Duke Ellington's America
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Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of...
The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work
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Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a...
Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
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In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers,...
Beneath the Underdog
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Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in...
How to Listen to Jazz
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In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible...
Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s
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New York is often described as the greatest city in the world. Yet much of the iconic architecture...
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Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley
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Cannonball Adderley introduces his 1967 recording of "Walk Tall", by saying, There are times when...
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools...
Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen
Bjorn Heile, Peter Elsdon and Jenny Doctor
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Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on...
Is That All There is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee
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"She made you think that she knew who you were, that she was singing only to you..." Miss Peggy Lee...