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200 Of the Best Songs from Swing Eraby Rob DuboffISBN 0793556589 (0-7935-5658-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Aeroblem Pilot's Journal: 1939-1959by Max MorganISBN 0811817555 (0-8118-1755-5)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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An American Dreamby Norman MailerISBN 0805003495 (0-8050-0349-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner's Song. As Rojack runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. Sensual, horrifying, and informed by a vision that is one part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go. [via]More editions of An American Dream:
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Ageby Kevin BoyleISBN 0805079335 (0-8050-7933-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes.
And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.[via]Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.More editions of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age:
The Art of Ragtime: Form and Meaning of an Original Black American Artby William John Schafer, Johannes RiedelISBN 0807102202 (0-8071-0220-2)
Hardcover, Louisiana State University Press
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Bag of Bonesby Stephen KingISBN 0786217219 (0-7862-1721-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Benny Goodman, Listen to His Legacyby D. Russell ConnorISBN 0810820951 (0-8108-2095-1)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Best of Weather Reportby Weather ReportISBN 0793524156 (0-7935-2415-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Billie's Blues: A Survey of Billie Holiday's Career, 1933-1959by John ChiltonISBN 0812818210 (0-8128-1821-0)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Bird in the Bushby Kenneth RexrothISBN 0836916239 (0-8369-1623-9)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Black Danceby Lynne Fauley EmeryISBN 0836992903 (0-8369-9290-3)
Hardcover, Books for Libraries
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Black Music, Four Livesby A.B. SpellmanISBN 0805202811 (0-8052-0281-1)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920sby Daphne HarrisonISBN 0813512808 (0-8135-1280-8)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japanby E. Taylor AtkinsISBN 082232721X (0-8223-2721-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soulby Roger D. Abrahams, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson, Nick SpitzerISBN 0812239598 (0-8122-3959-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxtonby Graham LockISBN 0822324407 (0-8223-2440-7)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A Story of Crime And Celebrity in 1920s New Yorkby Stephen Duncombe, Andrew MattsonISBN 0812977351 (0-8129-7735-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime And Celebrity in 1920s New Yorkby Stephen Duncombe, Andrew MattsonISBN 0814719805 (0-8147-1980-5)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazzby Richard B. Allen, William John SchaferISBN 0807102806 (0-8071-0280-6)
Hardcover, Louisiana State University Press
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The Charlie Parker Companion: Six Decades of Commentaryby Carl WoideckISBN 0825671701 (0-8256-7170-1)
Softcover, Schirmer Books
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The Chronicle of Jazzby Mervyn CookeISBN 0789203995 (0-7892-0399-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Classic Jazz Standards: 56 Jazz Essentialsby Hal Leonard CorpISBN 0793583179 (0-7935-8317-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Classic Songs Recorded by Frank SinatraISBN 0825615240 (0-8256-1524-0)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
Find This BookBook summary:This volume contains 20 classic songs made famous by one of the greatest voices of all time - Frank Sinatra. The songs are arranged for voice, piano, & guitar with lyrics. Titles: *All of me *Angel eyes *But beautiful *A garden in the rain *Here's that rainy day *The house I live in *Imagination *I thought about you *It started all over again *Let's get away from it all *The night we called it a day *Oh, how I miss you tonight *Oh! You crazy moon *Polka dots & moonbeams *Somewhere along the way *Sunday, Monday or always *Swinging on a star *There are such things *This love of mine *Yes indeed [via]
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The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgeraldby Zelda Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Mary GordonISBN 0817308849 (0-8173-0884-9)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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Django Reinhardtby AyeroffISBN 0825640830 (0-8256-4083-0)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Django Reinhardt Anthology: Transcribed And Edited by Mike Petersby Django ReinhardtISBN 0793525160 (0-7935-2516-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Down Beat: 60 Years of Jazzby John McDonough, Frank AlkyerISBN 0793534917 (0-7935-3491-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Enter the Giants, 1931-1944by Humphrey LytteltonISBN 0800807286 (0-8008-0728-6)
Hardcover, Taplinger
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Eric Clapton: From the Album Eric Clapton Unpluggedby Eric ClaptonISBN 0793520843 (0-7935-2084-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Songs: Hey Hey : Layla : Lonely Stranger : Walkin' Blues : Tears In Heaven : Before You Accuse Me (take A Look At Yourself) : Signe : Alberta : Malted Milk : Nobody Knows Y [via]More editions of Eric Clapton: From the Album Eric Clapton Unplugged:
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Eric Clapton Unplugged: For Easy Guitar With Notes and TablatureISBN 0793536162 (0-7935-3616-2)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Parisby Craig LloydISBN 0820328189 (0-8203-2818-9)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkensteinby John CorbettISBN 0822314738 (0-8223-1473-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935by Thomas J. HennesseyISBN 0814321798 (0-8143-2179-8)
Softcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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A Handbook of Jazzby Barry UlanovISBN 083717659X (0-8371-7659-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Eraby Lewis Watts, Elizabeth PepinISBN 0811845486 (0-8118-4548-6)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Hero and the Bluesby Albert MurrayISBN 0826201474 (0-8262-0147-4)
Hardcover, University of Missouri Press
