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The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles

By: Steve Isoardi

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The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles

By: Steve Isoardi

Isoardi has done a wonderful job collecting oral histories and integrating them into an engaging, sophisticated, and highly readable book. He provides great insight into the artistic goals, political aspirations, internal conflicts, and social terrain that shaped the experiences of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He shows us quite clearly that jazz musicians continued to work within and gain sustenance from working class black communities long after the moment when some observers deemed the music irrelevant to them."—Eric Porter, author of What Is This Thing Called Jazz? "In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, 'This is one more you wrote through us.' And this is what Steve Isoardi has done here: given voice to the nearly lost history of a revolutionary community movement through its key players. Epic in scope, dazzling in detail and sensual as any Coltrane solo, this rare book—informative, intimate, lyrical, scholarly, nuanced, and essential—reads like no history book you've read before."—Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Becoming Abigail "The Dark Tree is just wonderful. One cannot understand the history of black arts on the West Coast without a thorough assessment of this movement; Isoardi knows this history so well, and tells a much bigger story. The book does a fantastic job of capturing the nitty gritty nature of the music scene, and of resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book."—Robin Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "This is a revelatory document, virtuosically combining scholarship and oral history to connect the dots of African American music on the west coast. Far more than a mere historical 'overdub' of an underdocumented scene, this book disrupts the mythic notions of jazz history, showing instead how music and community unfold as one. Both a celebratory and a cautionary tale, it also delivers some of the most frank and eye-opening musicians' accounts since Arthur Taylor's Notes and Tones."—Vijay Iyer, musician/composer, New York City

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408

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520245911

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9780520245914

Jazz Guide

New York City

By: Steve Dollar

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Jazz Guide

New York City

By: Steve Dollar

This is an indispensable guide for jazz aficionados and those seeking entre into New York's big band, bebop, fusion, and funk scenes. Profiled venues include fabled haunts of Harlem; elegant Midtown supper clubs; hip downtown hangouts; and a subterranean Bowery alcove where the spirit of Mingus rumbles on.

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180

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New York Review of Books

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ISBN 10

189214543X

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9781892145437

Baby Moll

By: John Farris,Steve Brackeen

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Baby Moll

By: John Farris,Steve Brackeen

Unavailable for more than 50 years, this classic noir--written under the pen name Steve Brackeen--is back in print. Former Mob enforcer Peter Mallory finds himself drawn back into a life of crime when his old boss is stalked by a vicious killer. Original.

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228

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Leisure/Wildside

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0843959649

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9780843959642

Baby Moll

By: John Farris,Steve Brackeen

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By: John Farris,Steve Brackeen

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Managing Stress

By: Steve Shores

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Managing Stress

By: Steve Shores

Mindful of the time constraints of everyday living, Ginger Garrett has put together an entire year of juicy discussions and pampering pleasures for mothers and daughters. Using the book of Esther as a springboard for topics such as respect, romance, and confidence, you get to share pieces of not only yourself but of your faith as well.

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100

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1576830837

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9781576830833

Crying for a Vision and Other Essays

The Collected Steve Scott Vol. One

By: Steve Scott,Gord Wilson

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Crying for a Vision and Other Essays

The Collected Steve Scott Vol. One

By: Steve Scott,Gord Wilson

In Crying for a Vision, British-born poet, musician and performance artist Steve Scott offers a challenge to artists and a manifesto for the arts. This new edition includes an introduction and study guide, four newly-collected essays and an interview with the author. Steve Scott is the author of Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Post-modern Culture and The Boundaries. "Steve Scott is a rare individual who combines a deep love and understanding of Scripture with a passion for the arts." -Steve Turner, author of Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster. "Steve Scott links a number of fields of inquiry that are usually perceived as unrelated. In doing so he hopes to open wider possibilities for Christians in the arts, who may perhaps be relieved to find that, in many ways, they were right all along." -Rupert Loydell, author of The Museum of Light. Cover art by Michael Redmond

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148

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AuthorHouse

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1425977448

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9781425977443

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Managing Stress

Managing Stress

Crying for a Vision and Other Essays

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