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Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Louis Armstrong, also known as Satchmo and Pops, became an American jazz legend in the 1920s. His voice and skill with instruments helped him become a popular musician in a time where America was racially divided. Watch as this skilled musician learns to play, buys his first instrument, and becomes one of the best music makers of the era.
4) Jazz icons
Publisher
Reelin' in the Years Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Jazz Icons is an ongoing DVD series featuring full-length concerts and in-studio performances by the greatest legends of jazz, filmed all over the world from the 1950s thorugh the 1970s"--Container of Chet Baker disc.
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Language
English
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Description
"Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now...
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Language
English
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Description
From award-winning NPR producer Joe Bevilacqua comes a rare and exciting collection of radio documentaries, features, and dramas. One Song at a Time This radio performance includes many stories about the Kerrville Folk Festival, the longest continuously running music festival in North America. Lady Bird Johnson One of the most licensed audio books on the Public Radio Exchange and iTunes, Lady Bird Johnson is an award-winning audio documentary...
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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"HANDLE The definitive, investigative biography of jazz legend Dave Brubeck ("Take Five") DESCRIPTION In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of ten days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview with the bandleader. Brubeck opened up as never before, disclosing his unique approach to jazz; the heady days of his "classic"...
Publisher
WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Spanning New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Hollywood and Europe and over 70 years of musical innovation, this biography is the rags to riches chronicle of jazz legend Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong; Armstrong was the first, and greatest "hipster" of his time and at the center of his appeal was his trumpet playing; among numerous other credits, Armstrong pioneered the musical idea of Swing, secured Jazz in American popular culture and charmed the world with...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, this documentary features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cornetist/pianist/composer Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz's man who got away - the James Dean, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain of his day. Born in Davenport, Iowa into an upper-middle-class family, Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing amazing new energy and unprecedented maturity to the music and influencing generations of musicians. After a bout battling alcoholism, Bix died in Sunnyside, Queens on August 6,...
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Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
A good night for ghosts: Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz." -- Leprechaun in late witer: Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.