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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Language
English
Description
Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a history of each musical style, from its roots to its expression along with glimpses of the lives of leading composers and musicians. This volume focuses on the music style of jazz.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the famous trumpeter who was one of the first great improvisers in jazz history. The story of the black musician who rose from poverty in New Orleans to the heights of the jazz world. One of America's most beloved entertainers, Louis Armstrong revolutionized jazz and helped establish it as the nation's first highly popular black art form.
Author
Publisher
Fish Out of Water Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Self-proclaimed teenage philosopher Cordell Wheaton lives in a sleepy, southern town where nothing ever happens; not since his hero, jazz musician John Coltrane, left some seventy years earlier to "follow the sound." Cordy's life has been unraveling since the night his father and his brother, Travis, exploded on each other. The night Travis's addiction transformed him from budding musician into something entirely different. The night Travis took...
10) Total jazz
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In these freewheeling short stories, vignettes, and sketches that originally appeared in Jazzman magazine, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the genre and its creators but the nature of the subculture. The grumpy festival-goer, the curmudgeonly collector, the anxious auditioner, and many others are his targets. As improvisional as Coltrane and Mingus, Blutch captures the excitement of live performance and of creating and listening to...
16) Billie Holiday
Author
Series
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on behalf of a New York daily. Beyond the public scandals that marred the life of the star (alcohol, drugs, violence ...), he seeks to restore the truth, revisiting the memory of Billie. Through this investigation,...
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