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Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Synopsis: If you have ever been lucky enough to hear great jazz, then you will understand the pure magic of this book. Leo and Diane Dillon use bright colors and musical patterns that make music skip off the page in this toe-tapping homage to many jazz greats. From Miles Davis and Charlie Parker to Ella Fitzgerald, here is a dream team sure to knock your socks off. Learn about this popular music form and read a biography of each player pictured-and...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Records
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Definitive, career-spanning, and comprehensive, the album features the biggest hits and best-loved songs from Earth, Wind & Fire, one of the most famous groups in music history. An incredible value, the two-disc package features classic hits and signature songs.
8) Camp songs
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Children's performer Ella Jenkins assembled a group of children, parents, and teachers from the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, along with Tony and Kate Seeger from Camp Killooleet, to sing these classic camp songs, rounds, silly songs, and campfire sing-alongs.
13) Cypress grove
Author
Publisher
Easy Eye Sound
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The new album from Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes captures the raw, explosive sound of real Mississippi juke-joint blues today. This is an aural postcard of a typical Saturday night at Holmes's Blue Front Cafe, America's longest operating juke joint. The album is anchored by tradition, but it's also explosive, raw, and unpredictable in the moment. The adventurous 11-song set is an untamed bridge between the present and the classic sounds of the Delta.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lin-Manuel Miranda gives readers an extraordinary inside look at "In the Heights," his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegría Hudes, soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster. Miranda offers untold stories, perceptive essays, and the lyrics to his songs. Features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage, the movie set, and productions around the world.
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