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Art Blakey
Biographer Leslie Gourse chronicles Blakeyâs colorful life and career, from his hard scrabble childhood in Pittsburgh to his final years as an international jazz icon.
Unforgettable
This exhaustively researched biography of the great pianist and singer Nat King Cole delves into his storied musical career and life.
Wynton Marsalis
The first, full-length biography of this masterful trumpeter, composer, and founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Louis' Children
Louis Armstrong pioneered the jazz vocal. Based on dozens of interviews, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the diverse performers who inherited Satchmo's legacy and made it their own. They are Ethel Waters, Bing Crosby, Bobby McFerrin, Cab Calloway, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Nat "King" Cole, Joe Williams, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett, and many others.
Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk was one of jazz's legendary figures. His life included a long battle with depression and mental illness that finally led to a withdrawal from recording and music-making. This book tells the story of Monk's life, based on interviews with musicians who worked with him.
Madame Jazz
Madame Jazz is a fascinating invitation to the inside world of women in jazz. Ranging primarily from the late 1970s to today's vanguard of performance jazz in New York City and on the West Coast, it chronicles a crucial time of transition as women make the leap from novelty acts regarded as second class citizens to sought-out professionals admired and hired for their consummate musicianship. Author Leslie Gourse surveys the scene in the jazz clubs, the concert halls, the festivals, and the recording studios from the musicians' point of view. She finds both exciting progress and lingering discrimination. The growing success of women instrumentalists has been a long time in coming, she writes....
Sassy
Biography of jazz musician Sarah Vaughan from her childhood to rise in the music business.
Carmen McRae
"By the end of her life Carmen had performed all over the world, recorded over sixty albums, and been recognized with numerous awards and honors. Carmen McRae died on November 10, 1994."--BOOK JACKET.
The Billie Holiday Companion
One of the most troubling, and troubled, artists in the history of jazz, Billie Holiday remains an enigma despite numerous attempts to eulogize, analyze, and criticize her life and career. This new addition to Schirmer's Companion Series provides an objective assessment of "Lady Day's" life, talent, and of her place among the legends of jazz.
Native American Courtship and Marriage Traditions
"Author Leslie Gourse has created a helpful guide for adapting and incorporating traditional Native American marriage customs into today's modern weddings. Descriptions of weddings of the Hopi, Lakota, Iroquois, Oglala, and others provide a historic sense of Native traditions. Book jacket."--Jacket.
