Jazz | Jazz
Apr.19.2008
Europe is at war. Nazi bombers are hammering London. Wendell Willkie is giving Roosevelt a run for his money. In Kansas City, Dorie and her partner, Amos, are trying to keep the blond and beautiful Thalia Hines from destroying herself. It's not easy. The girl has every reason to escape the cold...
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Apr.19.2008
"One O'Clock Jump" is like a time capsule, transporting a tale of murder, greed, and intrigue from vintage Kansas City into the present day. Dorie Lennox is a humdinger of a private eye.
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Mar.05.2008
Everybody knows someone like James Justus.
James is a wonderboy, that guy who can do anything he sets his mind to—all with seemingly little effort. Good looks, great personality, big heart, amazing artistic instincts, the works. You’d be hard pressed to find a chink in his armor.
Everybody knows...
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Mar.05.2008
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers was one of the most enduring, popular, reliable and vital small bands in modern jazz history.
Blakey was not only a distinguished, inventive and powerful drummer, but along with Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, he was one of jazz's foremost talent scouts.
The...
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Jan.30.2008
Few regions in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, and yet no other region has been so misrepresented by the mass media. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers's groundbreaking work shows how a remarkable procession of innovators from the hills of...
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Jan.13.2008
HUGE DREAMS: For the first time in one volume, THE NEW BOOK / A BOOK OF TORTURE and STAR present vividly contrasting sides of poetry's consciousness. In THE NEW BOOK / A BOOK OF TORTURE, a classic example of immediate biological expression, Michael McClure simultaneously delves into, and delivers...
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