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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Cal Tjader, Lena Horne, Armando Peraza, Airto Moreira, Gary Mcfarland, Ruth Brown, Norman Schwartz, Chuck Rainey, Roger Shriver, Grady Tate. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait :Cal Tjader (né Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr.) était un musicien de latin jazz américain né le 16 juillet 1925 à St. Louis (Missouri) et s'éteint le 5 mai 1982 à Manila, (Philippines) d'une attaque cardiaque à presque 57 ans. Il jouait du vibraphone mais aussi de la batterie, des percussions et du piano. Il a travaillé avec de nombreux musiciens dont Mongo Santamaria ou Willie Bobo. Sa spécialité était d'associer des percussionnistes afro-cubains et une section de jazz. Cal Tjader, fils d'un producteur, apprend très jeune la danse avant de se tourner vers la musique, et en particulier les percussions. Tjader étudie la musique et l'éducation au San Francisco State College avant de collaborer avec son partenaire de chambre dans la Bay Area, Dave Brubeck. Il jouera de la batterie dans le Brubeck Trío entre 1949 et 1951 : plusieurs albums sont enregistrés pour Fantasy. Ce qui lui permettra plus tard de signer pour cette maison de disque. A la fin des années 40, il joue aussi dans quelques groupes californiens. Il travaille ensuite brièvement avec Alvino Rey. Au début des années 50, il fonde et dirige son propre groupe The Cal Tjader Trio, avec lequel il enregistre son premier album en tant que leader pour Fantasy Records. Il rejoignit en 1953 le combo quintet de George Shearing alors qu'il était en pleine réussite, en tant que vibraphoniste et percussionniste. Ce quintet était appelé "Wrap your troubles in drums" et Cal y jouait aussi de la batterie et des bongos. C'est alors que commence l'histoire d'amour entre Tjader et la musi...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 467 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ruth Brown, Lena Horne, Cal Tjader, Armando Peraza, Airto Moreira, Chuck Rainey, Gábor Szabó, Grady Tate, Gary Mcfarland, Wendy and Bonnie, Skye Records. Excerpt:Airto Moreira Airto Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim , and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles . Biography Airto Moreira was born in Itaiópolis , Brazil, into a family of folk healers, and raised in Curitiba and São Paulo . Showing an extraordinary talent for music at a young age, he became a professional musician at age 13, and his first landmark recording was Quarteto Novo with Hermeto Pascoal in 1967. Shortly after, he followed his wife Flora Purim to the United States . After moving to the USA, Airto began playing regularly with jazz musicians in New York , including the bassist Walter Booker . Through Booker, Airto began playing with Joe Zawinul , who in turn introduced him to Miles Davis . At this time Miles was experimenting with electronic instruments and rock and funk rhythms, a form which would soon come to be called Jazz fusion . Airto was to participate in several of the most important projects of this emerging musical form. Airto stayed with Miles for about two years, touring and participating in the creation of the seminal fusion recording Bitches Brew . Shortly after leaving Miles, Airto joined other Miles alumni Joe Zawinul , Wayne Shorter and Miroslav Vitous in their group Weather Report , playing percussion on their first album, Weather Report . He left Weather Report (replaced by Muruga Booker for their Sweetnighter album) to join fellow Miles alumnus Chick Corea 's new band Return to Forever . He played drums on Return to Forever's first two albums, their Return to ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Cats, Dreamgirls, Merrily We Roll Along, Bring Back Birdie, Lena Horne: the Lady and Her Music, March of the Falsettos, Woman of the Year, Copperfield, Pump Boys and Dinettes, the Little Prince and the Aviator, Marlowe, the First, Sophisticated Ladies, Chorus Girls. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 85. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard "Memory". The musical first opened in the West End in 1981 and then on Broadway in 1982. Each time directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it won numerous awards, including both the Laurence Olivier Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical. The London production ran for twenty one years and the Broadway production ran for eighteen years, both setting long-run records. Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became particularly associated with the musical. One actress, Marlene Danielle, performed in the Broadway production for its entire run (from 1982 until 2000). Cats has been performed around the world many times and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1998 it was also made into a television video. Cats is based on Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), which the composer recalled as having been a childhood favourite. The songs of the musical comprise Eliot's verse set to music by the composer, the principal exception being the most famous song from the musical, "Memory", for which the lyrics were written by Trevor Nunn after an Eliot poem entitled "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". Also, a brief song entitled "The Moments of Happiness" was taken from a passage in Eliot's Four Quartets. An unusual musical in terms of its construction, the overture incorpo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=215013 ... Read more

