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Book Henry Loves Jazz

Download or read book Henry Loves Jazz written by Stephen Lacey and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Lacey is quite possibly the most neurotic human being on the planet. A bundle of depression, anxiety and hives, he wonders whether he's cut out to be a father. In fact, he's not even sure he likes children. Henry Loves Jazz is a fly-on-the-wall account of what happens when Henry, his first-born child, comes home: the sleepless nights, exploding eco-nappies, celebrity chef cookbooks, black jellybeans and giant Mexican tarantulas. Henry Loves Jazz is not just about those first months of coping with a baby at forty-three, but the author's journey from a childless existence to the dagdom of parenthood. Along the way, he questions everything he knows about his own upbringing and his relationship with his parents and his long-suffering wife. He also discovers a love so deep, he can't see the bottom.

Book Swing  Sing and All That Jazz

Download or read book Swing Sing and All That Jazz written by Henry Holloway and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from being one of just two non-Americans in history to be honoured with Americas prestigious Golden Bandstand Award, South African broadcaster, Henry Holloways remarkable impact on American light music during his 40 years on the air, internationally, is told in this book, in words and pictures. Holloways dozens of long-running radio series on American music legends are jewels, in addition to his regular series, Swing, Sing and All That Jazz, the title of which clearly depicts Henrys penchant for that genre. His relentless pursuit to perpetuate the best from the Golden Age has prompted remarkable responses from music legends like Artie Shaw, Buddy DeFranco, Sammy Cahn, Professor Paul Tanner, Neal Hefti, Steve Allen, Bob Crosby, Les Brown, Milt Bernhart and Ray Evans, to mention but a few of many. His Golden Bandstand Award, invitations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Society Of Singers, the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society, setting world records with his 60 hours radio series on Les Brown in 2001 and his 115 programmes on Glenn Miller in 2004/06, lectures on luxury cruise liners, broadcasting on the BBC, being interviewed on television and by the press in the USA; these and many other highlights are encapsulated on a first-hand basis in this remarkable autobiography by a unique South African.

Book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Download or read book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet written by Jamie Ford and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviews “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel." -- Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Jamie Ford's first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.” -- Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept. Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart. BONUS: This edition contains a Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet discussion guide and an excerpt from Jamie Ford's Love and Other Consolation Prizes.

Book Did They Mention the Music

Download or read book Did They Mention the Music written by Henry Mancini and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for the "dead-ant" theme to the Pink Panther films, Henry Mancini also composed the music to Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, and the Academy Award winning soundtracks to Victor/Victoria and The Days of Wine and Roses. In a career that lasted over thirty years, Mancini amassed twenty Grammy awards and more nominations than any other composer. In his memoir, written with jazz expert Lees, Mancini discusses his close friendships with Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, and Paul Newman, his professional collaborations with Johnny Mercer, Luciano Pavarotti, and James Galway, and his achievements as a husband, father, and grandfather. A great memoir loaded with equal parts Hollywood glitz and Italian gusto.

Book Strings of Subversion

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  • Author : K. Victoria Chase
  • Publisher : K. Victoria Chase
  • Release : 2017-05-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Strings of Subversion written by K. Victoria Chase and published by K. Victoria Chase. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Paint is to Love Again

Download or read book To Paint is to Love Again written by Henry Miller and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and expanded edition of the title, first published in 1960.

Book Playing Changes

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  • Author : Nate Chinen
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-07-23
  • ISBN : 1101873493
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Playing Changes written by Nate Chinen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, GQ, Billboard, JazzTimes In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to an explosion of new ideas and approaches; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering possibilities to come.

Book Mosquito

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  • Author : Gayl Jones
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2016-06-28
  • ISBN : 0807095753
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book Mosquito written by Gayl Jones and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-first century.--E. Ethelbert Miller, Emerge

Book So this is Jazz

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  • Author : Henry Osborne Osgood
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book So this is Jazz written by Henry Osborne Osgood and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • ISBN : 0520280644
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tin Moon

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  • Author : Stephen Lacey
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster (Australia)
  • Release : 2003-11-25
  • ISBN : 9780684020860
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Tin Moon written by Stephen Lacey and published by Simon & Schuster (Australia). This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of an urbanizing Australia in 1969, The Tin Moon is the brilliant, humorous story of a boy just trying to make sense of his parents, his teachers, and his new neighbors. While Neil Armstrong is landing on the moon and the Vietnam War is raging on television, Jimmy Smith is most concerned with wreaking havoc on the city people who are gentrifying his country village, the hippies living in a bus, and understanding how his parents can be so absurd. Filled with humor, nostalgia, and the search for meaning that lies at the heart of childhood, The Tin Moon is an extraordinary debut novel from a great new talent.

Book The Music America Loves Best

Download or read book The Music America Loves Best written by Radio Corporation of America. RCA Victor Division and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Labor of Love

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  • Author : Linda Sullivan
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2003-09
  • ISBN : 0595293050
  • Pages : 78 pages

Download or read book A Labor of Love written by Linda Sullivan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a young woman in search of love and her mystical master who stumbles upon a secret society of mystical jazz musicians. Will she find love? Will she find her master? What actually unfolds is stranger than fiction, as she follows the mystical path laid out for her into magic that surpasses all belief or comprehension.

Book Can t I Love what I Criticize

Download or read book Can t I Love what I Criticize written by Susan Neal Mayberry and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrison’s eight novels, this book explores Morrison’s admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the “axes” on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters. Can’t I Love What I Criticize? offers a response to this imbalance and to Morrison’s call for more work on men, who remain, in her words, “outside of that little community value thing.” The book also considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a larger, historically racist culture of competition, ownership, sexual repression, and fixed ideals about physical beauty and romantic love. Black women, Morrison says, bear their crosses “extremely well,” and black men, although they have been routinely emasculated by “white men, period,” have managed to maintain a feisty “magic” that everybody wants but nobody else has. Understanding Morrison’s treatment of her male characters, says Susan Mayberry, becomes crucial to grasping her success in “countering the damage done by a spectrum of sometimes misguided isms”--including white American feminism. Morrison’s version of masculinity suggests that black men have “successfully retained their special vitality in spite of white male resistance” and that “their connections to black women have saved their lives.” To single out her men is not to negate the preeminence of her women; rather, it is to recognize the interconnectedness and balance between them.

Book GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

Download or read book GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a linguistic journey with "Verbal Harmony: Mastering Gerunds and Infinitives with MCQs." Tailored for learners, educators, and language enthusiasts, this comprehensive guide delivers an interactive learning experience. Explore the dynamic world of gerunds and infinitives through a diverse collection of multiple-choice questions, refining your language proficiency. Elevate your grammar skills, grasp the subtleties of using these verb forms in various contexts, and confidently construct well-structured and nuanced sentences. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your linguistic finesse. Secure your copy now and delve into the art of mastering gerunds and infinitives in English!

Book I Love My Angel

Download or read book I Love My Angel written by WALTER CLAY COX JR. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a boy from a small town goes from being shy to being the first college graduate in his entire family. To being a Captain in the infantry graduating from Fort Benning infantry school and basic training in the hottest weather Camp Wolters, Texas could deal out. To being president of his fraternity, to becoming an attorney, to being a JAGC officer in Korea, to being a founding partner of a prestigious law firm, to finally ending career as an individual practitioner of estate law.