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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique. In The Thelonious Monk Reader, Rob van der Bliek has brought together some of the most revealing pieces ever written on Monk, providing...
Myself When I Am Real
The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression...
Shostakovich
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1999
For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to primary documents: Shostakovich's many letters, concert programs and reviews, newspaper articles, and diaries of his contemporaries. An indefatigable...
Draw a Straight Line and Follow It
The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement-Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"--La Monte Young remains an enigma within the music world, one of the most important and yet most elusive composers of the late twentieth century. Early in his career Young almost completely...
Swing Along
The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Renowned today as a prominent African-American in Music Theater and the Arts community, composer, conductor, and violinist Will Marion Cook was a key figure in the development of American music from the 1890s to the 1920s. In this insightful biography, Marva Griffin Carter offers the first definitive...
by David Schiff
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) was the foremost composer of classical music in America during the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades, he consistently produced works that critics hailed as creatively daring, intellectually demanding, and emotionally...
Stripping Gypsy
The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized...
Public Cowboy No. 1
The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Now, in Public Cowboy No.1, Holly George-Warren offers the first serious biography of this singular individual, in a fascinating narrative that traces Autry's climb from...
Hi-de-ho:The Life of Cab Calloway
The Life of Cab Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab...
Fanny Brice : The Original Funny Girl
The Original Funny Girl
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1992
I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man" Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted...
by Michael Scheuer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no...
Crossing Hitler:The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription...
Fire in the City:Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship...
That Man
An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death,...