Jazz
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Jazz
By Toni MorrisonAt the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This novel “transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious” (People).
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Jazz
By Toni MorrisonThis passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.
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Jazz: Midnight
By Gary Scott BeattyAward winning veteran comic writer and artist Gary Scott Beatty's jazz piano man Dean Fontessa returns in five standalone stories on a central theme that come together with a twist -- like a masterful, cool jazz solo!
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Jazz: The Essential Companion
By Brian Priestley, Ian Carr, Digby FairweatherCovering the entire spectrum of jazz from its origins in ragtime through the latest developments, there are important essays on all the major jazz figures, lucid definitions of jazz terms,...
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Jazz: A Beginner's Guide
By Stuart NicholsonThis definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner’s Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon.
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Jazz: A History of America's Music
By Geoffrey C. WardThe companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for The Civil War and Baseball. Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey...
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Jazz: A History
By Frank TirroJazz is a democratic music in the best sense of the word, for it is the collective achievement of a people.
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Jazz: A History of America's Music
By Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. WardThe book contains fascinating portraits of Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, and hundreds of other jazz artists. This is a companion volume to the acclaimed PBS documentary.
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Jazz: An American Journey
By Brian HarkerThis package contains the following components: -0205178960: Prentice Hall Jazz Collection CD, Jazz Styles -0131831240: 3 Compact Disc Set -013098261X: Jazz: An American Journey
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Jazz: A Novel
By Toni MorrisonFrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions,...
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Jazz: Grove Music Essentials
By Mark Tucker, Travis JacksonJ. Wright and S.A. Floyd (Warren, MI, 1992), 245–87 R. Crawford and J. Magee: Jazz Standards on Record, 1900–1942: a Core Repertory (Chicago, 1992) Y. Hayashi and others: Tokyo Shitamachi Jazzdori (Tokyo, 1992) K. Stratemann: Duke ...
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Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present
By Lewis Porter, Michael Ullman, Ed HazellThis entertaining one-volume comprehensive history of jazz and the artists who made it popular contains musical examples so that students who do not read music will not be...
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Jazz
By John FordhamBriefly traces the history of jazz, profiles important musicians and movements, looks at how jazz instruments are played, and describes influential albums
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Jazz
By Walter Dean Myers"Exuberant music, powerful narration, and image-filled poetry combine to create this extraordinary recording, winner of ALA's first Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production." The Horn Book
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Jazz: Research and Pedagogy
By Eddie S. MeadowsJazz and the White Americans: The Acceptance of a New Art Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962; London: Jazz Book Club, 1964. theauthor«s doctoral dissertation at Harvard, TheAcceptance of ... The Rise of a Jazz Art World.
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Jazz
By Walter Dean MyersIn addition to its colorful and lyrical celebration, the book includes a brief introductory essay about the history and form of jazz, as well as a timeline and glossary of jazz terms.
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Jazz
By Gary Giddins, Scott DeVeauxThe story of jazz for the general reader as it has never been told before, from the inside out: a comprehensive, eloquent, scrupulously researched page-turner.
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Jazz: Then & Now
By David Lee FishDescribes the personalities, cultural conditions, musical influences, and technologies that helped jazz emerge and evolve. Each of the book's 13 chapters covers an era in jazz history by focusing on the people who shaped the music.
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Jazz: A History
By Frank TirroAn account of the great movements, moments, and personalities in the history of jazz, from African roots to current styles, draws on a variety of enlightening sources and perspectives This book is intended to serve as a guide to the music ...
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Jazz: New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World's Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars
By Nat Hentoff, Albert J. McCarthy"The names of Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy have become almost synonymous with jazz writing. Hentoff, editor of Jazz Review, writer for Downbeat, High Fidelity, New Yorker, and The...