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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (1 hr., 17 min., 50 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Shellac instead of stardust: when Santa Claus takes off his boots and unpacks the gramophone after his work is done: Bear Family Records® delves deep into the shellac box! No intrusive bells, chumming ho-ho's or strangely distorted reindeer voices: Every year around the same time the displays of the department stores are bending with hastily and often suspiciously similar compiled 'swing' samplers, since 'swing is coming back'. Our journey through...
5) Grateful
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 foldout.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Singer Al Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, the fifth child of a minister father and a piano-playing mother. Growing up Black in the inner city, he attended Lincoln High School, where he was a prominent student leader, athlete and musician. He earned degrees in psychology and counseling at Ripon College and the University of Iowa. Al moved to San Francisco, where he was a counselor by day and a jazz singer by night. Quitting his day job, he forged a...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists-Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans-who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue. The myth of the 60s depends on the 1950s being the before times of conformity, segregation, straightness-The Lonely Crowd...
9) Small worlds
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hard cover edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
11) Visions
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (45 min., 33 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and joyous 12-song set that finds Norah Jones singing about feeling free, wanting to dance, making it right, and acceptance of what life brings. It's the yang to the yin that was Pick Me Up Off the Floor, Jones's last album of new original songs, which was released in the pandemic lockdown of 2020 and foreshadowed many of the dark emotions of that period.
Author
Series
Mount Desert Island volume 6
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bar Harbor Summer Nights sizzle with jazz music, late-night dance parties on the beaches of Maine, and a belief that new chapters begin whenever you say they do. It's a summer Angie and the rest of the Harvey Sisters won't forget.Angie's life has revolved around one thing and one thing only: music. As a new Bar Harbor resident, it's up to her to cultivate a jazz group that rivals the one she left back home in Chicago -- on that fills her heart and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her father. But now he's dead, and she's newly arrived and alone,...
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