazz

    Hayden Carruth is a major literary figure and no survey of American poetry is complete without inclusion of his work.In this newest book of poems--the first since his 1996 National Book Award--Carruth confronts the threadbare memories of old age and the fading winter view....
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  • The John Coltrane Reference by Porter, Lewis
    Lewis Porter

    The John Coltrane Reference

    The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008.Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and...
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  • 101 Walking Jazz Bass Lines: Learn to Build & Play Walking Basslines on Every Essential Jazz Chord Sequence by Cox, Johnny
    Johnny Cox

    101 Walking Jazz Bass Lines: Learn to Build & Play Walking Basslines on Every Essential Jazz Chord Sequence

    Master All The Changes With 101 Walking Jazz Bass LinesDo you struggle with creating smooth, engaging basslines in jazz? Tired of feeling lost when navigating complex jazz chord progressions? 101 Walking Jazz Bass Lines is your complete guide to creating fluid, articulate basslines for...
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  • Sonny Rollins

    Sonny Rollins Play-Along: Real Book Multi-Tracks Volume 6

    (Real Book Multi-Tracks Play-Along). Today's best way to practice jazz! Accurate, easy-to-read lead sheets and professional, customizable audio tracks accessed online for 10 songs. The interactive, online audio interface includes: tempo control; looping; buttons to turn each instrument on or off; lead sheet with...
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  • Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes: Master the Art of Latin Jazz Guitar In 7 Beautiful Etudes by Taylor, Martin
    Martin Taylor

    Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes: Master the Art of Latin Jazz Guitar In 7 Beautiful Etudes

    Ready to master Latin Jazz guitar soloing?Discover the intricacies of Latin Jazz guitar with Martin Taylor's Latin Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes. You'll take an intimate look into the techniques and pieces that define Latin Jazz, brought to life by one of the world's foremost...
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  • Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression by Buscatto, Marie
    Marie Buscatto

    Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression

    Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art--not to "japanize" jazz, but to assert one's creativity, passion, and capacity for self-expression--establishing it as an art form with its own...
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  • Philosophy of Jazz by Feige, Daniel Martin
    Daniel Martin Feige

    Philosophy of Jazz

    What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first book-length philosophical discussions devoted to jazz. Daniel Martin Feige explores the relationship...
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  • Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words by Gluck, Bob
    Bob Gluck

    Pat Metheny: Stories beyond Words

    An in-depth exploration of the style and influence of Pat Metheny, a truly distinctive musical voice of our time. Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of our time, has for five decades toured with his many creative musical projects,...
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  • Jazz Radio America by Johnson, Aaron J.
    Aaron J. Johnson

    Jazz Radio America

    Once a lively presence on radio, jazz now finds itself relegated to satellite broadcasters and low-watt stations at the edge of the dial. Aaron J. Johnson examines jazz radio from the advent of Black radio in 1948 to its near extinction from the commercial...
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  • Jazz Habana by Vidal, Gonzalo
    Gonzalo Vidal

    Jazz Habana

    Author: Gonzalo Vidal, Enrique 'Kike' SmithISBN-10: 1914278704ISBN-13: 9781914278709Publisher: Amaurea PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2024Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.38d
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  • Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso by Ansell, Derek
    Derek Ansell

    Sonny Clark - Fragile Virtuoso

    Sonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
    $23.99
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  • The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Tye, Larry
    Larry Tye

    The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz--Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie--who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become...
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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by Atkins, E. Taylor
    E. Taylor Atkins

    Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

    A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan. In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from...
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  • Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society by Sarath, Edward W.
    Edward W. Sarath

    Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society

    Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a...
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  • The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association by Adler, David R.
    David R. Adler

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music.90 contributors represent the finest music writers and photographers alive todayTheir skill, wisdom, insight, and generosity...
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  • The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association by Adler, David R.
    David R. Adler

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association

    The Jazz Omnibus: 21st-Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association is a spectacular anthology of works by 90 international experts in jazz and related music. This deluxe dust-jacketed hardcover edition is an essential collectible for any music library.90 contributors represent...
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  • Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 by Wilkinson, Christopher
    Christopher Wilkinson

    Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942

    Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Jazz Music-Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big band jazz during the Great Depression. That a prosperous African American audience dominated by those...
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  • Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod - From the Revival to Acid Jazz by Piller, Eddie
    Eddie Piller

    Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod - From the Revival to Acid Jazz

    This 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 wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with...
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  • Fusion!: From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother by Coles, Alex
    Alex Coles

    Fusion!: From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother

    The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the origins and legacy of blended musical genres by focusing on twelve dynamic collaborations. From...
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