Questlove
Summary: "Questlove is best known for his achievements in the music world, but his interest in food runs a close second. He has hosted a series of renowned Food Salons and conversations with some of America's most prominent chefs. Now he is turning his hand to creating a cookbook. In Mixtape Potluck Cookbook, Questlove imagines the ultimate potluck dinner party, inviting more than fifty chefs,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 QUEQuestlove
Summary: Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 782.42 QUEQuestlove
Summary: Questlove--musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore--shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life. In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he's heard from the many creators and collaborators in his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 QUEQuestlove
Summary: The drummer for the Grammy Award-winning group "The Roots" discusses his life as well as hip hop, music criticism, and celebrities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUESTLOVE QUEQuestlove
Summary: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUESTLOVE QUEQuestlove
Summary: Seventh grader Rahim Reynolds loves testing out the gadgets invented by his brilliant friend Kasia Collins. First there were the X-ray glasses and all the trouble they caused. Now there's the new cell phone she built for his birthday, even though his parents won't let him have one. But Rahim is excited to use the phone to search for videos of his favorite old-school rap group. What he doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC QUEContents: Born under punches (The heat goes on) (3:50) -- Crosseyed and painless/Lady (5:29) -- The great curve / (featuring Blood Orange) (4:08) -- Once in a lifetime (5:49) -- Houses in motion / (featuring Tony Allen) (4:33) -- Seen and not seen (3:04) -- Listening wind / (featuring Ezra Koenig) (6:02) -- The overload (3:29) -- The great curve (bonus version) / (featuring Alicia Keys, Questlove, and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT KIDBrownMark
Summary: "Prince's bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNMARK BROSummary: Recounts how, on the streets of the Bronx in the summer of 1973, DJ Herc took the percussion breaks from an obscure album by the Incredible Bongo Band and extended them by playing them back to back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAMStone, Sly
Summary: "As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s ('Everyday People,' 'Family Affair'), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone’s influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AUWA Books, MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STONE, SLY STOSummary: Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC EVEKamp, David
Summary: "In 1970, in soundstage on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of men and women of various ages and races met to finish the first season of a children's TV program. They had identified a social problem: poor children were entering kindergarten without the learning skills of their middle-class counterparts. They hoped, too, that they had identified a solution: to use television to better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 KAMRock, Chris
Summary: When a comedian, having become a reality TV star at the hands of his fiancée, allows a newspaper profile writer follow him around for a day, he explores the issues in his life and learns about the writer's life as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOPSummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMSummary: DVD: A feature documentary about Stones Throw Records. The film includes concert footage, archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs as well as in-depth interviews with Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Common, Questlove, Talib Kweli, Mike D, Tyler The Creator and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC OURSummary: Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021