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World of Rhythm
Recorded live at Palazzo dei Cogressi, Lugano, 26 January 1983 TDK Jazz Club 1983 New DVD
Colour format: Colour Sound format: Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS Sound Display: Aspect Ratio 4:3 DVD region: 0 - All Regions Video system: PAL DVD special features: Biographies of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham.
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Armstrong, Louis Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings
Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2001 019514046X / 9780195140460 Paper Back New Book No Jacket
Armstrong recounts his early life in New Orleans, his experiences in Chicago and New York during the 1920s, his crowning as "King of the Zulus," and his late years in Queens, New York. Here is a dimension of Louis Armstrong that includes the history of jazz and, he history of American culture.
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Ashe Geoffrey The Quest for Arthur's Britain
BCA 1972 Green/gilt cloth Good Good
239 pp. 149 illustrations in b/w & line. Describes the excavations in search of Dark Age features at Cadbury, Tintagel, Glastonbury and Dinas Powys amongst others. Paper a little browned but a good copy in boards and dust wrapper
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Barker, Danny Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville
Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.,U.S. 2001 0826457029 / 9780826457028 Paper Back New Book No Jacket
This Is A Selection Of Jazz Guitarist, Banjoist, Singer And Composer, Danny Barker's Writings (beginning With A Long Portrait Of Buddy Bolden, The "first Man Of Jazz") Drawn From Conversations And Interviews With The Generation Of Jazzmen That Invented The Music. : Illustrations 9 B&w Photos
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Blackburn,Julia With Billie
London, United Kingdom Jonathan Cape Ltd 2005 0224075896 / 9780224075893 Hard Cover New Book No Jacket
Billie Holiday - An extraordinary and haunting new life of the First Lady of jazz.This addition to the tide of Billie Holiday books is extremely welcome. Nowhere else is the context of her life and work so vividly captured. No dust jacket
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Brickhill Paul Reach for the Sky
London Collins 1956 10th Edition Blue cloth with Guilt Titles Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾
384 pages, includes index, 20 b&w photo. Illustrated biography of the famous World War II pilot. Blue cloth with no dj. No inscriptions.Corners a little bumped
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Chilton, John Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz Giant
London, United Kingdom Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. 2002 0826456928 / 9780826456922 Hard Cover New Book As New
This biography charts the life and career of the trumpeter, Roy Eldridge. New light is shed on the various occasions when Eldridge unwillingly became entangled with gangsters, his uneven working relationships and the hurdles he had to overcome when working in all-white ensembles.
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Filkin, David Stephen Hawking's Universe
London, United Kingdom BBC Books 1997 0563383011 / 9780563383017 Hard Cover Very Good As New 9"By11"Tall
The companion to the popular PBS series. For everyone who bought A Brief History of Time (9 million so far) but had trouble understanding it, this is a simple, easily accessible explanation of the same ideasand an introduction to the people behind them. . Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Now, in everyday language, Stephen Hawkings Universe reveals step-by-step how we can all share his understanding of the cosmos, and our own place within it. Stargazing has never been the same since cosmologists discovered that galaxies are moving away from each other at an extraordinary speed. It was this understanding of the movement of galaxies that allowed scientists to develop a theory of how the universe was createdthe Big Bang theory. Working with this theory, Stephen Hawking and other physicists felt challenged to come up with a scientific picture that would tackle the fundamental question: what is the nature of the universe? Stephen Hawkings Universe charts this work and provides simple explanations for phenomena that arouse our curiosity. This work is a voyage of discovery with an astonishing set of conclusions that will enable us to understand how matter can be produced from nothing at all and will provide us with an explanation for the basis of our existence and that of everything around us
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Foster E Sqn Ldr Life Hangs By a Silken Thread
Astia Publishing 0951898302 / 9780951898307 First Edition Hard Cover As New Good
Out-of-print title. The autobiography of an interesting character who at 102! was a serving member of the Bishops Cleeve Parish Council up to his death March 2006. In stock, ready to ship from Booksellers Association member.
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Gordon Ottewell The Countryside our Classroom
2009 0951058681 / 9780951058688 1st Edition Paperback New Book Ref A555 Signed by the author
The tale of a Cotswold Village School in the 1960s when the head teacher was free to lead their school as their personal beliefs dictated, unfettered by political and bureaucratic conformity. Gordon's Background A native of Derbyshire, Gordon Ottewell has lived in the Cotswolds for forty years, over twenty of which were spent as a headmaster. He is the author of several books on the region, most of which are walking guides and include Discovering Cotswold Villages and Literary Strolls in the Cotswolds and Forest of Dean. He wrote his first children's book called Tangleton in 2005 and followed that with an autobiographical account of his years working in a Derbyshire colliery, in a book called Square Peg, Memoirs of a Misfit Miner. He lectures widely on various aspects of countryside interpretation and has broadcast regularly on local radio. He is Chairman of Cheltenham Writers' Circle.
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Griffin, Farah Jasmine If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday
Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A. Free Pr 2001 0684868083 / 9780684868080 Hard Cover Good Good
Singer, composer, actress, lover, wife, writer, pleasure seeker, drug addict, icon, commodity, myth and mystery: Billie Holiday is still one of the most famous jazz vocalists of all time. But Holiday's image -- the gifted torch singer with insatiable appetites for food, sex, alcohol and drugs -- is not the full story
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