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Title: Lena Horne, officially retired from showbiz, turns 90 in June.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Author: Clarence Waldron
Publication: Jet (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 23, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 111Issue: 16Page: 57(2)

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These are tapes in shrinkwrap that are overstock. From Volume 1, the 2 tapes are: The Pearl and the Velvet Fog, and Superstar Session with Miles, Dizzy, Brubeck, Getz, Hancock, Shaw, Fountain, and Ahmad Jamal.Vol. II Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong.Plus 5th cassette The First Ladies of Song, Ella, Lena, and Pearl Bailey. ... Read more

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Dipping a Toe in Racial Waters
Lena Horne wrote many memoirs, and this was one of the earlier ones.It is a fascinating document of the times, "as told to Helen Arstein and Carlton Moss."About Arstein little is known, but Carlton Moss was one of the few African American screenwriters and directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood.Like Lena Horne he became fed up with the limited options for black talent in the movies, and eventually left the system.Lena Horne also walked out on a studio contract (with MGM) that relegated her to performing as a nightclub singer in dramatic or comic scenes in which white people, the main stars, would visit a club and see Lena Horne singing.

One feels also that Horne's social passions grew and grew as the 40s wore on, and it became politically dangerous for her to stay in the system.She would have been blacklisted methinks, so she cut her losses."In Person" walks a thin line; on the one hand, it's Lena explaining to her black audiences why she quit MGM, but on the other hand she doesn't want to offend individual white people.And on top of that she has to explain to both groups why she has just entered into what they called then a "mixed marriage" by aligning herself with the white musician Lennie Hayton.She explains that it was a marriage not even legal in the state of California at the time!

The book shows her growth as a human being, traumatized by racial and class divisions that paralyzed her for decades.She was from a middle class black background but financial reverses saw her look for the only work she could, in clubs and on the stage (her picture of the Cotton Club is superb), but she felt guilty and sinful for doing so because it was a profession not much removed from the streets.Later she grew pride in her work.In a parallel development, she was afraid and resentful of all whites until the activist and singer Paul Robeson taught her that not all whites are evil.At that point she was working at the revolutionary NY club "Café Society Downtown" for impresario Barney Josephson, who sat blacks and whites together which was a radical innovation.She certainly "outs" Billy Strayhorn here as a "confirmed bachelor" and even in 1950 she must have known what that conveyed.I thought she was supposed to be so protective of her best friend?I wonder what Lena Horne is really like; she's so tentative in this book that one feels she's still hiding something, but I guess only time will tell. ... Read more

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Chapters: Wild Side Story, Showtune, a Thurber Carnival, the Billy Barnes Revue, Lena Horne: the Lady and Her Music, Lend an Ear, Oh! Calcutta!, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Putting It Together, New Faces of 1952, A... My Name Is Alice, the Look of Love, Capping Show, Hitchy-Koo, London Calling!, Beatlemania, Inside U.s.a., Hellzapoppin', Words and Music, the Band Wagon, Cambridge Footlights Revue, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, at the Drop of a Hat, the Garrick Gaieties, John Murray Anderson's Almanac, as Thousands Cheer, the Little Show, in at the Death, Pins and Needles, Jerry's Girls, Back to Bacharach and David, American Composer Series, Two's Company, Set to Music, Alive and Kicking, an Evening With Jerry Herman, Medleys, University of Melbourne Medical Revue, Life Begins at 8:40, Boobs! the Musical, at Home Abroad, Infinite Joy, Walk a Little Faster, Two for the Show, a Grand Night for Singing, Call Me Mister, a Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the Second Little Show, Sweet and Low, Flying Colors, Two on the Aisle, Bright Lights of 1944, Foxy Ladies Love/boogie 70's Explosion, Keep Off the Grass, le Chauve-Souris, From a to Z. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 269. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wild Side Story is a stage show that originated as an underground happening in Miami Beach, Florida in 1973. From that year until the end of production in 2004, it was performed hundreds of times in Florida, Sweden, California and Spain. This cult stage show was first conceived and created in Miami Beach in 1972 by director Lars Jacob for an underground cast of nine poorly paid performers who were in it for the kicks, using stage names such as Rena Del Rio, Peaches Del Monte, Chiena Chinette, Jessica Kilo, Tom Flavio, Crystal Beed and Aretha Filthy so as not to disclose their actual ide...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19872132 ... Read more

