Author: Gerard BieldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Cy Laurie Discography
Author: Gerard BieldermanWho's Who of British Jazz
Author: John ChiltonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826423892
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chilton details the work of musicians from every era of British jazz, ranging from those who played professionally before 1920 to today's young jazz stars.
Walking with Legends
Author: Mick BurnsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807135496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended family based on merit as much as nativity. For more than forty years, Martyn has been a fixture in the Crescent City's jazz scene, laying down the beat for generations of celebrated musicians and avidly promoting the city's unique musical heritage around the world. In Walking with Legends -- based on over forty hours of interviews with Martyn by fellow British jazz enthusiast and author Mick Burns -- Martyn reflects upon his life in jazz and offers a window into a musical world that few have understood, let alone witnessed from the inside. At the age of nineteen, jazz fanatic Martyn found his way to the Crescent City and began working as a professional drummer in clubs and studios. The first white man in the United States to join a black musician's union, he eventually started his own record label and recorded hundreds of jam sessions that today are regarded as classics in Europe. In 1972, he formed the Legends of Jazz, an old-style New Orleans jazz band that toured the world and took New Orleans jazz into the American showbiz mainstream. Martyn's life story provides unique intimate glimpses of a vanished generation of New Orleans musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Kid Sheik Cola, Harold Dejan, Joe Watkins, Albert Nicholas, Kid Thomas, Andrew Blakeney, and many others. Throughout his chronicle, Martyn highlights the continual clash of cultures that arose from an avid British pupil learning lessons of life and music from elderly African American strangers who take him under their wing both out of curiosity and self-interest. Together, they find a way to connect through music, even if the road gets a little bumpy at times. A standard-bearer for New Orleans's jazz drumming tradition, Martyn remains one of the city's busiest musicians and most avid promoters of New Orleans music. In Walking with Legends, he honors the legacies of the African American musicians who taught and inspired him and affirms the importance of the human relationships that make the music possible.
Mods: The New Religion
Author: Paul AndersonPublisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857128507
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Mod may have been born in the ballrooms and nightclubs around London but it soon rampaged throughout the country. Young kids soon found a passion for sharp clothes, music and dancing, but for some it was pills, thrills and violence. The original Mod generation tell it exactly how it was, in their very own words. First hand accounts of the times from the people who were actually on the scene. Top faces, scooterboys, DJs, promoters and musicians build up a vivid, exciting snapshot of what it was really like to be with the in-crowd. Packed with rare pictures, ephemera, art and graphics of the era. Featuring interviews with Eddie Floyd, Martha Reeves, Ian McLagan, Chris Farlowe and many more.
Cy Laurie
Author: Gerard BieldermanFirst Impressions
Author: Nora RobertsPublisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1250775833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Overwhelmed by the neighborly attentions of the cheerful and vivacious “girl next door,” a man burned by love finds his passions reigniting in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts’s First Impressions. Entrepreneur Vance Banning took a residence in rural Maryland to escape business pressures—and relationships with women pursuing his bank account. To the community, he’s a moody, out-of-work carpenter with a chip on his shoulder. To next door neighbor Shane Abbott, he’s just a man who needs a little kindness in his life. Vance’s suspicions of the stunning beauty’s intense interest in him start to fade when he realizes Shane’s compassion is honest and joyful—giving his heart permission to experience true love.
Life After Dark
Author: Dave HaslamPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857207008
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Nightclubs and music venues are often the source of a lifetime's music taste, best friends and vivid memories. They can define a town, a city or a generation, and breed scenes and bands that change music history. In Life After DarkDave Haslam reveals and celebrates a definitive history of significant venues and great nights out. Writing with passion and authority, he takes us from vice-ridden Victorian dance halls to acid house and beyond; through the jazz decades of luxurious ballrooms to mods in basement dives and the venues that nurtured the Beatles, the Stones, Northern Soul and the Sex Pistols; from psychedelic light shows to high street discos; from the Roxy to the Hacienda; from the Krays to the Slits; and from reggae sound systems to rave nights in Stoke. In a journey to dozens of towns and cities, taking in hundreds of unforgettable stories on the way, Haslam explores the sleaziness, the changing fashions, the moral panics and the cultural and commercial history of nightlife. He interviews clubbers and venue owners, as well as DJs and musicians; he meets one of the gangsters who nearly destroyed Manchester's nightlife and discusses Goth clubs in Leeds with David Peace.
The Old House on the Corner
Author: Maureen LeePublisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409132315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
A moving contemporary novel set in Liverpool about the new residents of Victoria Square Victoria Macara lives in the old house on the corner. When the land is sold, she finds herself surrounded by new properties called Victoria Square. The newcomers include mismatched lovers, Kathleen and Steve; Rachel, who is attempting to forget a terrible tragedy; Sarah who is running away from an abusive husband, while Anna and Ernie are just after a quiet life. For Marie, Victoria Square is a refuge from the men who murdered her husband; for Judy, it means a fresh start after forty years of marriage to a man she'd thought she'd love for ever. But it is to Gareth - trapped in a hopeless marriage - that Victoria is particularly drawn . . .
Travels With My Appetite
Author: Robert HowePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244411751
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Following Robert Howe's successful first book, 'I'll Give It Six Months, ' a delightful and humorous Memoir, 'Travels With My Appetite, ' his take on travel and food, is sure to prove equally entertaining. With a lifetime love of good food, he has travelled most of the world and tried cuisines from around the globe. His career has been as diverse as his travels, from a chef/butcher in a London hospital to a spell in the Diplomatic Service. His account of places travelled, food sampled, and some of his own recipes, makes for a very interesting, enjoyable, and at times humorous, read. Now retired, he lives near his favourite city, Chester, with his wife Linda Fraser-Web
Albany Park
Author: Patrice ChaplinPublisher: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
ISBN: 1912992299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Sensual, vivid and sometimes shocking, Albany Park is the story of Patrice Chaplin’s youthful years: from a grey wartime childhood to exhilarating and dangerous adventures in Europe and a romantic infatuation that came about in a sun-drenched Catalonian city. Patrice and Beryl, teenagers in the 1950s, live in Albany Park, a London suburb. Life is full of make-up, boys, trad jazz and Soho nightclubs; dreams are of Hollywood. Leaving behind dead-end jobs, they hitchhike across Spain, dressed in the alternative street fashions of the day: white lipstick, dangle earrings, drainpipe trousers. Their path leads to the ancient city of Girona and the charismatic poet, José Tarres. For Patrice it is a homecoming – a rebirth that will mark the end of a friendship and the beginning of a lifetime’s obsession. Patrice is enchanted by José, but there are shadows on the sunlit days – a possessive mother, mysterious absences, rumours of women and whispers of espionage. With plans to elope seemingly aborted, she finds herself alone in Paris, taking work as a showgirl, arrested as a vagrant and escaping unwanted sexual advances. Only years later, returning to Girona as a writer, does she finally learn the truth about the enigmatic José, the first and true passion of her life. ‘Surging intensity that keeps the reader glued to the page – On the Road, European style.’ – New York Times ‘Perfectly pitched and painfully funny… Chaplin is a true original.’ – New Society ‘The best evocation of a country since Laurie Lee’s.’ – Daily Mail