Messenger, Bill.
Summary: Presents an overview of jazz, its elements, and its history. Includes performances by various jazz artists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 781.65 MESCourrier, Kevin
Summary: In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 COULassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASRyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAPaul, Alan
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history. The Allman Brothers Band's Brothers and Sisters was not only the band's best-selling album, at over seven million copies sold, but it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc I. Prelude / Schifrin (5:54) -- 'Bout to wail / Gillespie ; arr. by Buster Harding (6:46) -- Umbrella man / Larry Stock ; James Cavanaugh ; Vincent Rose (3:00) -- The chains / Schifrin (9:09) -- Birk's works / Gillespie ; arr. by Ernie Wilkins (4:56) -- Stella by starlight / Victor Young ; Ned Washington (4:05) -- Dizzy's business / Wilkins ; arr. by Wilkins (3:36) -- Autumn leaves /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GILBrotherhood of Breath (Musical group)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fledg'ling Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCGParker, Charlie
Contents: Billie's bounce -- Now's the time -- Ko-ko -- Moose the mooche -- Yardbird suite -- Ornithology -- Night in Tunisia -- Cool blues -- Relaxin' at Camarillo -- Carvin' the bird -- Chasin' the bird -- Bird of paradise -- Embraceable you -- Klactoveedsedstene -- Scrapple from the apple -- My old flame -- Out of nowhere -- Don't blame me -- How deep is the ocean -- Barbados -- Ah-leu-cha -- Parker's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Proper Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PARSummary: Throughout history, musicians and musical works have reflected the fashion, culture, and social attitudes of their times. Music today is more diversified than ever, from the megahits of teen pop stars to the depth and emotionality of gospel choirs to the tones and textures produced by large-scale orchestras. Add to this the unstoppable forces of MySpace, YouTube, the iPod, and a rapidly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: "The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Vaughan, Sarah
Contents: Ave Maria (3:27) -- City called heaven (3:30) -- Deep purple (3:07) -- These things I offer you (2:58) -- Vanity (2:35) -- My reverie (2:33) -- Out o' breath (2:37) -- After hours (2:50) -- Just a moment more (3:19) -- Pinky (2:42) -- I ran all the way home (3:10) -- Miracle happened (3:18) -- Street of dreams (3:01) -- Time to go (2:59) -- Corner to corner (2:58) -- If someone had told me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Classics Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL VAUOwens, R. J.
Summary: "The song "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" is personified, describing the Black history and culture that inspired its creation. Written in 1968 by singer James Brown after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the song became an anthem for the civil rights movement"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OWESummary: With anecdotes and humor, composer Howard Gooddall presents five of the great breakthroughs in European music and what they mean today as classical music is being absorbed into the mainstream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWDeRogatis, Jim.
Summary: "Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BANGS, LESTER DERSummary: Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC EVENordine, Ken.
Contents: Word jazz. What time is it? -- My baby -- Sound museum -- The vidiot -- Roger -- Hunger is from -- Looks like it's going to rain -- Flibberty jib (Fred Katz Group).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real Gone Jazz 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ NORWilson, Joe.
Contents: Let the healing begin / Drew Howard -- 12th St. rag / Euday L. Bowman -- Surfin' gypsies / Joe Wilson -- Crazy arms / Chuck Seals, Ralph Mooney -- Smo-o-o-oth one / Benny Goodman -- End of the line / Bob Wills, Jack Gimble -- Closer walk with thee / traditional -- Midnight ramble / Speedy West -- Lost in the ozone / Billy Farlow -- Library swing / Drew Howard -- Fan it / Frankie Jason, Dan...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earthwork Music 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL WILWilson, Joe.
Contents: The melt -- Big mon -- Green Street -- Spook's waltz -- Slam dunk -- Oh! darling -- Cluck old hen -- Going to California.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earthwork Music 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL WILSummary: In 1994, President Clinton signed a bill which reaffirmed the government to government relationship between the United States and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa. This chronicles the tribe's struggle from the 1836 treaty of Detroit to the 1994 signing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOUWilliams, Jarrett
Summary: "How did a bunch of young people from the inner city create a genre of music that became a global phenomenon? From its humble origins at house parties in the Bronx, where DJs mixed old records to create new sounds, charismatic MCs let their clever lyrics flow, and B-boys and B-girls pioneered inventive dance moves, hip-hop quickly became a musical and cultural revolution." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 782.42 WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J GRAPHIC WILSummary: "From rock's backpages, the online library of rock and roll. Comes this anthology of timeless rock writing from the good to the bad to the plain ugly. The sound and the fury spans four decades and comes at rock and roll from all angles, among the pieces ..."--BOOK JACKET.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Machito.
Contents: Tanga -- Vaya Nina -- Babarabatiri -- Cleopatra rumba (Desert dance) -- Llora timbero -- Carambola -- Oboe mambo (with Mitch Miller, oboe) -- Freezelandia -- Mambo Inn -- Mambo mucho mambo -- Mambo America -- Asia minor -- No me molesto -- Tibiri tabara -- Frenzy -- Oyeme -- Minor rama -- Brazilian soft shoe -- Barbarabae -- Coisa nova -- The Afro-Cuban jazz suite (written, arranged and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Él in association with Cherry Red Records 2016