The Miles Davis Reader
Author: Frank Alkyer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781423430766
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I Walked With Giants
Author: Jimmy Heath
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1439901996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComposer of more than 100 jazz pieces, three-time Grammy nominee, and performer on more than 125 albums, Jimmy Heath has earned a place of honor in the history of jazz. Over his long career, Heath knew many jazz giants such as Charlie Parker and played with other innovators including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and especially Dizzy Gillespie. Heath also won their respect and friendship. In this extraordinary autobiography, the legendary Heath creates a “dialogue” with musicians and family members. As in jazz, where improvisation by one performer prompts another to riff on the same theme, I Walked with Giants juxtaposes Heath’s account of his life and career with recollections from jazz giants about life on the road and making music on the world’s stages. His memories of playing with his equally legendary brothers Percy and Albert (aka “Tootie”) dovetail with their recollections. Heath reminisces about a South Philadelphia home filled with music and a close-knit family that hosted musicians performing in the city’s then thriving jazz scene. Milt Jackson recalls, “I went to their house for dinner...Jimmy’s father put Charlie Parker records on and told everybody that we had to be quiet till dinner because he had Bird on.... When I [went] to Philly, I’d always go to their house.” Today Heath performs, composes, and works as a music educator and arranger. By turns funny, poignant, and extremely candid, Heath’s story captures the rhythms of a life in jazz.
We Want Miles
Author: Franck Bergerot
Publisher: Skira
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780847835287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive book on the artist to date, offering an insightful look into the legendary musician and his enormous impact on the development of jazz. Miles Davis explores the life and art of one of the greatest visionaries in jazz history—through photographs, handwritten musical scores, album covers, posters, and more—cementing his reputation as the embodiment of cool, both on- and offstage. To examine his extraordinary career is also to examine the history of jazz from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s, as Davis was crucial in almost every important innovation and stylistic development during that time. His genius paved the way for these changes, both with his own performances and recordings, and by choosing collaborators with whom he forged new directions. Miles Davis—trumpeter, bandleader, and composer—was one of the most important figures in jazz history. He was born in a well-to-do family in St. Louis in 1926 and died in a Los Angeles hospital in 1991. He was at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, and fusion. Davis worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, including Ron Carter, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Charlie Parker, and Max Roach, among numerous others.
Ray Charles
Author: Michael Lydon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Universally hailed as the definitive biography since its original publication, this new edition brings Charles's life up to date, covering the last decade of his life. It is must reading for any fan of American music and the unique career of one of its greatest stars."--Jacket.
Late, a Cowboy Song
Author: Sarah Ruhl
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780573702952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis play is for all the lady cowboys of heart and mind who ride outside the city limits of convention. Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy outside the city limits of Pittsburgh who teaches her how to ride a horse. Mary's husband, Crick, buys a painting with the last of their savings. Mary and Crick have a baby, but they can't decide on the baby's name, or the baby's gender. A story of one woman's education and her search to find true love outside the box.
Nowhere to Run
Author: Gerri Hirshey
Publisher: Southbank Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781904915102
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Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon Baumann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0691187282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
Author: Sarah Ruhl
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 0573706549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp, Pip, in Jane’s office. When they invite Pip and her two male partners, discussion turns to action and the exploration of unexplored desire turns animalistic, and then Jane’s daughter sees it all. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage blurs the lines of monogamy and asks how deeply friends, lovers and strangers connect.
Amy and the Orphans
Author: Lindsey Ferrentino
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0573707391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen their eighty-five-year-old father dies, sparring siblings Maggie and Jake must face a question: How to break the bad news to their sister Amy, who has Down syndrome and has lived in a state home for years? Along the way, the pair find out just how much they don’t know about their family and each other. It seems only Amy knows who she really is.
Shear Spirit
Author: Joan Tapper
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780307394033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart coffee-table book, part inspirational work, and part pattern guide, Shear Spirit connects knitters to the yarn-producing community in a new and intimate way. Filled with stunning photographs, fascinating essays and heartwarming profiles, this book follows the writer and photographer to 10 fibre farms and ranches across America - from the Willamette Valley of Oregon to the coast of Maine-capturing the essence of the people, places and animals that, together, create yarn. 20 projects featuring yarns from the farms surveyed will inspire knitters everywhere.
