Orgill, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARMSeeger, Pete
Summary: Lee, a jazz pianist, has to leave his band when he begins losing his hearing, but he meets a deaf saxophone player in a sign language class and together they form a snazzy new band.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEEArmstrong, Louis
Summary: One of the world's best-loved performers, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, headlines this exclusive concert, performed and shot in Australia circa 1964. A five-piece band comprised of Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, Danny Barcelona, Trummy Young and Joe Darensbourg, backs up Armstrong, while singer Jewel Brown lends added vocal support. Selections include: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco, " "Sweet Georgia...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LOUSummary: 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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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CLASummary: A biographical look at Charlie Christian, an influential jazz guitarist. Includes remembrances from various friends and musicians and performances by Benny Garcia, Eldon Shamblin, Billy Dozier, Herb Ellis and various other musicians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vestapol 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CHAWolff, Michael
Summary: "From Tourette's to triumph. From cancer to cure. From the segregated south to commanding stages around the world. Jazz master, Michael Wolff's journey begins with pure grit and ends in perfect victory. On that note is more than a memoir. It is like a jazz score with words, taking the reader on the wild journey of Wolff's singular life, on edriven by a passion for music and for being alive....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WolffSummary: 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 TRAPowell, Bud.
Contents: Tempus fugue-it -- Celia -- Cherokee -- I'll keep loving you -- Strictly confidential -- All God's chillun got rhythm -- So sorry please -- Get happy -- Sometimes I'm happy -- Sweet Georgia Brown -- Yesterdays -- April in Paris -- Body and soul -- Hallelujah! -- Tea for two -- Parisian thoroughfare -- Oblivion -- Dusky 'n' Sandy -- Hallucinations -- The fruit -- A nightingale sang in Berkeley...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ POWMcPartland, Marian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 785.42 MCPContents: 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 GARSummary: Episode 1. Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAZMingus, Charles
Contents: Dizzy moods / C. Mingus, D. Gillespie -- Ysabel's table dance -- Tijuana gift shop -- Los mariachis = The street musicians -- Flamingo / E. Anderson, T. Grouya.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bluebird 1986
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MINContents: Introduction -- Lost my love -- Creative musicians -- Joy road -- Face at my window -- Root in 7-4 plus -- Inside ourselves -- Beyond the dream -- Saturday night special -- Orotunds -- Scorpio's child -- Loser.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JAZContents: 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 JAZSummary: The group's four musicians use percussion, keyboards, soprano sax, viola and other instruments to mix experimental Jazz with the Eastern sounds of Noh and Balinese Theatre.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ENTHill, Andrew
Summary: Andrew Hill brings some of the best musicians of the postbop era to the evolution of jazz music by pushing structure and harmony into different places.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999