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The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Ladies Jazz Band from Piney Woods Country Life Schoolby D. Antoinette HandyISBN 0810831600 (0-8108-3160-0)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Jazz Favoritesby Frank MantoothISBN 0793571626 (0-7935-7162-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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The Jazz Guitar Artistry of Barney Kesselby Barney KesselISBN 0793587050 (0-7935-8705-0)
Softcover, Ashley Mark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jazz Guitar Artistry of Barney Kessel'Book summary:(Book). Exact transcriptions of eight original guitar solos from Barney Kessel's contemporary recordings. Includes: 64 Bars on Wilshire * Barney's Blues * Begin the Blues * Easy Like * Foreign Intrigue * Salute to Charlie Christian * more. [via]
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Jazz Guitar Chord Melodiesby Dan ToweyISBN 0793558271 (0-7935-5827-1)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Jazz Guitar Standards Chord Melody Solosby VariousISBN 078667024X (0-7866-7024-X)
Softcover, Mel Bay Pubns
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The Jazz Handbookby Barry McRaeISBN 0816118280 (0-8161-1828-0)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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Jazz Improvisation: Contemporary Piano Stylesby John MeheganISBN 0823025748 (0-8230-2574-8)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Jazz Improvisation for the Classical Pianistby Martan MannISBN 0825612292 (0-8256-1229-2)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Jazz Love Songsby Hal Leonard CorpISBN 0793582075 (0-7935-8207-5)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Jazz Piano Concepts & Techniques: Concepts & Techniquesby John ValerioISBN 0793571758 (0-7935-7175-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Jazz Riffs for Guitarby Richard BoukasISBN 082562178X (0-8256-2178-X)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Jazz Standards: Melody Line, Chords and Lyrics for Keyboard, Guitar, VocalISBN 0793588723 (0-7935-8872-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Jazz Writings: Essays and Reviews 1940-84by Philip Larkin, John White, Richard PalmerISBN 0826476996 (0-8264-7699-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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John Coltrane: A Discography and Musical Biographyby Lewis Porter, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Yoh-Ichi HamadaISBN 081082986X (0-8108-2986-X)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Josephine Baker and LA Revue Negre: Paul Colin's Lithographs of Le Tumulte Noir in Paris, 1927by Henry Louis Gates, Paul Colin, Karen C.C. DaltonISBN 0810927721 (0-8109-2772-1)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The Joy of Jazz: Book 2by AgayISBN 0825680670 (0-8256-8067-0)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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The King of All, Sir Duke Ellington and the Artistic Revolution: Ellington and the Artistic Revolutionby Peter LavezzoliISBN 0826413285 (0-8264-1328-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Liberary of Big Band Hitsby Music Sales Staff, Ronny S. SchiffISBN 0825614120 (0-8256-1412-0)
Softcover, Omnibus Pr
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Listen to This!: Leading Musicians Recommend Their Favorite Recordingsby John Baxter, Alan RederISBN 0786882603 (0-7868-8260-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Lulu in Hollywoodby Louise Brooks, Kenneth TynanISBN 0816637318 (0-8166-3731-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Manchild in the Promised Landby Claude BrownISBN 0808510584 (0-8085-1058-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Manhattan Transfer SongbookISBN 0793520819 (0-7935-2081-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Mickey Baker's Jazz & Guitar Rhythm 'N Blues Guitarby Mickey BakerISBN 0825626455 (0-8256-2645-5)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991by Paul TingenISBN 0823083608 (0-8230-8360-8)
Softcover, Billboard Books
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A "must have" for every Miles Davis fan! Miles Beyond dares to venture where not other biographer has gone before. It offers the first in-depth exploration and analysis of Miles Davis's controversial electric period and the violent split of sentiment it produced within the jazz community.
One of the twentieth century's genuine musical geniuses, Miles Davis was a pioneer of such jazz styles as cool, hardbop, and the fusion of orchestral music and jazz in his work with arranger Gil Evans. Yet, when he boldly experimented with rock and African music in the late '60s, giving birth to "fusion" or "jazz-rock," Davis alienated many of his jazz fans. However, his electric explorations enduredand its impact on the music world is still being felt today.
Based on new research, as well as exclusive, first-hand recollections by over 50 musicians, partners, producers, and artists, Miles Beyond offers hundreds of never- before-revealed facts, insights, and revelations about Miles's remarkable artistic and personal life. Readers will discover a new perspective on Miles's working methods, as well as in in-depth, chronological understanding and analysis of the music produced from 1967 to 1991a period that's been both neglected and misunderstood. [via]
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Miles Davis: The Man in the Green Shirtby Richard WilliamsISBN 0805027041 (0-8050-2704-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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More Than a Fake Bookby Charles MingusISBN 0793509009 (0-7935-0900-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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New Dutch Swingby Kevin WhiteheadISBN 0823083349 (0-8230-8334-9)
Hardcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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New History of Jazzby Alyn ShiptonISBN 0826473806 (0-8264-7380-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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All the great names in jazz history are here, from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis and from Sidney Bechet to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. But unlike those historians who call a halt with the death of Coltrane in 1967, Shipton continues the story with the major trends in jazz over the last 40 years: free jazz, jazz rock, world music influences, and the re-emergence of the popular jazz singer.
