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The Jazz Tradition by Martin Williams 9780195078169
Booksplease Price: £27.58`The best one-volume history of jazz.' That is how the American Music Guide described the book that Louis Armstrong once said `held ol' Satch spellbound'. A unique blend of history and criticism,... -
What Did the Vikings Do For Me? by Elizabeth Raum 9781406266054
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77From longships to clinker ships to a national assembly, Vikings continue to influence all aspects of contemporary life. Read this book to find out more about how we encounter links to the ancient... -
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78*Featured for World Book Day: Black History Month*"There are so many things I am and can be... There's a whole world waiting for me." Introduce your baby to Black excellence with this lyrical... -
Jazz: A Regional Exploration by Scott Yanow 9780313328718
Booksplease Price: £76.81Many describe jazz asa the one true form of American music. Arising out of the syncopated rhythms of African music, Cajun songs, and Ragtime, jazz evolved in many 'scenes' throughout the country. The... -
Black Bottom Stomp: Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz David A. Jasen 9780415936415
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £52.68Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.About the... -
Relationships Whiz: Facts and Figures About Families, Friends and Feelings by Elizabeth Raum 9781474748117
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.88How many siblings does the average girl your age have? At what age do most girls start dating? How do other girls your age handle friend drama? Find the answers to these questions and more as you try... -
The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas: A History of the First Racially Integrated Hotel-casino by Earnest N. Bracey 9780786439928
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Originally opened in May 1955, the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino quickly rose in popularity as Las Vegas' first racially-integrated hotel and casino. Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong, and other... -
Ella by Diane Richards 9780063338524
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of African American historical fiction that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of... -
Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra by Professor Anna Harwell Celenza 9781316619476
Booksplease Price: £35.47Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War... -
Turn It Up!: Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop by Stephen Cramer 9781950584321
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.97Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to... -
Relationships Whiz: Facts and Figures About Families, Friends and Feelings Elizabeth Raum 9781474748193
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.85How many siblings does the average girl your age have? At what age do most girls start dating? How do other girls your age handle friend drama? Find the answers to these questions and more as you try... -
50 Specialty Libraries of New York City: From Botany to Magic by Terry Ballard 9780081005545
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.97Everyone knows that New York maintains one of the great library systems in the world - the two lions that guard the 42nd street library among the most important icons in the city. Less well known are... -
Jimmy Katz: Closed Session by Marco Pierini 9788836643790
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.65"The style that Jimmy Katz has developed over the years has become a distinctive feature in the iconography of jazz photography, comparable to the tone of Louis Armstrong's trumpet or the sound of... -
At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz by Darren Mueller 9781478025818
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14In At the Vanguard of Vinyl Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP’s increased... -
Where Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? by Yona Z. McDonough
Booksplease Price: £5.59Explore the most amazing wonders of the ancient world!More than 2,000 years ago, travelers wrote about the incredible sights they saw while on their journeys. They told tales of hanging gardens that... -
Jazz: the Basics by Christopher Meeder
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Jazz: The Basics gives a brief introduction to a century of jazz, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style. The heart of the book traces... -
Jazz: the Basics by Christopher Meeder 9780415966931
Booksplease Price: £110.39Jazz: The Basics gives a brief introduction to a century of jazz, ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical style. The heart of the book traces... -
Jazz Musicians of the Early Years, to 1945 David Dicaire 9780786415830
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19The story of the first roughly half century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. Scott Joplin, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington,... -
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert O'Meally 9780231189187
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and... -
New York 60s Sepp Werkmeister 9783777424309
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.23Born in Munich, Sepp Werkmeister has over the course of the last decades made a name for himself as one of Germany's leading jazz photographers. He created insightful black-and-white portraits of all... -
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 3 by Hiromu Arakawa 9781591169253
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Accompanied by their bodyguard, Alex Louis Armstrong, our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend, Winry Rockbell, to fix their battered "auto-mail" bodyparts. Soon their quest for the... -
Foto: Niklaus Stauss by Barbara Stauss 9783906803562
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £42.60Over the course of an extraordinary career spanning six decades, Zurich photographer Niklaus Stauss has portrayed over fifty thousand people in the fields of art, music, theater, opera, literature,... -
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 4 by Hiromu Arakawa 9781591169291
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Accompanied by their bodyguard, Alex Louis Armstrong, our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend, Winry Rockbell, to fix their battered "auto-mail" bodyparts. Soon their quest for the... -
The Beatles And Beyond by Don Short 9781912782345
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Don Short's autobiography is a treasure trove of revealing untold stories and sensations from a showbusiness journalist who became enmeshed in the golden age of entertainment. He was credited with... -
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 5: Hana Yori Dango by Hiromu Arakawa 9781421501758
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Accompanied by their bodyguard, Alex Louis Armstrong, our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend, Winry Rockbell, to fix their battered "auto-mail" bodyparts. Soon their quest for the... -
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz by Jeffrey Magee 9780195090222
Booksplease Price: £31.75If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Not only did Henderson arrange the music that powered Goodman's meteoric rise, he also helped launch... -
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum,... -
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 6 by Hiromu Arakawa 9781421503196
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Accompanied by their bodyguard, Alex Louis Armstrong, our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend, Winry Rockbell, to fix their battered "auto-mail" bodyparts. Soon their quest for the... -
Who Was Sojourner Truth? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.96Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was... -
Jazz Journey: A Guide For Listening by John Valerio
Booksplease Price: £63.47This edition of Jazz Journey covers jazz from its 19th Century forerunners through the 20th century. This jazz journey takes the reader and listener on an historical audio and video tour of some of... -
Body And Soul: The Making Of American Modernism by Robert M. Crunden 9780465014859
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.38In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term "Jazz Age," we... -
Louisiana Music: A Journey From R&B To Zydeco, Jazz To Country, Blues To Gospel, Cajun Music To Swamp Pop To Carnival Music And Beyond by Rick Koster 9780306810039
Booksplease Price: £17.57What is it about Louisiana that breeds and attracts musicians? There are literally hundreds of them,Dr. John, Harry Connick, Jr., Randy Newman, Trent Reznor, the Neville family, the Marsalis... -
What Was the Harlem Renaissance? by Sherri L. Smith 9780593225905
Booksplease Price: £5.90In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s... -
The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music by William Farina 9780786468638
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us. During the 20th century, its most prominent American exponents were the Germans Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya,... -
The A to Z of African-American Television by Kathleen Fearn-Banks 9780810868328
Booksplease Price: £52.00From Amos 'n' Andy to The Jeffersons to Family Matters to Chappelle's Show, this volume covers it all with entries on all different genres-animation, documentaries, sitcoms, sports, talk shows, and... -
In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz by Donald M. Marquis 9780807130933
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.86The beginnings of jazz and the story of Charles ""Buddy"" Bolden (1877- 1931) are inextricably intertwined. Just after the turn of the century, New Orleanians could often hear Bolden's powerful horn... -
Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz by John McCusker 9781617036262
Booksplease Price: £37.44Edward ""Kid"" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a... -
Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema by Krin Gabbard 9780226277899
Booksplease Price: £30.73American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity,... -
An Introduction to Black Studies by Eric R Jackson 9781985902794
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £21.50For years, the American public education system has neglected to fully examine and discuss the rich history of people of African descent, who have played a pivotal role in the transformation of the... -
Ultimate Piano Solos by Various
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.39Ultimate Piano Solos presents over 50 best-selling piano solos collected together for the first time in one book. Suitable for the intermediate piano player, it includes must-have Classical pieces...