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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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 ONDMorris, Mary
Summary: "In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a saloon, lost three of their boys on the SS Eastland when it sank in 1915. Each family holds out hope that one of their remaining children will rise to carry on the family business. But Benny Lehrman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morris 2015Kelly, Julia
Summary: "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELSummary: When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEXDyer, Geoff.
Summary: Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the giants of jazz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYECrouch, 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 CROKinsey, T. E. (Tim E.)
Summary: "Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz. London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, Jazz Musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a surprising turn. Superintendent Sunderland has had word that a deserter who stole a fortune in diamonds as he fled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime/Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELFarmer, Jerrilyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARMoody, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCalmenson, Stephanie.
Summary: When a mouse scurries into a house and starts to play jazz music, other animals join in, one by one, each using his or her own particular talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CalmeWarrell, 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 WARSummary: Jazz musician Danny Parker becomes a drifter among the drug dealers and criminals of Los Angeles after the murder of his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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Summary: A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time. But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: ""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONEdugyan, Esi.
Summary: "Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDUMorris, Mary
Summary: The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMahin, Michael James.
Summary: "The fictionalized story about a group of starving, homeless kids in 1890s New Orleans who made their own instruments and started a band that historians now consider an important step in the development of jazz"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAHFluke, Joanne
Summary: The tour bus carrying the Cinnamon Roll Six overturns, sending the band members to the hospital--and the keyboard player to a bizarre and untimely death. Soon Hannah discovers the victim's surprising secret--and becomes determined to bring the killer to justice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Fluke 2012Kellerman, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS KELFulmer, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FulHare, Louise
Summary: "A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Summary: Acoustic Rooster forms a jazz band with Duck Ellington, Bee Holliday, and Pepe Ernesto Cruz to compete in the annual Barnyard Talent Show against such greats as Thelonius Monkey, Mules Davis, and Ella Finchgerald. Includes glossary, notes on the characters and songs, and jazz timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2011