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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B AND AND
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B AND AND
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography
B AND AND
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2015. | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm. | English | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B AND AND Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B AND AND Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography B AND AND |
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Online OverDrive Collection
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Live Oak Media | English | Available Online
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[2018] | MackinVIA | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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2012 | Kensington Pub. Corp | ix, 333 p. ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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p2012 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 9 sound discs (9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2012 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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c2012 | Large print ed. | Thorndike Press | 481 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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[2012] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 1 sound media player (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another branch
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When Hannah Swensen hears that the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band will be playing at a festival in Lake Eden, Minnesota, she bakes up a supply of their namesake confections to welcome them. But tragedy strikes when their tour bus overturns on its way into town. And keyboard player Buddy Neiman's minor injuries turn deadly serious when someone plunges surgical scissors into his chest...Turns out, Buddy Neiman isn't the victim's real name. In fact, no...
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Cockrill Elementary - Kids Biography
B ARM MCD
Donelson Middle - Teen Biography
BIO ARM
Harpeth Valley Elementary - Kids Biography
B ARM MCD
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c2004 | Grosset & Dunlap | 105 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Cockrill Elementary - Kids Biography B ARM MCD Donelson Middle - Teen Biography BIO ARM Harpeth Valley Elementary - Kids Biography B ARM MCD |
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2004 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Grosset & Dunlap | 1 online resource (106 pages) : illustrations. | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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2004 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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Presents a short study of singer, songwriter, and jazz musician Louis Armstrong and chronicles his childhood in New Orleans and rise in the entertainment industry.
4) Soul
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[2021] | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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A New York jazz musician suddenly finds himself stuck between Earth and the afterlife.
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Biography
B FIT ORG
Chadwell Elementary - Kids Biography
B FIT ORG
Eagle View Elementary - Kids Biography
B Fit Org
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2010 | 1st ed. | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. | On Shelf
Gower Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT ORG Hermitage Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT ORG Inglewood Elementary - Kids Biography B ORG FIT | |
2013, c2010 | 1st ed., reformatted. | 41 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT ORG Chadwell Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT ORG Eagle View Elementary - Kids Biography B Fit Org | |
2013, c2010 | 1st ed., reformatted. | 41 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Hattie Cotton Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT ORG Jones Paideia Magnet Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT ORG |
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A biography of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald featuring full-page color illustrations. Describes her early life as a poor orphan and how she became a singing star.
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2013. | First Atria Books trade paperback edition. | Atria Paperback | 435 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media, LLC | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2013 | OverDrive | Atria Books | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2013 | Atria Books | English | Checked Out
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In Jazz Age London, a tale of a passionate and forbidden interracial romance, and the unbreakable bond between a bright young woman and her eccentric grandmother, unfolds.
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B FIT PIN
Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone
E PIN
Charlotte Park Elementary - Kids Biography
B FIT PIN
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c2002 | 1st ed. | Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT PIN Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone E PIN Charlotte Park Elementary - Kids Biography B FIT PIN |
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OverDrive | Unabridged | Weston Woods Studios, a subsidiary of SCHOLASTIC Inc | English | Available Online
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A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician in the voice of "Scat Cat Monroe."
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
788.7 RAS
Dan Mills Elementary - Everyone
E RAS
Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Ras
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1997 | 1st Orchard pbks. ed. | {32} p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Eagle View Elementary - Everyone E Ras Gower Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 788.7 Ras Tulip Grove Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 788.7 Ras | |
c1992 | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
Dan Mills Elementary - Everyone E RAS Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Kids Biography B PAR RAS Glengarry Elementary - Everyone E RAS | ||
2004, c1992 | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 788.7 RAS |
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Introduces the musical style of jazz known as be bop as played by legendary African-American saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography
B ELL PIN
Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography
B ELL PIN
Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography
B PIN
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c1998 | 1st ed. | Hyperion Books for Children | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography B ELL PIN Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography B ELL PIN Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography B PIN |
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A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
10) Dizzy
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Bellshire Elementary - Everyone
E WIN
Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
B GIL WIN
Chadwell Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
788.9 WIN
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2006 | 1st ed. | Arthur A. Levine Books | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Bellshire Elementary - Everyone E WIN Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography B GIL WIN Chadwell Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 788.9 WIN |
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After arriving in New York, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was soon playing with the famous Cab Calloway Band, but his clowning around got him fired. Dizzy kept trying out his new music which took over the world of jazz. He had invented "bebop!"
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2003 | 1st ed. | Ballantine Books | 388 p. ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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p2003 | Random House Audio | 5 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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2003 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2003 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2003 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion but the
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[2013] | Gotham Books | 483 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Biography B TEA ELL |
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2013 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2013 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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An account of the public and private lives of the eminent jazz artist covers his slave heritage, the musical talent that inspired some 1,700 compositions, and his relationships with numerous lovers.
13) Miles ahead
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[2016] | [English/French/Spanish/Portuguese/Thai version] | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
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2001 | 1st ed. | Doubleday | xiii, 412 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks.
Quincy Jones...
Quincy Jones...
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B LIS RUS
Antioch High - Teen Biography
E B RUS LIS
Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography
B LIS RUS
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2014. | First edition. | Lee & Low Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm. | English | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography B LIS RUS Antioch High - Teen Biography E B RUS LIS Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography B LIS RUS |
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"A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources"--
16) Jazz
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c2000 | PBS DVD | 10 videodiscs (ca. 19 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
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Glencliff Elementary - Kids Biography
B ARM MCK
Glenview Elementary - Kids Biography
B ARM MCK
Jones Paideia Magnet Elementary - Kids Biography
B ARM MCK
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c2001 | Rev. ed. | Enslow Publishers | 32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Glencliff Elementary - Kids Biography B ARM MCK Glenview Elementary - Kids Biography B ARM MCK Jones Paideia Magnet Elementary - Kids Biography B ARM MCK |
18) Born to be blue
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[2016] | IFC Films | 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
781.65 KAL
Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
781.65 KAL
Hunter's Lane High - Teen Non-Fiction
781.65 KAL
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2003 | 112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction 781.65 KAL Hunter's Lane High - Teen Non-Fiction 781.65 KAL J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Non-Fiction 781.6509 KAL | |
c2012 | 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction 781.65 KAL Wright Middle - Teen Non-Fiction 781.65 KAL |
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c2012 | MackinVIA | Lucent Books | 1 online resource (128 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. | English | Available Online
MackinVIA |
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Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a history of each musical style, from its roots to its expression along with glimpses of the lives of leading composers and musicians. This volume focuses on the music style of jazz.
20) Louis Armstrong
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography
B ARM FAH
Croft Middle - Teen Biography
B ARM FAH
Jere Baxter Middle - Teen Biography
B ARM FAH
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c2002 | 40 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. | On Shelf
Croft Middle - Teen Biography B ARM FAH Jere Baxter Middle - Teen Biography B ARM FAH Two Rivers Middle - Teen Biography B ARM FAH | |
c2010 | 32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography B ARM FAH |
Description
This book describes the life and achievements of Louis Armstrong, renowned trumpeter and outstanding figure in the history of jazz.