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341) Bird
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Franklin "Fin" Ness makes up his mind it tends to stay made. Running, med school, and caring for his healing mother are things Fin never second-guesses. More stubborn than his mind, his heart picked Orion a long time ago. Seeing Orion again proves his heart is still invested, but his temper and fears about their past repeating have Fin wondering if following his heart is worth losing his mind. Musician and drifter Orion Starr expects ghosts at...
343) Sound of metal
Series
Criterion collection volume 1151
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Darius Marder2s Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless dreamers, wild wanderers, and pure gypsy souls that just reading it is a wild adventure. Travel along with a cowboy named Tully Mars, as he heads from Heartache, Wyoming,...
347) #Moonstruck
Author
Series
#Lovestruck novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After pop star Ryan De Luna praises Maisy Harrison's YouTube cover of his classic hit, he offers her and her fledgling band the opportunity of a lifetime: to be his opening act. Music may be Maisy's life but she has one ground rule: never date a musician. That goes double for a heartbreaker like Ryan. If only she didn't feel so vulnerable to his larger-than-life charm. And maybe now more than ever, when he asks for her help to shake off his playboy...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In his page-turning and inspiring first book, legendary songwriter and recording artist Jason Derulo shares his 15 rules for finding success in any pursuit, and invites everyone--especially artists and creators--to start on their path to greatness. In 2009, an 18-year-old son of Haitian immigrants burst onto Billboard music charts with the instant #1 song, "Whatcha Say," which sampled a surprising hook and opened with what would prove to be one of...
355) I sing to use the waiting: a collection of essays about the women singers who've made me who I am
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With remarkable grace, candor, and a poets ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers--from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna--who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice. Structured like a mixtape, Pace juxtaposes their coming out with the music that informed them along the way."--
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of "Uptown" to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of "Paisley Park." But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Here's the book every pop music lover has been waiting for-full of the scandals, addictions, affairs, and tantrums that underscored the life of arguably the world's greatest pop musician. Flamboyant, iconic Elton John is as much part of the American musical landscape as he is in his native England. In the 1970s, when popular music on both sides of the Atlantic fragmented into disco, soul, hard rock, pop, and folk, Elton John embraced them all with...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
An idiosyncratic memoir by the Monkees icon, songwriter, and music video innovator traces his experiences as a wild youth and celebrity before finding peace and creative wholeness through the teachings of Christian Science and his collaborations with like-minded fellow artists.
"Michael Nesmith's eclectic, electric life spans his star-making role on The Monkees, his invention of the music video, and his critical contributions to movies, comedy, and...
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