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Massarutto, Flavio

Summary: ""I play what I am. I play Mingus." Bass player and pianist, composer and band leader, Charles Mingus is universally recognized as one of the greatest musicians in the history of jazz. An overflowing talent, who experienced the last fires of the swing age, the Be Bop revolution, the experimental seasons of Third Stream and Jazz Poetry up to Free Jazz. But he was also a tormented and angry soul,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 MINGUS, CHARLES MAS

Daoudi, Youssef

Summary: She is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius fighting against the whims of his troubled mind. Their enduring friendship begins in 1954 and ends only with Monk's death in 1982. Set against the backdrop of New York during the heyday of jazz, Monk! explores the rare alchemy between two brilliant...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.216 DAU

Paramore, Austin

Summary: "What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000--a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC. 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 PAR

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