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THE BASS SAXOPHONE
Written by Josef Skvorecky
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $14.99
The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophonebrilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas.
In Emoke, which is set in the shadow of the... Read more >
Written by Josef Skvorecky
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $14.99
The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophonebrilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas.
In Emoke, which is set in the shadow of the... Read more >
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The Baroness
The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.95
The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $26.95
Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her...
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The Baroness
The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
Written by Hannah Rothschild
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her...
Read more >
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hardcover.
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Tiger Rag
A Novel
Written by Nicholas Christopher
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $26.00
The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.
New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Nicholas Christopher
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $26.00
The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.
New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of... Read more >
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eBook.
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Tiger Rag
A Novel
Written by Nicholas Christopher
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $12.99
The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.
New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Nicholas Christopher
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $12.99
The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.
New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Young Man with a Horn
Written by Dorothy Baker
Afterword by Gary Giddins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $14.95
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of... Read more >
Written by Dorothy Baker
Afterword by Gary Giddins
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $14.95
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Young Man with a Horn
Written by Dorothy Baker
Afterword by Gary Giddins
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $14.95
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of... Read more >
Written by Dorothy Baker
Afterword by Gary Giddins
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $14.95
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Bandbox
A Novel
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $13.99
From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.
Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe&rdquo... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $13.99
From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age.
Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to gangland murder. Edited by the bombastic Jehoshaphat “Joe&rdquo... Read more >
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Space Is the Place
The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Written by John F. Szwed
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
Always riveting, Space Is the Place is the definitive biography of "one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz" (The New York Times)—unparalleled for his purposeful outlandishness, a man who exerted a powerful influence over a vast array of artists.
Sun Ra—a/k/a Herman Poole "Sonny Blount—was born in Alabama on May... Read more >
The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Written by John F. Szwed
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
Always riveting, Space Is the Place is the definitive biography of "one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz" (The New York Times)—unparalleled for his purposeful outlandishness, a man who exerted a powerful influence over a vast array of artists.
Sun Ra—a/k/a Herman Poole "Sonny Blount—was born in Alabama on May... Read more >
Chasin the Trane
Written by J.C. Thomas
Format: eBook, 252 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $14.99
He was always elusive, on and off the stand; like his music, he was constantly moving, incessantly changing. Just as Charlie Parker stood astride the jazz world of the late 40s and 50s, so did John Coltrane in the late 50s and 60s.
Trane was a giant of the saxophone and... Read more >
Written by J.C. Thomas
Format: eBook, 252 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2012
Price: $14.99
He was always elusive, on and off the stand; like his music, he was constantly moving, incessantly changing. Just as Charlie Parker stood astride the jazz world of the late 40s and 50s, so did John Coltrane in the late 50s and 60s.
Trane was a giant of the saxophone and... Read more >
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The Jazz Loft Project
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Written by Sam Stephenson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $24.99
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets)... Read more >
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Written by Sam Stephenson
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $24.99
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets)... Read more >
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Magician of the Modern
Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America
Written by Eugene R. Gaddis
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $22.99
The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural... Read more >
Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America
Written by Eugene R. Gaddis
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2011
Price: $22.99
The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural... Read more >
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The New Face of Jazz
An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow
Written by Cicily Janus
Photographed by Ned Radinsky
Foreword by Marcus Miller
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $18.99
Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this... Read more >
An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow
Written by Cicily Janus
Photographed by Ned Radinsky
Foreword by Marcus Miller
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $18.99
Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this... Read more >
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The Jazz Loft Project
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Written by Sam Stephenson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $40.00
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets)... Read more >
Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Written by Sam Stephenson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $40.00
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world—his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York—to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets)... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Moving to Higher Ground
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00
In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding... Read more >
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00
In this beautiful book, Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to higher ground. With wit and candor he demystifies the music that is the birthright of every American and demonstrates how a real understanding... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Living with Jazz
A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer
Written by Dan Morgenstern
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $19.99
A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and... Read more >
A reader edited by Sheldon Meyer
Written by Dan Morgenstern
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $19.99
A collection of essays, biographical profiles, and critical analyses by one of the twentieth century's leading jazz writers includes commentary on the work of jazz entertainers, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, as well as assessment of the role of jazz in contemporary culture and... Read more >
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To a Young Jazz Musician
Letters from the Road
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $11.99
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed... Read more >
Letters from the Road
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $11.99
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Essential Jazz Recordings
101 CDs
Written by Ross Porter
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $12.99
A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre.
Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being... Read more >
101 CDs
Written by Ross Porter
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $12.99
A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre.
Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Moving to Higher Ground
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $13.99
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal... Read more >
How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey Ward
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 2, 2008
Price: $13.99
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Jazz
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Read by LeVar Burton
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.99
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New... Read more >
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Read by LeVar Burton
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $24.99
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New... Read more >
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Jazz Guide, New York City, 2nd Edition
Written by Steve Dollar
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
A "richly anecdotal and wonderful" slim, pocket-size guide now updated to include all the newest hot spots on the Big Apple jazz scene
Jazz Guide: New York City is the only comprehensive guide to jazz in the Big Apple–now revised and expanded to include all the newest hot spots on the scene... Read more >
Written by Steve Dollar
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.95
A "richly anecdotal and wonderful" slim, pocket-size guide now updated to include all the newest hot spots on the Big Apple jazz scene
Jazz Guide: New York City is the only comprehensive guide to jazz in the Big Apple–now revised and expanded to include all the newest hot spots on the scene... Read more >
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The Essential Jazz Recordings
101 CDs
Written by Ross Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $16.95
A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre.
Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being... Read more >
101 CDs
Written by Ross Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $16.95
A guide to the all-time must-have jazz recordings by a maven of the genre.
Possibly the twentieth century’s greatest musical innovation, jazz is now more popular than it has been for the past fifty years. But with the plethora of new recordings and the phenomenon in jazz of the same standards being... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Goodbye
In Search of Gordon Jenkins
Written by Bruce Jenkins
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $25.95
Goodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when... Read more >
In Search of Gordon Jenkins
Written by Bruce Jenkins
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $25.95
Goodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when... Read more >
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To a Young Jazz Musician
Letters from the Road
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed... Read more >
Letters from the Road
Written by Wynton Marsalis and Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $12.95
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”
Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Faces of Salsa
A Spoken History of the Music
Written by Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Translated by Stephen J. Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 236 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2003
Price: $16.95
In this collection of masterfully crafted interviews with some of the most famous creators of the music we call Salsa, prizewining Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura Fuentes explores the genesis of the music, its rise in popularity, its social context, and its artistic legacy. Filled with personal revelations by the musicians, historical... Read more >
A Spoken History of the Music
Written by Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Translated by Stephen J. Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 236 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2003
Price: $16.95
In this collection of masterfully crafted interviews with some of the most famous creators of the music we call Salsa, prizewining Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura Fuentes explores the genesis of the music, its rise in popularity, its social context, and its artistic legacy. Filled with personal revelations by the musicians, historical... Read more >
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