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Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
2) New Orleans
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., b&w, 4 3/4 in.
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Nick, the proprietor of a Bourbon Street gambling joint, an artistic haven for African-American musicians who gather and jam from dusk til dawn, falls in love with an opera-singing socialite. After losing his nightclub Nick tries over the course of many years to get jazz the respect and audience it deserves.
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"Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at school, Madeleine doggedly searches for Philadelphia's...
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Criterion collection volume 1122
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Bud Powell and Francis Paudras, tells the story of the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan.
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Reelin' In the Years
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 DVD (62 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
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Thelonious Monk revolutionized jazz with his innovative musical approach and these performances, filmed in Norway and Denmark in 1966, allow viewers the rare opportunity to experience Monk's genius up close.
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"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
10) Ella Fitzgerald
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Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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Presents information about Ella Fitzgerald, from her youth mired in tragedy to her rise to stardom as one of the top jazz singers of all time.
11) Mary's idea
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HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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At the age of three, Mary Lou Williams taught herself how to play the piano. At the age of fifteen, she was considered a professional. An American jazz pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams wrote hundreds of compositions, recorded hundreds of songs, and wrote arrangements for musicians, including Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. Mary’s Idea is an exquisite picture book about Mary Lou Williams, an artist often overlooked in the canon of American...
13) Django
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Born into a traveling gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the "Gypsy Genius" and "Prodigy Boy," but one day his world changed completely when a fire claimed the use of his fretting hand. Folks said Django would never play again, but with passion and perseverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze.
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
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244 pages ; 25 cm
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The son of a grieving Jewish family in jazz age Chicago impresses patrons of a mob-controlled saloon with his piano talents, which become subject to a changing music era, his need to survive, and exacting mob demands.
16) King of jazz
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Long available only in incomplete form, this film appears here newly restored to its original glory, offering a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s.
17) Song of Lahore
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 2004, Izzat Majeed founded Sachal Studios to create a space for traditional music in a nation that had rejected its musical roots. After convincing a number of master musicians to pick up their instruments again, they quietly released some classical and folk albums, but it was an experimental album fusing jazz and South Asian instruments that brought Sachal Studios worldwide acclaim. Their rendition of Dave Brubeck's Take five became a sensation,...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
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"An ensemble-cast novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, following a jazz musician and the multiple women-some charmed by him, others scorned-who find the power of their own voices in this thrilling debut It's 2013, and Circus Palmer, aforty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies man, lives for his music, and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami, he learns that the woman who is secretly closest to his...
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Eagle Vision
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD.
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A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the High Priestess of Soul. This includes a bonus CD of her works which features the classics I Loves You Porgy; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; I Put a Spell on You; and many more.
20) Django
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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A powerful biopic focusing on the life of legendary Romani jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
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