Contents: CD 1, The complete concert by the sea. Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (:40) ; Night and day (5:04) ; Spring is here (5:14) ; I'll remember April (4:23) ; The nearness of you (4:46) ; Where or when (3:22) ; Sweet and lovely (4:12) ; Lullaby of Birdland (4:17) ; Mambo Carmel (3:52) ; Teach me tonight (3:48) ; Will you still be mine (3:56) ; I cover the waterfront (3:30) ; Bernie's tune (4:38) ; How could...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GARMassarutto, 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 MASTick, Judith
Summary: A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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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 RUSAvery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVERandall, Alice
Summary: "Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing/Atria 2024
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Summary: Documents the career of jazz pianist Art Tatum through interviews, rare footage, and photographs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ARTSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC RONDillon, Leo.
Summary: Synopsis: If you have ever been lucky enough to hear great jazz, then you will understand the pure magic of this book. Leo and Diane Dillon use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. From Miles Davis and Charlie Parker to Ella Fitzgerald, here is a dream team sure to knock your socks off. Learn about this popular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sky Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DILOrgill, 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: Clark Terry, an internationally renowned trumpeter, began his career in the 1940's. He has worked with legendary greats such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington. His love of music even crossed over into the education field and is a noted author of books on trumpet techniques.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A PBS miniseries in which a black jazz band becomes a huge success and ends up entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACHarris, Duchess.
Summary: Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer and activist. Her music helped shape the civil rights movement and inspired many people. Aretha Franklin: Legendary Singer explores her life and legacy. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN HARSummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This film profiles Chester Burnett, better known as the Howlin' Wolf. It includes an incredible compendium of never-before-seen footage of the Howlin' Wolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sea Productions 2003
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HOWTinsley, Justin
Summary: "The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of the 1990s. Born Christopher Wallace and raised in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, Biggie lived an almost archetypal rap life: young trouble, drug dealing, guns, prison, a giant hit record, the wealth and international superstardom that came with it, then an early violent death. Biggie released his first record, Ready...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMALLS, BIGGIE TINSmith, Charles R.
Summary: "The story of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's career told in verse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HENCrouch, Stanley.
Summary: "Carla is a talented jazz singer nearing forty. Maxwell is a renowned tenor saxophonist, the man Carla deeply loves and wants to marry. But Maxwell, who is black, finds himself increasingly at odds with the notion of lifelong togetherness with a white woman, as he yields to group pressure. While they are visiting his parents (whom Carla hopes to win over in her struggle to keep Maxwell in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRODillard, J.
Summary: J.D. the Kid Barber has already won a barber battle and appeared on local TV. Now he's the youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DILZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022