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 PARMassarutto, 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 MASSummary: Billy Tipton was a transgender jazz musician whose career spanned the 1930s through the 1970s, but this fact wasn't known until after his death in the late 1980s. At the time, his story was framed as that of an ambitious woman merely trying to get ahead in a male-dominated music scene, but by collaborating with trans artists, that story is correctly celebrated as that of a trans culture icon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NORussell-Brown, Katheryn
Summary: "A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LISTON RUSOrgill, Roxane
Summary: Relates how the famous jazz trumpeter began his musical career, as a poor boy in New Orleans, by singing songs on street corners and playing a battered cornet in a marching band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARMSummary: Discover the life and music of jazz luminary Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history. Filmed over six years, Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes invites viewers to meet the gentleman behind the bass. Best known as the rhythmic anchor in Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, Carter has since amassed more than 2,500 musical credits over a prolific six-decade career. His unmistakable melody...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RONRubio, Salva
Summary: "Before the legend, before the man, there was Django Reinhardt the child. In order to grow from a banjo prodigy living in the Romani 'Zone' outside Paris into the master of Gypsy Jazz guitar who would go on to play with Duke Ellington, Django would first have to endure the agonizing event that would change his life: the fire that burned his hand and almost destroyed his future. Django, Hand on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 921 REINHARDT, DJANGO RUBOndaatje, Michael
Summary: Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber, cornet player, and full-time editor of a gossip sheet, disappears for two years, and when he returns, he goes berserk and spends his final years in the East Louisiana state hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONDArmstrong, Louis
Summary: One of the world's best-loved performers, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, headlines this exclusive concert, performed and shot in Australia circa 1964. A five-piece band comprised of Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, Danny Barcelona, Trummy Young and Joe Darensbourg, backs up Armstrong, while singer Jewel Brown lends added vocal support. Selections include: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco, " "Sweet Georgia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LOUWarrell, Laura
Summary: "An ensemble-cast novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and the multiple women-some charmed by him, others scorned-who find the power of their own voices in this thrilling debut It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies man, lives for his music, and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARKurkov, Lisa
Summary: "Bud Caldwell, the protaganist of Christopher Paul Curtis's novel Bud, Not Buddy, is on a mission to find the man he believes to be his father--bandleader Herman E. Calloway. In this nonfiction companion to the popular novel, you'll explore what real life was like during the Depression-era setting of the book, who the real jazz musicians of the era were, and what life was like living in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 KURSummary: The documentary chronicles the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, a poor Jewish kid who grew up in 1940s East End, London who became owner of the eponymous nightclub. Musical greats spanning decades played at Ronnie₂s including Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Chet Baker, and Jimi Hendrix, who played there the night of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RONSummary: A bandleader scuffles from gig to gig with his band, trying to keep body and soul together without betraying his muse, a sexy would-be singer with a dark past who meets the bandleader at a party. When she joins his band, the two fall deeply in love, but their world comes crumbling down after the leader and his band are involved in a bar fight and he is overcome by fear and is unable to fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOOBerman, Kathleen Cornell
Summary: Explores the childhood and early career of the noted jazz trumpeter who gained fame performing at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1955.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAVSummary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRAPayne, M. D. (Matthew D.)
Summary: "A pivotal fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington was the bandleader of the historic Cotton Club and a master composer -- writing close to 3,000 songs in his lifetime and capturing the spirit of the Black experience in the Unites States. Over a50-year career, Ellington became one of the biggest names in jazz as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ELLPowell, Bud.
Contents: Tempus fugue-it -- Celia -- Cherokee -- I'll keep loving you -- Strictly confidential -- All God's chillun got rhythm -- So sorry please -- Get happy -- Sometimes I'm happy -- Sweet Georgia Brown -- Yesterdays -- April in Paris -- Body and soul -- Hallelujah! -- Tea for two -- Parisian thoroughfare -- Oblivion -- Dusky 'n' Sandy -- Hallucinations -- The fruit -- A nightingale sang in Berkeley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ POWSummary: Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BORAndrews, Troy
Summary: A Grammy-nominated headliner for the New Orleans Jazz Fest describes his childhood in Tremé and how he came to be a bandleader by age six.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott AndrewsAtria, Travis
Summary: "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020