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GLORIA LYNNE---LITTLE BLUE,WAY BEYOND THE HILLS THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE ME ,IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOULENA HORNE ---NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN,BLUES, BLUES,SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD,FRANKIE & JOHNNY ... Read more

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Chapters: Captain Beefheart, Betty Cuthbert, David Lander, Stanley Elkin, Richard Pryor, Clay Walker, Lena Horne, Ann Romney, Annette Funicello, Teri Garr, Lindsay Cooper, Barbara Jordan, Ole Anderson, Tamia, Ronald Takaki, Danny Wallace, Montel Williams, Hal Ketchum, Bill Bradbury, Andrew White, Ronnie Lane, John Hicklenton, David Maclean, Exene Cervenka, Lola Falana, Dave Balon, Christina Amphlett, Duke Pearson, Stanley Knowles, Jonathan Katz, Clive Burr, Benjamin Cohen, Bryan Forbes, Neil Cavuto, Sue Thomas, Kiaran McLaughlin, Grant Krieger, Anthony Milner, Iman Ali, Kelly Sutton, Aaron Solowoniuk, Jim Sweeney, Egon Zimmermann, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Alan Osmond, Richard M. Cohen, Janice Dean, Courtney Taylor, Josef Stiegler, Sydney Ayres,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 273. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Don Van Vliet (pronounced ; born Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941) is an American artist and former songwriter, singer and musician best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo oboe and shehnai. His music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with free jazz, avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition. An iconoclastic mix of complex instrumentation, atonal melodies, and often humorously surreal lyrics, it was crafted through dictatorial control over his musicians and creative vision. During his teen years in Lancaster, California, Van Vliet acquired an eclectic musical taste and formed "a mutually useful but volatile" friendship with Frank Zappa, with whom he sporadically competed an...http://booksllc.net/?id=63283 ... Read more

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Chapters: John C. Calhoun, Lena Horne, Thomas Green Clemson, Fort Hill (Clemson, South Carolina), Floride Calhoun, John E. Colhoun, James Calhoun, William Lowndes Calhoun, Joseph Calhoun, Patrick Calhoun. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Caldwell Calhoun (pronounced ; March 18, 1782 March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun, a brilliant orator and writer, began his political career as a nationalist and proponent of protective tariffs; later, he was a proponent of free trade, states' rights, limited government, and nullification. Calhoun built his reputation as a political theorist by his redefinition of republicanism to include approval of slavery and minority rights. His redefinition was widely accepted in the South and rejected in the North at the time. His defense of slavery became defunct, but his concept of concurrent majority, whereby a minority has the right to object to or perhaps even veto hostile legislation directed against it, has been incorporated into the American value system. A representative leader of the Irish in South Carolina, he served as Vice President under John Quincy Adams and under Andrew Jackson, was the first Vice President to have been born after the American Revolution, and was the first Vice President to resign from office. Calhoun briefly served in the South Carolina legislature. There he wrote legislation making South Carolina the first state to adopt universal suffrage for white men. As a "war hawk" he agitated in Congress for the War of 1812, and as Secretary of War under President James Monroe he reorganized and modernized the war department, building powerful permanent bureauc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=52110 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 565 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more