Scott Gillespie's Books

Like Dizzy Gillespie's Cheeks

By: Scott Smith

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LIKE DIZZY GILLESPIE'S CHEEKS, is a humorous glimpse into the life of an unmotivated, Chicago Jazz Pianist who is stuck playing dingy bars, museum benefits and Nordstrom's half-yearly sales. As a matter of fact, he'll play at just about any establishment that will hire him. Typically, he can count on his longtime mentor, jazz great Ben Webster, to join him for a late night set on the piano. Irritable and not just because he's in his seventies, Ben leaves the club before playing a single note. The next day, Sam is devastated to learn that his best friend is dead. As a result, Sam's perspective on life takes an abrupt change. He notices how pathetically insignificant ones life can truly be. Stumbling through some interesting yet awkward situations, both funny and sad, including being conflicted about whether he should allow himself to fall in love with Kate Buckley, the reporter trying to get a story about his friend Ben for ESQUIRE, or continue his unhealthy relationship with Liz Brightwater of the Brightwater Marble fortune,Sam realizes that life is happening now. It's admirable to respect the past, but he must also learn to trust his future.

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iUniverse

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0595475299

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9780595475292

Practical Regeneration

Realistic Strategies for Climate Smart Agriculture

By: Scott Gillespie

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Practical Regeneration

Realistic Strategies for Climate Smart Agriculture

By: Scott Gillespie

“To begin evaluating an agricultural system, you’ll need to get to the core ideas and features that actually drive the system to ensure that you have a grounding for best methods and practices.” In his consulting career as an agronomist, and as a lifelong gardener, Scott Gillespie has learned to critically evaluate information before jumping into something new. Particularly in these days of climate-change anxiety, he has seen people choose agricultural systems that seem right on the surface but aren’t actually making a difference. Many times, a new idea is simply a good hypothesis. Early success can mean things get picked up quickly and are applied before they are fully tested. Practical Regeneration starts out broadly talking about what Scott has learned in his garden and from researching and thinking through the claims of regenerative agriculture advocates. It then gets practical in how farmers can think about implementing the main healthy-soil practices such as cover crops and intercropping. The next section covers how they can advance their practice above the basics. The book culminates by looking into the future and examining how farmers can look at profitability in the long term. While based on Scott’s experiences in the prairies of western Canada, the principles can be applied to many areas of the world. Erudite, but entertaining too, Practical Regeneration sifts through the hype to critically evaluate the soil regeneration movement so that its principles can be practically applied helping both the farmer and the climate.

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215

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FriesenPress

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1039188176

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9781039188174

The Birth of Bebop

A Social and Musical History

By: Scott DeVeaux

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The Birth of Bebop

A Social and Musical History

By: Scott DeVeaux

The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz—the birth of bebop—and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment. At the same time, he provides an extraordinary view of the United States in the decades just prior to the civil rights movement. DeVeaux begins with an examination of the Swing Era, focusing particularly on the position of African American musicians. He highlights the role played by tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a "progressive" committed to a vision in which black jazz musicians would find a place in the world commensurate with their skills. He then looks at the young musicians of the early 1940s, including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk, and links issues within the jazz world to other developments on the American scene, including the turmoil during World War II and the pervasive racism of the period. Throughout, DeVeaux places musicians within the context of their professional world, paying close attention to the challenges of making a living as well as of making good music. He shows that bebop was simultaneously an artistic movement, an ideological statement, and a commercial phenomenon. In drawing from the rich oral histories that a living tradition provides, DeVeaux's book resonates with the narratives of individual lives. While The Birth of Bebop is a study in American cultural history and a critical musical inquiry, it is also a fitting homage to bebop and to those who made it possible.

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610

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Univ of California Press

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0520922107

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9780520922105

The Tombstone Tourist

Musicians

By: Scott Stanton

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The Tombstone Tourist

Musicians

By: Scott Stanton

Offers a guide to the shrines, graves, and memorabilia of jazz, blues, country, rhythm and blues, and rock musicians.

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448

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Simon and Schuster

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0743463307

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9780743463300

New York Modern

The Arts and the City

By: William B. Scott,Peter M. Rutkoff

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New York Modern

The Arts and the City

By: William B. Scott,Peter M. Rutkoff

Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, New York Modern documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience.

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476

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JHU Press

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0801867932

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9780801867934

Bebop

By: Scott Yanow

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Bebop

By: Scott Yanow

Presents a history of bebop from its roots in the late 1930s; describes the musicians, bands, and composers who contributed to this style of jazz; and evaluates key bebop recordings.

