Jazz Collins Need to Know

Jazz  Collins Need to Know
Author: Bob Blumenthal
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780007582037

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The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music.

First 50 Jazz Standards You Should Play on Piano

First 50 Jazz Standards You Should Play on Piano
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publsiher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781495093135

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(Easy Piano Songbook). Do you feel you've learned enough piano skills to take on some jazz tunes? This book is designed to let beginners dive into jazz standards with success. The arrangements, although easy, are full enough to make you sound great. Lyrics are also included. This collection features 50 of the best jazz standards ever, including: All the Things You Are * Autumn in New York * Body and Soul * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) * Georgia on My Mind * The Girl from Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema) * It Could Happen to You * Misty * My Funny Valentine * Night and Day * Satin Doll * Speak Low * Summertime * The Way You Look Tonight * When I Fall in Love * You Stepped Out of a Dream * and more.

Conversations with Billy Collins

Conversations with Billy Collins
Author: John Cusatis
Publsiher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2022-07-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781496840684

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Billy Collins “puts the ‘fun’ back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. Known for what he has called “hospitable” poems, which deftly blend wit and erudition, Collins (b. 1941) is a poet of nearly unprecedented popularity. His work is also critically esteemed and well represented in The Norton Anthology of American Literature. An English professor for five decades, Collins was fifty-seven when his poetry began gathering considerable international attention. Conversations with Billy Collins chronicles the poet’s career beginning with his 1998 interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, which exponentially expanded his readership, three years prior to his being named United States Poet Laureate. Other interviewers range from George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review, to Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Henry Taylor to a Presbyterian pastor, a physics professor, and a class of AP English Literature students. Over the course of the twenty-one interviews included in the volume, Collins discusses such topics as discovering his persona, that consistently affable voice that narrates his often wildly imaginative poems; why poetry is so loved by children but often met with anxiety by high school students; and his experience composing a poem to be recited during a joint session of Congress on the first anniversary of 9/11, a tragedy that occurred during his tenure as poet laureate. He also explores his love of jazz, his distaste for gratuitously difficult poetry and autobiographical poems, and his beguiling invention of a mock poetic form: the paradelle. Irreverent, incisive, and deeply life-affirming—like his twelve volumes of poetry—these interviews, gathered for the first time in one volume, will edify and entertain readers in the way his sold-out readings have done for the past quarter century.

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment
Author: Michael Titlebaum
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0367854759

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Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performance skills through embellishment techniques. Written with the college-level course in mind, this introductory textbook is both practical and comprehensive, ideal for the aspiring improviser, focused not on scales and chords but melodic embellishment. It assumes some basic theoretical knowledge and level of musicianship while introducing multiple techniques, mindful that improvisation is a learned skill as dependent on hard work and organized practice as it is on innate talent. This jargon-free textbook can be used in both self-guided study and as a course book, fortified by an array of interactive exercises and activities: musical examples performance exercises written assignments practice grids resources for advanced study and more! Nearly all musical exercises--presented throughout the text in concert pitch and transposed in the appendices for E-flat, B-flat, and bass clef instruments--are accompanied by backing audio tracks, available for download via the Routledge catalog page along with supplemental instructor resources such as a sample syllabus, PDFs of common transpositions, and tutorials for gear set-ups. With music-making at its core, Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment implores readers to grab their instruments and play, providing musicians with the simple melodic tools they need to "jazz it up."

Dead Girls Don t Write Letters

Dead Girls Don t Write Letters
Author: Gail Giles
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780689866241

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From the acclaimed author of "Shattering Glass." When Sunny Reynolds's sister, Jazz, dies in a fire, the family falls apart. Soon, "Jazz" comes home, and everything returns to normal. But Sunny knows this girl is not her sister. Who is she? And what does she want?

Harlequin Presents August 2014 Bundle 2 of 2

Harlequin Presents August 2014   Bundle 2 of 2
Author: Lynne Graham,Caitlin Crews,Cathy Williams,Dani Collins
Publsiher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781460339688

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Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes Zarif's Convenient Queen by USA TODAY bestselling author Lynne Graham, Undone by the Sultan's Touch by USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews, The Argentinian's Demand by USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams and The Ultimate Seduction by Dani Collins. Look for 8 new exciting stories every month from Harlequin Presents!

Love and Pursuit Three Jazz Age Tales of Crime and Passion

Love and Pursuit Three Jazz Age Tales of Crime and Passion
Author: C. K. Charlotte
Publsiher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781509218523

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Escape to a more interesting time and experience the crimes and passions of London’s gilded youth. Love and the Pursuit of Law Ivy Smythe is one of the first women to be admitted as a barrister in England. The Honorable Bryan Henderson is the young aristocrat she defends on charges of murdering a prostitute. Together they experience the excitement of London’s Jazz Age and a growing attraction neither can deny. Love and the Pursuit of Justice Diana Vanderwell is an American heiress accused of being an accessory to the murder. Graham Wetherington is the young barrister charged with defending her. Can a British barrister and an American heiress survive a criminal investigation and forge a life together? Love and the Pursuit of Redemption Margarite Hagen Fusani is the wife of an Egyptian playboy and a former courtesan. James Arthur, the Second Duke of Donovan, has been in love with her since his military posting in Paris during the Great War. When Margarite is charged with murdering her abusive husband, the Duke uses his influence to exonerate her. Can a former French courtesan and a British duke overcome class prejudice and prevail against the criminal justice system to find happiness?

The Nudger Dilemmas

The Nudger Dilemmas
Author: John Lutz
Publsiher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-12-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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NUDGER IS ONE OF THE COOLEST, MOST ACCESSIBLE DETECTIVES IN HISTORY! This collection of 13 previously published stories starring Nudger, Lutz's worrywart St. Louis detective, provides an entertaining introduction to one of the genre's most distinctive private eyes. Nudger, whose ever-present antacids protect a stomach that turns at the mere hint of danger, somehow manages to do his job without resorting to fists or handguns. The well-turned phrase is his most lethal weapon, whether he's seeking justice for an executed man proved innocent after the fact or coming to the aid of his friend Danny, proprietor of Danny's Donuts, who believes that his fellow shipmates from Vietnam are being killed one by one. Lutz, winner of both the Shamus and the Edgar, also holds a lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Lutz's work includes political suspense, private eye novels, urban suspense, humor, occult, crime caper, police procedural, espionage, historical, futuristic, amateur detective, thriller; virtually every mystery sub-genre. He is the author of more than forty novels and over 200 short stories and articles. His novels and short fiction have been translated into almost every language and adapted for almost every medium. He is a past president of both Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America. Among his awards are the MWA Edgar, the PWA Shamus, The Trophee 813 Award for best mystery short story collection translated into the French language, the PWA Life Achievement Award, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of two private eye series, the Nudger series, set in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Carver series, set in Florida, as well as many non-series novels. His SWF SEEKS SAME was made into the hit movie SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and his novel THE EX was made into the HBO original movie of the same title, for which he co-authored the screenplay.