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Author
Publisher
Lever Press
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
"As jazz enters its second century it is reasserting itself as dynamic and relevant. Boston Globe jazz writer and Emerson College professor William Beutter reveals new ways in which jazz is engaging with society through the vivid biographies and music of Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, The Bad Plus, Miguel Zenón, Anat Cohen, Robert Glasper, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Julian Lage, and Esperanza Spalding. These musicians are freely...
Author
Publisher
Bright Connections Media, a World Book Encyclopedia company
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : illustrations, color ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"J is for Jazz is a riotous romp through the alphabet featuring the history and living creativity of this special music!" --
10) Louis Armstrong
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
2008 edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A short biography of Louis Armstrong, the famous jazz musician and trumpet player who helped make jazz one of the world's most popular types of music.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of the talented jazz composer, bandleader, and pianist, from his childhood in Washington, D.C., through his battle against racism, to his influence on the world of jazz.
15) Mary's idea
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Mary Lou Williams, an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote hundreds of compositions, recorded hundreds of songs, and wrote arrangements for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and is an artist often overlooked in the canon of American music because of her gender and skin color"--
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and,...
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