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Bird Lives!: An Evan Horne Mystery by Bill Moody
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The death of one saxophone player is a tragedy, the murder of several is a jazz session from hell.
The author Bill Moody who is a professional jazz drummer himself, who perfectly blends the music of jazz with mystery in his newest Evan Horne novel "Bird Lives."
Jazz pianist Evan Horne is making a comeback, a car accident prevented...
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| Book Review by Beatrice Richardson |
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Yesterday I Cried by Celebrating The Lessons of Living and Love
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Eventually, the time of action must come.
When this happens, be a winner !
Don't settle for mediocre results.
Don't try to stay even.
Go for it all!
Deng Ming-Dao,in Everyday Tao:
Living with Balance and Harmony
The best selling author Iyanla Vazant is a feisty and charismatic orator but one who has led an extremely difficult life, full of pain and abuse. As...
(Non-Fiction)
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| Book Review by Beatrice Richardson |
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The Standards Real Book In by Various
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THE STANDARDS REAL BOOK is a remarkable collection of great songs of the 20th Century, essentially created by musicians for musicians, and for the listener's enjoyment. Published in the year 2000, this massive 574 page quality spiral book contains some of the most memorable songs of the past century, such "Am I Blue?" "I Got Rhythm," "Dreamsville," "Night and...
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| Book Review by Lee Prosser |
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Swingin' the Dream by Lewis A. Erenberg
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SWINGIN' THE DREAM is about big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture, and it is definitely one of the finest jazz histories written during the past twenty years as it concentrates on the time in American history when jazz was revealed as art music as well as the most popular music of its time for what has...
(Non-Fiction)
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| Book Review by Lee Prosser |
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Jazz: The Ultimate Guide by Ronald Atkins (Editor)
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Jazz: The Ultimate Guide is a very nice showcase of information and photographs. This paperback book is edited by Ronald Atkins, and is 224 pages; it is constructed in easy to locate divisions beginning with a crisp, well-written history of jazz in the Introduction, followed by Evolution of Jazz, Jazz Giants, A - Z Jazz Players, Milestone Recordings, Jazz...
(Non-Fiction)
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| Book Review by Lee Prosser |
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Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz by Marquette Folley- Cooper, Deborah Macanic, Janice McNeil
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Seeing Jazz is an evocative experiment, a place to begin, not the last word. It is not an encyclopedic effort to gather all of the jazz paintings and poems from around the world and across the century of this music's existence. Rather it is a playful attempt to illustrate how this music has made its cross-disciplinary mark.
This book...
(Non-Fiction)
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| Book Review by Beatrice Richardson |
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