This new edition brings the book completely up-to-date, including such names as John Medeski, Diana Krall, Django Bates, and Matthias Ruegg. There are also impor¬tant new sections on Latin Jazz and the repertory movement.More editions of New History of Jazz:
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Observations from the Barby Leslie Ann NashISBN 0811817865 (0-8118-1786-5)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fieldsby Deborah Grace Winer, Betty ComdenISBN 082567204X (0-8256-7204-X)
Hardcover, Schirmer Books
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The Origin and Development of Jazzby Otto WernerISBN 0840332327 (0-8403-3232-7)
Softcover, Kendall/Hunt Pub Co
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogueby Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, Ingrid MonsonISBN 0819566829 (0-8195-6682-9)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Patterns, Scales, and Modes for Jazz GuitarISBN 0825625521 (0-8256-2552-1)
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Queen City Jazzby Kathleen A. GoonanISBN 0812536266 (0-8125-3626-6)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Countryby Stephen Calt, David A. Jasen, Richard Nevins, Terry ZwigoffISBN 0810930862 (0-8109-3086-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0812978188 (0-8129-7818-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Manby Anthony S. Abbott, P. EllisonISBN 0812035208 (0-8120-3520-8)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Real Little Ultimate Jazz Fake Book: C Edition Over 625 Songsby Herb WongISBN 0793520053 (0-7935-2005-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz Giantby John ChiltonISBN 0826465358 (0-8264-6535-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Sinatra Treasures: Intimate Photos, Mementos, And Music From The Sinatra Family Collectionby Charles Pignone, Quincy Jones, Frank SinatraISBN 0821228374 (0-8212-2837-4)
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Standard Ballads: 10 Great Songs in New Arrangements in Carefully Chosen Keys Especially for Singers Women's Editionby Richard WaltersISBN 0793583489 (0-7935-8348-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light Districtby Al RoseISBN 0817344039 (0-8173-4403-9)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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Suderby Percival L. EverettISBN 0807123870 (0-8071-2387-0)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Swing: Library Editionby Rupert HolmesISBN 0812970977 (0-8129-7097-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Swing and Early Progressive Piano Styles: Jazz Improvisation IIIby John MeheganISBN 082302573X (0-8230-2573-X)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940sby Sherrie TuckerISBN 0822328178 (0-8223-2817-8)
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That Crazy American Musicby Paul EhISBN 0804607621 (0-8046-0762-1)
Hardcover, Gateway/Associated Faculty Pr
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Thelonious Monk: Intermediate Piano SolosISBN 0793587581 (0-7935-8758-1)
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They All Played Ragtimeby Rudi BleshISBN 082560091X (0-8256-0091-X)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0804114803 (0-8041-1480-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual. It is a complex portrait of a versatile mind in a restless generation that reveals rich ideas crucial to an understanding of the 1920s and timeless truths about the human need for--and fear of--change.
"A very enlivening book indeed, a book really brilliant and glamorous, making as agreeable reading as could be asked . . . There are clever things, keen and searching things, amusingly young and mistaken things, beautiful things and pretty things . . . and truly inspired and elevated things, an astonishing abundance of each, in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. You could call it the youthful Byronism that is normal in a man of the author's type, working out through a well-furnished intellect of unusual critical force."
--The Evening Post, 1920
"An astonishing and refreshing book . . . Mr. Fitzgerald has recorded with a good deal of felicity and a disarming frankness the adventures and developments of a curious and fortunate American youth. . . . [It is] delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life. At last the revelation has come. We have the constant young American occupation--the 'petting party'--frankly and humorously in our literature."
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Torch Songs: 9 Great Heart-On-The-Sleeve Standards in New Arrangements in Carefully Chosen Keys Especially for Singersby Rick WaltersISBN 0793583470 (0-7935-8347-0)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hallby Iain Cameron WilliamsISBN 0826458939 (0-8264-5893-9)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Waiting for Dizzy: 14 Jazz Portraitsby Gene Lees, Terry TeachoutISBN 0815410379 (0-8154-1037-9)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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The Way You Wear Your Hatby Bill ZehmeISBN 0786214376 (0-7862-1437-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way You Wear Your Hat'Book summary:NonfictionLarge Print Edition*A New York Times BestsellerA charming, entertaining look at Sinatras life. Publishers WeeklyTwentieth-century entertainer extraordinaire, Frank Sinatra, did nothing halfway. Wherever he went became his personal playground, and he rounded up the most colorful cronies alive the Rat Pack. Masterfully assembled in this book are the most personal details of how the role of Frank Sinatra was played in everyday life, crafted from interviews with Tony Bennett, Robert Wagner, Angie Dickinson and Joey Bishop, as well as daughters Nancy and Tina. [via]
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Why Sinatra Mattersby Pete HamillISBN 0786217537 (0-7862-1753-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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