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The Shadow And The Act : Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, And Philosophical Pragmatism

Highbrow/lowdown : Theater, Jazz, And The Making Of The New Middle Class

Straight Ahead

He And She

Don’t Deny My Name : Words And Music And The Black Intellectual Tradition

From Lush To Lively

Nicky’s Jazz For Kids

Happy Together Live At Birdland Volume 1

Moving To Higher Ground : How Jazz Can Change Your Life

  • Moving To Higher Ground : How Jazz Can Change Your Life
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    Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward
  • Publication Details

    Book, Random House, 2008
  • Description

    ?In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America?s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life?from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense.? Marsalis shows us how to listen to jazz, and through stories about his life and the lessons he has learned from other music greats, he reveals how the central ideas in jazz can influence the way people think and even how they behave with others, changing self, family, and community for the better. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  ML3506 .M34 2008  AVAILABLE

Clawing At The Limits Of Cool : Miles Davis, John Coltrane And The Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

Jazz Arranging Techniques : From Quartet To Big Band

A Trumpet Around The Corner : The Story Of New Orleans Jazz

  • A Trumpet Around The Corner : The Story Of New Orleans  Jazz
  • Attribution

    Samuel Charters
  • Publication Details

    Book, University Press of Mississippi, 2008
  • Description

    A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. The book extends the study area of his earlier book Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1957, and breaks new ground with its in-depth discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  ML3508.8.N48 C44 2008  AVAILABLE

A Night In Tunisia

Song For Chico

Subversive Sounds : Race And The Birth Of Jazz In New Orleans