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 JAZSummary: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, aka "Jazz Fest," is the signature annual music and cultural event of the city and has been called America's greatest festival. Celebrating the music, food, and arts and crafts of all of Louisiana since 1970, Jazz Fest is an essential showcase of the rich heritage of the region, and hundreds of thousands attend the event each year....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JAZNew 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
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWSummary: 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 TRATrombone Shorty
Summary: Trombone Shorty's latest album captures the spirit and essence of the Big Easy while redefining its sound. It blazes through a mix of '70s funk, rock, hip-hop, and R&B.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TROSummary: 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 NEWProfessor 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 PROContents: 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.Heitger, Duke.
Contents: Roll on, Mississippi--Just gone--Float me down the river--Steamboat stomp--I'm sorry I made you cry--Riverside blues--I've been floating down the Old Green River--Hesitation blues--Loading up the Mandy Lee--Tia Juana--That's a-plenty--St. Louis shuffle--Basin St. Blues--California, here I come--Muskrat ramble--A kiss to build a dream on--Hindustan--When the saints go marching in
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GHB Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HEIDr. John.
Summary: A collection of songs by and associated with Louis Armstrong.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DR.Professor Longhair
Contents: In the night (2:23) -- Tipitina (2:40) ; (2:29) -- Ball the wall (3:09) -- Who's been fooling you (2:03) -- Hey now baby (2:47) -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans (2:54) -- She walks right in (3:09) -- Hey little girl (2:52) -- Willie Mae (2:38) -- Walk your blues away (2:46) -- Professor Longhair blues (2:19) -- Boogie woogie (2:31) -- Longhair's blues-rhumba (3:02) -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PROGushee, Lawrence.
Contents: Dramatis personae -- Before the beginning -- The first season -- The second season -- The third season -- The final season -- Life and music after the band.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 GUSFulmer, David.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FulContents: CD A. Original Tuxedo rag ; Careless love ; Black rag (Original Tuxedo Jazz Band) ; I'm satisfied you love me ; My Josephine ; Station calls ; Station calls ; Give me some more ; Dear Almanzoer ; Papa's got the jim-jams ; As you like it ; Just for you, dear, I'm crying ; Just for you, dear, I'm crying ; When I'm with you ; It's a jam up ; The sweetheart of the TKO ; Ta ta Daddy (Celestin's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BREBo, Eddie
Contents: A shoot from the root -- Groove in my soul -- Dance, dance, dance -- Every dog's got a day -- O' lady -- Kick it on back -- Will I ever learn -- Fingers -- Bring it on home -- I love you in every way -- Old fashioned sookie -- Let's get it straight -- The anchor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BOKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIAndrews, Troy
Summary: After letting his band down by missing rehearsal, Shorty has some serious questions about what it means to be a leader so he hits the New Orleans streets to find some answers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDSummary: Features music from the first season of the HBO series Treme, the hit show about a New Orleans neighborhood of musicians, chefs, and ordinary New Orleanians who rebuild their lives, homes, and unique culture after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TREAndrews, Troy
Summary: A Grammy-nominated headliner for the New Orleans Jazz Fest describes his childhood in Tremé and how he came to be a bandleader by age six.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JEN Caldecott AndrewsSummary: This Universal newsreel focuses on "trumpet diplomacy" in the former Belgian Congo. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong arrives in Congo on a U.S. State Department goodwill mission. Criticized by Moscow but warmly welcomed by the Congolese, he plays New Orleans jazz.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Brown, Jericho
Summary: "Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown;s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROSummary: This outstanding program traces the life of Tennessee Williams, revisiting the locations in the southern states that were his inspiration. Scenes from Williams' most memorable works, including The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, evoke the atmosphere, characters, and conflicts of the Deep South, while footage of a rare television interview and a dramatic reenactment of the life of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Turner, 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 BRIBridges, 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