Contents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZMagoon, Kekla
Summary: "A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRIContents: Gossip (Cyril Neville) (2:35) -- If it's good to you (it's good for you) (Eddie Bo) (2:29) -- Right place, wrong time (Ray J.) (2:55) -- Chicken strut (The Meters) (2:45) -- Tequila (Allen Toussaint) (3:11) -- Hot Tamales (The Prime Mates) (2:37) -- Show it (Betty Harris) (2:55) -- Four corners (Lee Dorsey) (2:51) -- You keep me hangin on (Bonnie and Sheila) (2:42) -- Yeah you're right, you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWBo, Eddie.
Contents: Baby -- We like mambo -- I found a little girl -- Something you got -- Gotta have more -- Fallin' in love again -- S.G.B. -- Souling -- Whats good to you : pt. 1 -- The la la man : pt. 1 -- Boogaloo mardi gras : pt. 1 -- Horse with a freeze : pt. 1 -- Timber : pts 1 & 2 -- Can I be your main squeeze -- I'm a carpenter : pt. 1 -- Garden of our trees -- Reborn -- Lover & friend -- Live it up --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vampisoul Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BOSummary: 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 TRATurner, Myra Faye
Summary: "When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges and her mother went to William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960, they arrived to find an angry crowd of white people shouting racist insults. For her safety, Ruby had to be escorted to school every day by U.S. Marshals. But despite the hateful attitudes of others, Ruby didn't miss a single day of school that year. Discover the incredible bravery of one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRIFeehan, Christine
Summary: "From a tough stint in the armed forces to stalking the unknown as a bayou cop, leopard shifter Remy Boudreaux has been served well by his uncanny gifts. And right now, New Orleans could use a homicide detective like Remy. A serial killer is loose, snatching victims from the French Quarter with pitiless rage and unnatural efficiency. But something else is drawing Remy into the twilight--a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEEWohl, Kit.
Summary: Stories about the restaurant's history and l60 recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURMitchell, Brian K.
Summary: "Depicted as a graphic history and informed by newly discovered primary sources and years of archival research, Monumental resurrects, in vivid detail, Louisiana and New Orleans after the Civil War, and an iconic American life that never should have been forgotten. The graphic history is supplemented with personal and historiographical essays as well as a map, timeline, and endnotes that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Historic New Orleans Collection 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.305 MITBridges, Ruby
Summary: "When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRIContents: Bouncin' the boogie (1:56) (Royal Kings) -- Got a brand new baby (2:16) ; 4 o'clock blues (2:41) (Little Mr. Midnight with Paul Gayten Band) -- Restless heart (2:33) ; Ain't it a shame (2:40) (Lloyd Price) -- Say baby (2:14) ; That night (2:37) (Willie Johnson) -- Eating and sleeping (Earl King) (2:14) -- Heavy sugar (Lloyd Lambert Band) (2:50 -- Think it over (Guitar Slim) (2:28) -- So glad...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Specialty Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CREProfessor Longhair
Contents: Mardi Gras in New Orleans -- Rum & Coca Cola -- I've got my mojo working -- Gone so long -- Whole lotta lovin' -- After hours -- Ball the wall ; aka, 501 boogie -- Medley: Good rockin' tonight/Shake rattle & roll/Sick & tired / Roberta -- Bald head -- Hey little girl -- Stack-o-lee -- Go ahead and cry -- Her mind is gone -- Don't you feel like cryin' -- Introduction by James Booker -- Gone so...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Night Train International 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PRORibke, Simone T.
Summary: A biography on Ruby Bridges and how she stood up against racism and hatred to help integrate Louisiana's school system.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRIAlvarado, Denise
Summary: "New Orleans has long been America's most magical city, inhabited by a fascinating visible and invisible world, full of mysteries, known for its decadence and haunted by its spirits. If Salem is famous for its persecution of witches, New Orleans is celebrated for its embrace of the magical, mystical, and paranormal. New Orleans is the historical stronghold of traditional African religions,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 ALVBartholomew, Dave
Contents: Disc 1. Ain't gonna do it / (Dave Bartholomew) -- Don't marry too soon / (Jewel King) -- Shrewsbury blues / (Tommy Ridgely) -- Stack-a-lee / (Archibald) -- The blues jumped over the rabbit / (Joe Turner) -- Blow your top / (Rodney Harris & Dave Bartholomew) -- 3 x 7 = 21 / (Jewel King) -- Little girl sing ding a ling / (Dave Bartholomew) -- I'm gone / (Shirley & Lee) -- Pony tail / (T-Bone...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BARNelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Summary: "A powerful true story about three Black girls who courageously integrated a New Orleans school on November 14, 1960, told by award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 379.2 NELBarnes, Rodney
Summary: When meteors fell to Earth Quinton West was gifted with the power of invulnerability. Seeing others take up hero identities, Quinton decided to help his city of New Orleans in his own way. Using his smarts, creativity and a bit of training from his mentor Glow, Quinton is on his way to becoming Quincredible, hero of New Orleans! But even superheroes must do homework, and Quinton's newest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BARSummary: New Orleans developed a unique funk sound. Many slaves were brought from Haiti and brought with them the religion of Voodoo and its drums and music. Jazz funeral marching bands were solemn brass bands accompanying a coffin and would, on burial, be joined by a second line of drummers and dancers which would turn the event into a celebration of the spirit cutting free from earth. The backline...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWMessner, Kate
Summary: When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESContents: CD 1. Tiger rag (Bix Beiderbecke with The Wolverines) -- Mississippi mud (Bix Beiderbecke with Paul Whiteman & his orchestra) -- Sweet Georgia Brown (Jimmie Noone & his New Orleans Band) -- Clambake in B flat (Capitol Jazz Band) -- Sugar foot stomp (Kid Ory & his Creole Jazz Band) -- Yes! I'm in the barrel (Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five) -- Gatemouth (New Orleans Wanderers) -- When Erastus...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Music 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Malye, Julia
Summary: "For fans of sweeping historical literature in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son or Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, an extraordinary US literary debut set in Paris and colonial New Orleans and based on a true story, about three of the 88 young women-among them an orphan, a madwoman, and an abortionist-who were deported to the Louisiana Territory as brides"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOINew Orleans Suspects (Musical group)
Contents: Get back what you given -- Cigarette smile -- Magdalena -- Pocketful of grits -- Soothe me -- Things (In your mind) -- Hoodoos and cunyans -- Carnivale -- Walk of shame -- Yo flambeaux!
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana Red Hot Records 2014