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406

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879306084

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9780879306083

Lust To Kill

By: Robert Scott

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Lust To Kill

By: Robert Scott

Driven By Rage Sebastian Shaw was a walking time bomb. Office gossip, dirty dishes, the wrong look--anything could set him off. And once it did, nothing stopped the most terrifying killer Oregon police had ever met. . . A Need To Kill Only murder appeased Shaw's fury. But he didn't kill the people who offended him--they were the lucky ones. Instead, he hunted down innocent victims--men, women, teenage beauties--and unleashed his bloody urge to kill...to rape. . .to paint in blood. A Murderer's Boast

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363

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Pinnacle Books

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0786026596

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9780786026593

Three Finger

The Mordecai Brown Story

By: Cindy Thomson,Scott Brown

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Three Finger

The Mordecai Brown Story

By: Cindy Thomson,Scott Brown

On October 8, 1908, Mordecai Brown clutched a half-dozen notes inside his coat pocket. The message of each was clear: We’ll kill you if you pitch and beat the Giants. A black handprint marked each note, the signature of the Italian Mafia. Mordecai Brown—dubbed “Three Finger” because of a childhood farm injury—was the dominant pitcher for the great Chicago Cubs team of the early twentieth century, a team that from 1906 through 1910 was arguably the best in baseball history. Brown’s handicap enabled him to throw pitches with an unconventional movement that left batters bewildered—the curve ball that Ty Cobb once called “the most devastating” he had ever faced. How Brown responded to the Mafia’s threats in 1908 mirrored the way he took life in general: with unflappable courage and resolve. Telling his story for the first time, Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown trail Mordecai from the Indiana countryside to the coal mines, from semipro ball to the Majors, from the World Series mound back down to the Minors. Along the way they retrieve the lost lore of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers—and chronicle one man’s determination to reach a dream that most believed was unreachable.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803244487

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9780803244481

History of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania

By: K.M. Scott

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History of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania

By: K.M. Scott

With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers.

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881

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Рипол Классик

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5882464404

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9785882464409

This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise (1920) is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published at the very beginning of Fitzgerald’s career as a leading writer of American fiction, This Side of Paradise was a resounding critical and commercial success, allowing him to marry his young love Zelda Sayre. The novel is a semi-autobiographical study of youthful ambition, disillusioned romance, and a generation scarred by war. Amory Blaine is a young man from the Midwest with great ambitions and unfocused talent. He attends Princeton University, where he excels as a student and writer while keeping up a romantic correspondence with Isabelle Borgé, a girl from his youth. Greatly anticipating her arrival in Princeton, Blaine reunites with her one last time for a university prom, where he realizes whatever love they once shared has now been lost. Despairing, Blaine enlists in the army and is sent overseas to fight in the First World War. When he returns, he takes up a position as a copywriter at a New York City advertising agency, falls for the beautiful debutante Rosalind Connage, a quickly finds himself spiraling into self-doubt and out of control. This Side of Paradise is a tragic story of unrealized potential in a young man willing to meet the world head-on without ever looking at himself. Upon publication, Fitzgerald’s debut marked the beginning of a promising career as one of twentieth century America’s finest writers of fiction. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise is a classic work of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

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198

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Graphic Arts Books

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1513286811

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9781513286815

Jim Crow Wisdom

By: Jonathan Scott Holloway

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Jim Crow Wisdom

By: Jonathan Scott Holloway

Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940

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UNC Press Books

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1469610701

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9781469610702

This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgeralds cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of young Amory Blaineegoistic, versatile, callow, imaginative. As Amory makes his way among debutantes and Princeton undergraduates, we enter an environment heady with the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America after World War I. We experience Amorys sailing hopes, crushing defeats, deep loves and stubborn losses. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood unfolds with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgeralds remarkable formal inventiveness couches Amorys narrative among songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. The novels freshness and vervepraised upon publication, now renowned by historyonly heighten the sense that the world being described is our own, modern world.Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking.

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3985946639

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9783985946631

This Side of Paradise

By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise

By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of young Amory Blaine—egoistic, versatile, callow, imaginative. As Amory makes his way among debutantes and Princeton undergraduates, we enter an environment heady with the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America after World War I. We experience Amory's sailing hopes, crushing defeats, deep loves and stubborn losses. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood unfolds with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald's remarkable formal inventiveness couches Amory's narrative among songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. The novel's freshness and verve—praised upon publication, now renowned by history—only heighten the sense that the world being described is our own, modern world.

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tredition

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3347634756

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9783347634756

This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition

By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition

By: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This carefully crafted ebook: “This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti. The book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. The novel was an overnight success and shot Fitzgerald to instant stardom as dauphin of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking. Most of the characters are drawn directly from Fitzgerald's own life. This edition is based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

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8026802454

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Book's by Scott Gillespie

Like Dizzy Gillespie's Cheeks

Like Dizzy Gillespie's Cheeks

Practical Regeneration

Practical Regeneration

The Birth of Bebop

The Birth of Bebop

The Tombstone Tourist

The Tombstone Tourist

New York Modern

New York Modern

Bebop

Bebop

Lust To Kill

Lust To Kill

Three Finger

Three Finger

History of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania

History of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania

This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

Jim Crow Wisdom

Jim Crow Wisdom

This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition

This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition

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