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c2014., Mantle Call No: MYS Fic Cel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer the Axeman stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. Though every citizen of the Big Easy thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, Detective Lieutenant Michael Talbot, heading up the official investigation, is struggling to find leads. But Michael has a grave secret and if he doesn't find himself on the right track fast it could be exposed.
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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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-- Pour l'amour de la musique2016., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Born Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in this remarkably creative reimagining of the legendary jazz trumpeter's struggle to overcome his drug addiction and stage a comeback."--Container.
![Born to be blue [DVD] (2016). Directed by Robert Budreau](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Born to be blue [DVD] (2016). Directed by Robert Budreau")
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[2004], p1984., General, MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Cotton C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: MGM DVDSummary Note: "Oscarª winners Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a 'mesmerizing' (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. Nominated for three Oscarsª, The Cotton Club is a 'genuine vision' (Newsweek) of the golden age of jazz you won't soon forget! 1928, New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz, lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the center of it all is Harlem's Cotton Club. Playing on stage is cornet player Dixie Dwyer (Gere), who dreams of the big time, but he's too mixed up with the club's owner (Hoskins) -- and his sexy moll (Lane) -- to get anywhere fast. Add the frustration of tap sensation Sandman Williams (Hines), who can't touch his girl, the lovely lounge singer Lea Rose Oliver (Lonette McKee), and you've got a short fuse ready to go. As tensions rise, so do tempers, and the legendary nightclub becomes a pressure cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs that blows the lid off one of the most shocking showdowns ever staged."--Container.
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2013., Gotham Books Call No: BLK Bio E46t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An account of the public and private lives of the eminent jazz artist covers his slave heritage, the musical talent that inspired some 1,500 compositions, and his relationships with numerous lovers.
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By Grady, Waynec2013., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: QWF BLK Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is a novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change. With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's WWII, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and is desperate to see the world.
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By Edugyan, Esic2011., Thomas Allen Call No: BLK Fic Edu Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is a new part of an old story: 1930s Berlin, the threat of imprisonment and the powerful desire to make something beautiful despite the horror. Ernst told them not to go out. Said don't you boys tempt the devil. But the cheap beer in his gut must have made Hieronymus think a glass of milk would be worth the risk. Of course Ernst was right, and the star player on the Berlin scene of the late 1930s, right before the war began for the second time, was taken away that night by the Boots. An easy target, being a mixed-race German. Not like the others, the Americans, Europeans, black, white and Jewish, who could hide a while longer. Fifty years later and Sidney's going back, to hear for the first time the unfinished recording the band was making, the obsession that kept them there long after it was safe. The thing that stopped them using those visas while they were still good.
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By Edugyan, Esic2011., Thomas Allen Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: This is a new part of an old story: 1930s Berlin, the threat of imprisonment and the powerful desire to make something beautiful despite the horror. Ernst told them not to go out. Said don't you boys tempt the devil. But the cheap beer in his gut must have made Hieronymus think a glass of milk would be worth the risk. Of course Ernst was right, and the star player on the Berlin scene of the late 1930s, right before the war began for the second time, was taken away that night by the Boots. An easy target, being a mixed-race German. Not like the others, the Americans, Europeans, black, white and Jewish, who could hide a while longer. Fifty years later and Sidney's going back, to hear for the first time the unfinished recording the band was making, the obsession that kept them there long after it was safe. The thing that stopped them using those visas while they were still good.
![Half-blood blues [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT77866.JPG "Half-blood blues [eBook]")
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2013, c2012., General, Penguin Call No: Fic Cou Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A spellbinding story of chance, music, corruption, and love set in 1930s Toronto. During the Great Depression there is little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal, drunken father in a late-night card game. Jack makes music as a way to escape his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano. Jack is a virtuoso and hits the road, enchanting audiences in Canada, wartime Europe, and Las Vegas.
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2022., University Press of Mississippi Call No: NEW QWF 781.62 V597j Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American made music series.Summary Note: During the formative years of jazz (1890-1917), the Creoles of Color-as they were then called-played a significant role in the development of jazz as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, and composers. Indeed, music penetrated all aspects of the life of this tight-knit community, proud of its French heritage and language. They played and/or sang classical, military, and dance music as well as popular songs and cantiques that incorporated African, European, and Caribbean elements decades before early jazz appeared. In Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz, the author describes the music played by the Afro-Creole community since the arrival of enslaved Africans in La Louisiane, then a French colony, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, emphasizing the many cultural exchanges that led to the development of jazz. Caroline Vézina has compiled and analyzed a broad scope of primary sources found in diverse locations from New Orleans to Quebec City, Washington, DC, New York City, and Chicago. Two previously unpublished interviews add valuable insider knowledge about the music on French plantations and the danses Creoles held in Congo Square after the Civil War. Musical and textual analyses of cantiques provide new information about the process of their appropriation by the Creole Catholics as the French counterpart of the Negro spirituals. Finally, a closer look at their musical practices indicates that the Creoles sang and improvised music and/or lyrics of Creole songs, and that some were part of their professional repertoire. As such, they belong to the Black American and the Franco-American folk music traditions that reflect the rich cultural heritage of Louisiana.
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[1967], Macmillan Co. Call No: BLK 781.5 W725j Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Macmillan jazz masters series
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[1965], Macmillan Call No: BLK 781.5 H131j Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Macmillan jazz masters series
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2005., General, EuroArts Music International Call No: DVD 781.65 J37a Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jarrett talks about his artistry, great musicians he has worked with, the highlights and crises of his life. Includes interviews with fellow musicians, family, tour managers and other close musical associates and includes rare concert footage. Includes interviews with Jarrett, Manfred Eicher, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Cloud, Scott Jarrett, George Avakian, Gary Burton, Toshinari Koinuma, Chick Corea, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Rose Anne Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Jon Christensen, and Palle Danielsson.
![Keith Jarret [DVD] (2005) : the art of improvisation](/Library/images/~imageCT83020.JPG "Keith Jarret [DVD] (2005) : the art of improvisation")
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c2012., Adult, McArthur & Company Call No: Fic StJ Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's early 2009, and the economic collapse has turned an era once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression.
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By Gitler, Ira2001., Da Capo Call No: 781.65 G536m Edition: Rev. and updated Da Capo ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
