Four! / by Hawes, Hampton, 1928-1977

Table of Contents: “…Yardbird suite / Charlie Parker (6:40) -- There will never be another you / Warren-Gordon (6:59) -- Bow jest / Red Mitchell (6:30) -- Sweet Sue / Young-Harris (5:36) -- Up blues / Hampton Hawes (5:10) -- Like someone in love / Burke-Van Heusen (3:21) -- Love is just around the corner / Robin-Gensler (5:40) -- Thou swell / Rogers-Hart (4:54) -- The awful truth / Hampton Hawes (8:09).…”
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Moody and the Brass Figures / by Moody, James, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…/ James Moody (3:27) -- The moon was yellow / Leslie, Ahlert (4:26) -- Au privave / Charlie Parker (3:48) -- Ruby, my dear / Thelonious Monk (5:08) -- Simplicity and beauty (3:24) ; Never again (5:32) / Moody.…”
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Bop!

Table of Contents: “…Milano / John Lewis (6:06) -- Well, you needn't / Thelonious Monk (6:18) -- K.C. blues / Charlie Parker (9:01) -- A night in Tunisia / Dizzy Gillespie (7:56) -- Blue monk / Thelonious Monk (5:07) -- Half Nelson / Miles Davis (11:21) -- Lover man / Jimmy Davis ; Jimmy Sherman ; Ram Ramirez (6:28) -- 52nd street theme / Thelonious Monk (9:09).…”
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Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- "Not only a new art form but a new reason for living" -- "As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm" : hot collecting across the color line -- Hearing the "noisy lostness" : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”

Nica's dream : the life and legend of the jazz baroness / by Kastin, David

My little suede shoes.

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In Chicago - live at the Pershing Hotel.

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Damn! /

Table of Contents: “…Papa's got a brand new bag / James Brown (7:30) -- Sister Sadie / Horace Silver (6:57) -- Woody 'n' you / Dizzy Gillespie (6:50) -- The one before this / Gene Ammons (6:53) -- Watermelon man / Herbie Hancock (8:43) -- This here / Bobby Timmons (7:30) -- Scrapple from the Apple / Charlie Parker (5:25) -- Hi-fly / Randy Weston (6:35) -- A la mode / Curtis Fuller (6:25).…”
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A tribute to my friends /

Table of Contents: “…Blueberry Hill / Lewis, Stock, Rose (4:41) -- Sometimes I'm happy / Youmans, Robin, Grey (6:28) -- Stuffy / Coleman Hawkins (5:53) -- Birk's works / Dizzy Gillespie (2:37) -- Cotton tail / Duke Ellington (3:12) -- Lover man / Davis, Ramirez, Sherman (5:22) -- A tisket, a tasket / Fitzgerald, Alexander (4:26) -- Rockin' chair / Hoagy Carmichael (5:32) -- Now's the time / Charlie Parker (7: 20).…”
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Wales unchained : literature, politics and identity in the American century / by Williams, Daniel G.

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence; 2 Black and White: Boxing, Race and Modernity; 3 Blood Jumps: Dylan Thomas, Charlie Parker and 1950s America; 4 Class and Identity: Aneurin Bevan and Paul Robeson; 5 To Know the Divisions: The Identity of Raymond Williams; 6 'American Freaks': Welsh Poets and the United States; 7 Singing Unchained: Language, Nation and Multiculturalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.…”
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Jazz anecdotes : second time around / by Crow, Bill, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Wild scenes -- The word "jazz" -- Beginnings -- Inventions -- Pianos -- Teachers and students -- Stage fright -- Reading music -- Hiring and firing -- Managers, agents, and bosses -- On the road -- Arrangers and arrangements -- Cutting contests -- 52nd Street -- Jazz records -- Jazz on the air -- The well-dressed jazz musician -- Prejudice -- Songs -- Goofs -- Pranks -- The put-on -- Good lines -- Nicknames -- Louis Armstrong -- Bessie Smith -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Thomas "Fats" Walker -- Eddie Condon -- Pee Wee Russell -- Duke Ellington and his orchestra -- Benny Goodman -- Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young -- Art Tatum and his children -- Joe Venuti -- Tommy Dorsey -- Lionel Hampton -- Charlie Parker -- John Birks Gillespie -- Charles Mingus -- Zoot Sims and Al Cohn -- Miles Davis and John Coltrane -- Jokes.…”

Afro-Cuban jazz suite : cancion and mambo / by Machito

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A jumpin' jubilee.

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Cool Bird.

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Earliest Bird.

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Now's the time.

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Summit meeting at Birdland.

Parker's mood / by Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955

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Tease! : the beat of burlesque.

Table of Contents: “…The nervous beat / The Creed Taylor Orchestra -- Funky blues / Charlie Parker -- Real gone / Sam "The Man" Taylor -- St. …”
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Don't forget the blues /

Table of Contents: “…Blues'd out / Ray Brown (4:24) -- Jim / Caesar Petrillo, Nelson Shawn, Milton Samuels (5:32) -- Night train / Jimmy Forrest, Oscar Washington, Lewis Simpkins (4:52) -- If I could be with you (one hour tonight) / Henry Creamer, Jimmy Johnson (6:44) -- Rocks in my bed / Duke Ellington (6:54) -- You don't know me / Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold (5:59) -- Jumpin' the blues / Jay McShann, Charlie Parker, Walter Brown (2:46) -- Don't forget the blues / Ray Brown (6:13).…”
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