Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience
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In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the...
Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia
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Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia is not merely an A-Z guide to the artists and bands who have shaped...
Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz
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Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans...
Really The Blues
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Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life...
Nothing is Worth More Than This Day
Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras
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There really always is something to celebrate, as Kathryn Petras truly learned when undergoing...
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...
Inside the Whimsy Works: My Life with Walt Disney Productions
Jimmy Johnson, Greg Ehrbar and Didier Ghez
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In this never-before-published memoir from the files of The Walt Disney Archives, Disney Legend...
The Axeman's Jazz
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Inspired by a true story, set against the heady backdrop of jazz-filled, mob-ruled New Orleans, The...
Dead Man's Blues
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Dead Man's Blues is the gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, the author of The...
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...