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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The untold story of the world's longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-Z, Nas and Mary J. Blige before they hit it big. Host Ralph McDaniels' archives amassed over 40 nearly years reveal the show's importance to numerous big-name musicians, as well as to the kids that grew up watching.
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Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xv, 527 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
This comprehensive guide tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and includes a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. The author draws on his deep personal experience with jazz music to outline the history and significance of the compositions and tell how they have been performed by different generations of jazz artists.
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Formats
Description
When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own a good camera, didn't know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone. Could he pull it off? In a captivating collection of poems, Roxane Orgill steps into the frame of Harlem...
8) Swing set
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (34:18) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jazzy Ash and her band the Leaping Lizards present fourteen songs that represent and celebrate music created by African-American children, adults, and musicians from the mid-1800s to the early jazz era, including fresh takes on sassy playground clapping songs, soulful lullabies, and classic New Orleans melodies.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
5 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (138 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 28 cm) + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
Description
A musical history of America's Africans, including African tribal songs, slave call and response, work songs, spirituals, minstrel songs, blues, and more. Includes a lavishly illustrated book on the history of African American music, and a DVD about the production of this groundbreaking work.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jesus Rocked the Jukebox offers a spirited celebration of some of the most foundational songs in American musical history, tracing the evolution of the modern Soul, R&B, and Rock n' Roll genres via the likes of The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Swan Silvertones, The Staple Singers, Sam Cooke, and The Chosen Gospel Singers featuring Lou Rawls. Includes in-depth liner notes by noted gospel scholar and historian Bob Marovich.
11) Wattstax
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock,' held on the anniversary of 1965 Watts Riot, and had 100,000 in attendance.
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