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"A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring...
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"Cultures clash and passion ignites in the novel that will leave you begging for more--from the bestselling author of The Affair and Looking Inside. There's something about this woman... On a break between overseas jobs, journalist Asher Gaites returns to his hometown of Chicago--and allows his friends to persuade him to check out a hot new singer. At a downtown jazz club, he's soon transfixed by the lyrical voice and sensuous body of a woman who...
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"Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at school, Madeleine doggedly searches for Philadelphia's...
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2020.
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Meet Ella Fitzgerald and discover the story of her life and work in this engagingly illustrated biographyاnarrated by the singer herself. Sometimes called أThe First Lady of Song,ؤ other times أThe Queen of Jazz,ؤ Ella Fitzgerald was one of the most popular singers of the twentieth century. She not only worked with the greatest composers and musicians of her time, she won 13 Grammy Awards, received the National Medal of Arts, and the Kennedy...
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2014.
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A musical road movie, Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to honor its victims. From Atlanta to New Orleans, from New York to Bordeaux and Luxembourg, the songs...
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"Having lost her mother at a young age, Ella Fitzgerald struggled as a child, especially during the Great Depression. But after winning over the audience with her singing at an Amateur Night at the Apollo, Ella's career began, and she eventually went on to become a world-renowned singer known as the First Lady of Song. Complete with an introduction from Chelsea Clinton, black-and-white illustrations throughout, and a list of ways that readers can...
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Canary Club mysteries volume 2
Canary Club Mystery volume 2
Canary Club Mystery volume 02
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Canary Club Mystery volume 2
Canary Club Mystery volume 02
Thorndike Press large print mystery
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"A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her father. But now he's dead, and she's newly arrived and alone,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Thirteen-year-old Chloe and her younger brother Parker are transported back to 1934 Harlem where they meet Ella Fitzgerald the day before she wins Amateur Night at the Apollo, but with Ella making plans to miss the event, the kids have to get her to the Apollo, and convince her to sing instead of dance.
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[2012]
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Anita O'Day was one of the greatest of American jazz singers, and this documentary tells her story--a journey of survival and, above all, the endurance of her talent, told in a number of frank interviews with her and with those who know her. Her career was long and eventful, spanning seven decades; her last album recorded when she was 84.
15) Kiss and tell
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When Alexis's sister dies in a tragic car accident, she is left as the legal guardian to her sister's two young daughters. A budding freelance journalist, Alexis barely makes enough money for herself. Upon learning that elusive jazz singer Max Deroux is coming to town, Alexis realizes that this could be her big chance. But what Alexis hadn't counted on was her attraction to him.
19) Living out loud
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[1999]
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A newly divorced woman is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex-husband and his young bride until she finds unexpected companionship in a bold and sassy jazz singer and a down-on-his-luck elevator operator in her fashionable Fifth Avenue building.
20) Sing for me
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2014.
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Raised in the Danish Baptist Church, Rose Sorensen knows it's wrong to sing worldly songs. So she sings them when no one is around. One day, Rose's cousin takes her to Calliope's, a jazz club where blacks and whites mingle, brought together by music. She knows her parents have a husband in mind for her, yet Rose can't stop thinking about Theo Chastain, the African American pianist for the Chess Men. Then she's offered a job as their singer. Rose...
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