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Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Los Angeles's Central Avenue Jazz

From the late 1910s until the early 1950s, a series of aggressive segregation policies toward Los Angeles's rapidly expanding African American community inadvertently led to one of the most culturally rich avenues in the United States. From Downtown Los Angeles to the largely undeveloped city of Watts to the south, Central Avenue became the center of the West Coast jazz scene, nurturing homegrown talents like Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, and Buddy Collette while also hosting countless touring jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday. Twenty-four hours a day, the sound of live jazz wafted out of nightclubs, restaurants, hotel lobbies, music schools, and anywhere else a jazz combo could squeeze in its instruments for nearly 50 years, helping to advance and define the sound of America's greatest musical contribution.

Statement of Disbursements of the House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1588

Statement of Disbursements of the House

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.

Jazz in the Hill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Jazz in the Hill

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighborhood and created a way of life. Beyond backdrops for remarkable careers, jazz clubs sparked the development of a self-determined African American community. In delving into the history of entrepreneurialism, placemaking, labor organizing, and critical listening in the Hill District, Harper forges connections to larger political contexts, processes of urban development, and civil rights struggles. Harper adopts a broad appr...

Early Jazz Trumpet Legends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Early Jazz Trumpet Legends

Early Jazz Trumpet Legends By: Larry Kemp Early Jazz Trumpet Legends is an examination of the lives and contributions of jazz trumpeters born before 1925. Included are Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry James, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, and Roy Eldridge along with scores of other men and women who created jazz with a trumpet. This is an essential guide for the student of jazz, those interested in history, and those who just like to read entertaining true stories about the most colorful people. Early Jazz Trumpet Legends is the most comprehensive book on the subject. More than 320 trumpeters are discussed. There is a glossary of jazz terminology and a Forward explaining the nature o...

Thom's Dublin and County Street Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1180

Thom's Dublin and County Street Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1983
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Contents: Street list in alphabetical order showing occupants of business and residential premises. Alphabetical list of commercial, professional, government and institutional organisations.

Come Back to Erin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Come Back to Erin

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Bulletin - U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472
The California Legal Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1082

The California Legal Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2228

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2268

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

pt. 1. List of patentees.--pt. 2. Index to subjects of inventions.