Summary: 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,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRAEnglish, T. J.
Summary: "From T.J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 ENGContents: Basics -- Explanation and examples of terms and abbreviations used in analysis section -- More concepts -- Advanced analysis -- Analysis of transcribed Charlie Christian solos -- The transcribed solos. Rose room ; Honeysuckle rose ; I'm confessin' ; Good morning blues ; Oh, lady be good ; Way down yonder in New Orleans ; Pagin' the devil ; I got rhythm ; Tea for two ; Untitled tune ; The sheik...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Bay 2005
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Summary: "Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021