Author: Lee Collins
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Surveys the jazz trumpeter's career from the formative years of jazz in New Orleans, through his club successes in Chicago after 1930, to his last European tour in 1954.
Oh, Didn't He Ramble
Author: Lee Collins
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Surveys the jazz trumpeter's career from the formative years of jazz in New Orleans, through his club successes in Chicago after 1930, to his last European tour in 1954.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Surveys the jazz trumpeter's career from the formative years of jazz in New Orleans, through his club successes in Chicago after 1930, to his last European tour in 1954.
A Son's Return
Author: Sterling A. Brown
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555532758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Essays on African-American politics, literature and music by Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989), which point out the biases against black Americans in white cultural expression and argue for a recognition of the cultural contributions of African Americans.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555532758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Essays on African-American politics, literature and music by Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989), which point out the biases against black Americans in white cultural expression and argue for a recognition of the cultural contributions of African Americans.
Reflections on American Music
Author: College Music Society
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576470701
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Wright -- "A closed fist" from Spirals (for violin, viola, and cello) / Judith Lang Zaimont.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576470701
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Wright -- "A closed fist" from Spirals (for violin, viola, and cello) / Judith Lang Zaimont.
The Unseen Hand
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307560910
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved Splits, 4-H Club.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307560910
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved Splits, 4-H Club.
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down
Author: Marcia Muller
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 0446561606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
P.I. Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and needs all the clients she can get - even a shady character from her Berkeley days. From the moment T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon whisks her off in his private helicopter, complaining of death threats, her life will never be the same....
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 0446561606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
P.I. Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and needs all the clients she can get - even a shady character from her Berkeley days. From the moment T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon whisks her off in his private helicopter, complaining of death threats, her life will never be the same....
Arkansas Mischief
Author: Jim McDougal
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1627797548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Until his recent death in federal prison, Jim McDougal was the irrepressible ghost of the Clintons' Arkansas past. As Bill Clinton's political and business mentor, McDougal - with his knowledge of embarrassing real estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice - has long haunted the White House. Jim McDougal's vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death and coauthored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, takes on the rich particularity of character and plot to reveal the hidden intersections of politics and special interests in Arkansas and the betrayals that followed. It is the story of how ambitious men and women climbed out of rural obscurity and "how friendships break down and lives are ruined."
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 1627797548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Until his recent death in federal prison, Jim McDougal was the irrepressible ghost of the Clintons' Arkansas past. As Bill Clinton's political and business mentor, McDougal - with his knowledge of embarrassing real estate and banking deals, bribes, and obstructions of justice - has long haunted the White House. Jim McDougal's vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death and coauthored by veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie, takes on the rich particularity of character and plot to reveal the hidden intersections of politics and special interests in Arkansas and the betrayals that followed. It is the story of how ambitious men and women climbed out of rural obscurity and "how friendships break down and lives are ruined."
Fifteen One-Act Plays
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345802772
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0345802772
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume: Ages of the Moon Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley Short Life of Trouble The Unseen Hand The Rock Garden Chicago Icarus’s Mother 4H Club Fourteen Hundred Thousand Red Cross Cowboys #2 Forensic & The Navigators The Holy Ghostly Back Bog Beast Bait Killer’s Head
The Museum at the End of the World
Author: John Metcalf
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms of comedy throughout, author John Metcalf paints a portrait of 20th century literary life with levity, satire, and unsuspecting moments of emotional depth.
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms of comedy throughout, author John Metcalf paints a portrait of 20th century literary life with levity, satire, and unsuspecting moments of emotional depth.
Telling It Like It Is
Author: Joe Darensbourg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349087300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The autobiography of one of the foremost jazz clarinetists who is well known for his recordings with Edward 'Kid' Ory and the Louis Armstrong All Stars. Darensbourg was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1906 and heard many early New Orleans jazz bands as a young boy. For most of his life he lived on the West Coast and the book is a first-rate reference source for students of jazz and popular music in the urban centres of Seattle and Los Angeles.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349087300
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The autobiography of one of the foremost jazz clarinetists who is well known for his recordings with Edward 'Kid' Ory and the Louis Armstrong All Stars. Darensbourg was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1906 and heard many early New Orleans jazz bands as a young boy. For most of his life he lived on the West Coast and the book is a first-rate reference source for students of jazz and popular music in the urban centres of Seattle and Los Angeles.
Chicago Commerce
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Languages : en
Pages : 1864
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