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Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections During ...
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant med...
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and ...
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Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct styli...
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Who Was Duke Ellington?
PaperbackOriginal price $6.99 - Original price $6.99Original price $6.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /How did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the "Master Of Jazz"? Find out in this additio...
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Mama Got Rhythm Daddy Got Rhyme
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /★ It don't mean a thing... If you ain't got that swing. ★Like many six-year olds, Jasmine doesn't like the music her parents listen to, so her pare...
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Moving and Grooving to Fillmore's Beat
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From music to art to poetry, creativity filled the air in the Fillmore District. The creativity and inclusion brought communities together--with no...
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¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! El Baile Que Atravesó La Barrera del Color
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /New York City's desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mamb...
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Who Was Duke Ellington?
Library BindingOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /How did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the "Master Of Jazz"? Find out in this addition ...
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MilesStyle: The Fashion of Miles Davis
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Miles Davis is one of the most revered artists of the last 100 years, regardless of the art form. Credited with ushering in a new age of jazz more ...
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Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, cri...
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Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95Original price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Since ascending onto the world stage in the 1990s as one of the premier bassists and composers of his generation, William Parker has perpetually to...
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a s...
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The Geography of Jazz
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz music as an experience and an inspiration.Product DetailsISB...
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¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! the Dance That Crossed Color Lines
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /New York City's desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mamb...
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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. I...
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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch ...
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Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, cri...
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Trombone Shorty
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Caldecott Honor BookAmerican Library Association Coretta Scott King Book Award WinnerSTARRED REVIEW *“Well-told and exquisitely illustrated . ....
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Seven Guitars
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Pulitzer Prize—winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 19...
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Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /He was born "Black, poor, and lucky." The glowing story of "Satchmo"—the great jazz musician, Louis Armstrong.Louis Armstrong has been called the...
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Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /He was born "Black, poor, and lucky." The glowing story of "Satchmo"—the great jazz musician, Louis Armstrong.Louis Armstrong has been called the...
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From Caldecott Honor winner Christian Robinson and acclaimed author Renee Watson, comes the inspiring true story of Florence Mills.Born to parent...
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The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found...
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