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  • At the Jazz Band Ball

    Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene

    by Nat Hentoff ...
    Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—"I’m a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer"—has lived through much of jazz’s history and has known many of jazz’s most important figures, often as friend and confidant. Hentoff has been a tireless advocate for the neglected parts of jazz history, including forgotten sidemen and -women. This volume includes ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

    by Nat Hentoff ...
    Who would have believed that The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn could cause the worst crisis in the history of George Mason High School? Certainly not Barney Roth, editor of the school paper. But when a small but vocal group of students and parents decide that the book is racist, sexist, and immoral--and should be removed from reading lists and the school library--Barney takes matters into his own ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • FIRST FREEDOM

    by Nat Hentoff ...
    A history of free speech in our country from earliest times to some of the controversial court cases of today involving school demonstrations and the right of Nazis to march. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Boston Boy

    Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions

    by Nat Hentoff ...
    Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and is befriended by, the great jazz musicians of the day, including Duke Ellington and Lester Young among ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

    The Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It

    by Nat Shapiro, Nat Hentoff ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: History
    "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." — Charlie Parker"What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling." — Coleman Hawkins"The best sound usually comes the first time you do something. If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz." — Dave BrubeckHere, in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Democracy Detained

    Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror

    by Barbara Olshansky ...
    Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on current shocking practices, from the ... Read more

    $17.19 CAD

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    Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

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  • Chasin the Trane

    by J.C. Thomas ...
    He was always elusive, on and off the stand; like his music, he was constantly moving, incessantly changing. Just as Charlie Parker stood astride the jazz world of the late 40s and 50s, so did John Coltrane in the late 50s and 60s.Trane was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. His music also influenced rock and classical musicians, such as Roger McGuinn and David Amram. Yet he was more ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Robert Cormier: Daring to Disturb the Universe

    by Patty Campbell ...
    Beginning with the publication of The Chocolate War in 1974, and continuing throughout the entirety of his career, Robert Cormier dared to disturb the universe. The moment Jerry Renault refused to sell his first chocolate bar Robert Cormier began a life-long career that would push the boundaries of traditional young adult literature. He would go on to prove again and again that a YA novel could be ... Read more

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  • The Story of Boogie-Woogie

    A Left Hand Like God

    by Peter J. Silvester ...
    The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearances in the barrelhouses of lumber, turpentine, and railroad camps in the southern United States, to its emergence at rent parties in Chicago and St. Louis, to its rise as a popular form of music in the nightclubs of New York, to its status as an ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Thinking in Jazz

    The Infinite Art of Improvisation

    by Paul F. Berliner ...
    A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea.The product of more than fifteen ... Read more

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  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

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