This second edition will feature new anecdotes involving Benny Goodman, Billy Taylor, Jackie Gleason, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and many more as well as a new foreword by Crow. "Read this somewhere where you're not afraid to be seen laughing out loud...Everyone should be able to find something to like in this rich collection." - "Library ...
New York in the 1950s. On the stage at Birdland is the midget master of ceremonies, 3'9" Pee Wee Marquette, dressed in a zoot suit and loud tie, smoking a huge cigar and screeching mispronounced introductions into the microphone. Pee Wee is just one of the many characters that have made Bill Crow's forty years in jazz seem like an instant. In the ...
Drawing on interviews, biographies and the archives of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, this collection of essays provides portraits of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Eddie Condon. Ranging from stage fright to stardom, racism ...
Today's customer service encompasses much more than just point-of-sale activities. This book introduces readers to the new concept of total customer service, applying it to all business areas from customer interactions and relationships to the actual sales process.
This interactive CD-ROM with accompanying booklet, is designed to help students develop skills in music whilst covering the National Curriculum requirements for ITC. It is organized by theme, with 4-5 topics in each theme. The activities are arranged in order of progression, with extension activities at the end of each topic, to stretch the more ...
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