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Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger

Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger

Leslie Gourse

Biographer Leslie Gourse chronicles Blakeyâs colorful life and career, from his hard scrabble childhood in Pittsburgh to his final years as an international jazz icon.
Carmen McRae: Miss Jazz

Carmen McRae: Miss Jazz

Leslie Gourse

Jazz biographer Leslie Gourse recounts the colourful life story and numerous musical accomplishments of Carmen McRae, incorporating interviews with the artist herself, as well as with people whom McRae had known, and musicians with whom she ...
Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker

Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker

Leslie Gourse

Examines the life of the Indian princess Pocahontas and her contact with English settlers, especially John Smith.
The Congress

The Congress

Leslie Gourse

Surveys the origins of Congress, and discusses how it works, the differences between the two Houses, leadership, checks and balances, and Congressional powers
Billie Holiday: The Tragedy and Triumph of Lady Day

Billie Holiday: The Tragedy and Triumph of Lady Day

Leslie Gourse

Relates the story of the Afro-American woman who, despite a turbulent life, became one of the most famous singers in the history of jazz.
Dizzy Gillespie and the Birth of Bebop

Dizzy Gillespie and the Birth of Bebop

Leslie Gourse

A biography of jazz great Dizzy Gillespie traces his early life and examines his innovative contributions in the field of modern music.
Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul

Leslie Gourse

Traces the singer's musical roots, describes her accomplishments in soul, gospel, jazz, and other types of music, and recounts the ups and downs of her singing career and her personal life
Wynton Marsalis: Skain's Domain : a Biography

Wynton Marsalis: Skain's Domain : a Biography

Leslie Gourse

This private look at the life and career of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is based on hours of interviews with the artist, his family, friends, and musical associates. 40 photos. Index.
Timekeepers: The Great Jazz Drummers

Timekeepers: The Great Jazz Drummers

Leslie Gourse

Discusses the role of drumming in jazz and surveys some of the greatest jazz drummers in history, from Warren Baby Dodds and Arthur Zutty Singleton to Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.
Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan

Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan

Leslie Gourse

Revealed here is ”The Divine One” as only her closest friends and musical associates knew her. By her early twenties Sarah Vaughan was singining with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, helping them invent bebop.
Deep Down in Music: The Art of the Great Jazz Bassists

Deep Down in Music: The Art of the Great Jazz Bassists

Leslie Gourse

Presents the lives and artistry of notable jazz bassists, traces their influence on one another, and investigates the impact of various innovations on the development of jazz music.
American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

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Lisa Leslie

Lisa Leslie

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i * * SPORTS SUPERSTARS Image: ZUMA Press/Newscom LISA LESLIE Brent Kelley Lisa Leslie Copyright © 2013 by Infobase Learning All rights. Front Cover.
Leslie's short and easy Method with the Deists ... To which ...

Leslie's short and easy Method with the Deists ... To which ...

Charles LESLIE (M.A.)

Charles LESLIE (M.A.), Francis WRANGHAM. II. THE TRUTII OF CHRISTIANITY DEMONSTRATED. TO the preceding Four Marks, which are common to the matters ossact osMosas and osCHRisr, I now proceed to subjoin Four additional  ...
Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen

Desmond MacCarthy

LESLIE STEPHEN In that joyously aEectionate and informal book, The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, Maitland, after disclaiming any intention of criticising his work, says: “ If, as I doubt not, he has left worthy successors, someone will some ...
Will Nuclear Arms Agreements Work?

Will Nuclear Arms Agreements Work?

Leslie Gelb

Leslie H. Gelb Leslie H. Gelb is a national security correspondent for The New York Times. He has also served as the director of the State Department's Bureau of Political Military Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. As a former chairman of  ...
Contemporary Armenian American Drama: An Anthology

Contemporary Armenian American Drama: An Anthology

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An Anthology Nishan Parlakian, S. Peter Cowe. LESLIE AYVAZIAN NINE ARMENIANS Writers And Artists Agency, representing Leslie Ayvazian, has extended the 1 LESLIE AYVAZIAN.
Waking Up to You: Overexposed

Waking Up to You: Overexposed

Leslie Kelly

Overexposed Leslie Kelly. W/a/cing Up 1'0 Yeu (Q Overexpesea' Leslie Kelly 4:} HARLEQU l N5 BLAZEW If you purchased this book without a cover you should.
42 Rules for Successful Collaboration

42 Rules for Successful Collaboration

David Coleman

Leslie Yerkes (Rule 17) Leslie Yerkes is President of Catalyst Consulting Group, Inc. (http://www.changeisfun.com) an organizational development and change management consulting firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. Leslie's business goal is to ...
Mr Leslie's defence from some erroneous and dangerous ...

Mr Leslie's defence from some erroneous and dangerous ...

Charles LESLIE (M.A.)

Charles LESLIE (M.A.). TmcoNTENTs Scct. Vl. The Writer': Unrcasontble Demetml, concerning the Genninmest of an) Book of any Father. p. '2 MrLLshc't Answer to that Unreasonalrle De'mnd. p. m, 13 Scct. VII. The Writer': Objection, ' That the ...
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1967: July-December

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1967: July-December

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See METHODIST CHURCH (UNITED STATES) BOARD OF EDUCATION, EDITORIAL DIVISION, LESLIE, ROBERT FRANKLIN. High trails west. New York, Crown Publishers. 278 p. 3) Robert Franklin Leslie ; 15 Nové's ; A955162. LESLIE CO.
Thermidorian Societies And Their Enemies: Books I-III

Thermidorian Societies And Their Enemies: Books I-III

Leslie Herzberger

Books I-III Leslie Herzberger. THERMIDORIAN SOCIETIES AND THEIR ENEMIES BooksIIII Leslie Herzberger Copyright © 2007 by Leslie Herzberger. ISBN: Softcover 9781413477160 eBook.
Leslie Kish: Selected Papers

Leslie Kish: Selected Papers

Leslie Kish

This book is a compilation of Leslie Kish's key research papers.
French Pastry Murder

French Pastry Murder

Leslie Meier

Praise for Leslie Meier and her Lucy Stone Mysteries "I like Lucy Stone a lot, and so will readers." --Carolyn Hart "Leslie Meier writes with sparkle and warmth.
Art and Architecture of the World's Religions [2 volumes]

Art and Architecture of the World's Religions [2 volumes]

Leslie D. Ross

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ross, Leslie, 1956– Art and architecture of the world's religions / Leslie Ross. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-313-34286-8 (hard copy set: alk. paper) ...
Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Fiedler

Mark Royden Winchell

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Leslie Fiedler.
Dickson and Leslie Family History

Dickson and Leslie Family History

Rosaleen Dickson

R.J. Leslie was continually cheering the party with the assurance that help would come from the shore, but it was not to be. One by one, the men dropped off. One of the last to drop was R.J. In the end there was only the captain left, who had ...
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen. teresting, were those with two of the most distinguished authoresses of the day. One of them was Hannah More, who was about this time coming to the conclusion that the talents which had gained her distinction in the literary ...

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