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2022. Call No: NEW BLK 781.65 P358b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic “Strange Fruit” made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song “I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?” And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.
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2018., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF BLK 848.5403 P359t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Stanley Péan's Taximan is the trace, the record of exile from Haiti. It is also a portrait of urban North America through its displaced people who, despite their native sadness, turn up the music and drive."--.
