The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz & Pop Singers now approaches the great singers & their greatest work in an innovative & revelatory way through considering their finest albums which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized & presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra Peggy Lee Sarah Vaughan Nat King Cole Judy Garland & the rest of the glorious honor roll of jazz & pop singers have been most tellingly & lastingly appreciated & the history of the album itself as Will Friedwald sketches it can now be seen as a crucial part of musical history We come to understand that at their finest albums have not been mere collections of individual songs strung together arbitrarily but organic phenomena in their own right A Sinatra album a Fitzgerald album was planned & structured to show these artists at their best at a specific moment in their artistic careers Yet the albums Friedwald has chosen to anatomize go about their work in a variety of ways There are studio & solo albums Lee's Black Coffee June Christy's Something Cool Cassandra Wilson's Belly of the Sun There are brilliant collaborations famous ones--Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson--and wonderful surprises like Doris Day & Robert Goulet singing Annie Get Your Gun There are theme albums--Dinah Washington singing Fats Waller Maxine Sullivan singing Andy Razaf Margaret Whiting singing Jerome Kern Barb Jungr singing Bob Dylan & the sublime Jo Stafford singing American & Scottish folk songs There are also stunning concert albums like Ella in Berlin Sarah in Japan Lena at the Waldorf & of course Judy at Carnegie Hall All the greats are on hand from Kay Starr & Carmen Mc Rae to Jimmy Scott & Della Reese (Della Della Cha Cha Cha) & from out of left field the astounding God Bless Tiny Tim Each of the fifty-seven albums discussed here captures the artist at a high point if not at the expected moment of her or his career The individual cuts are evaluated the sequencing explicated the songs & songwriters heralded; anecdotes abound of how songs were born & how artists & producers collaborated & in appraising each album Friedwald balances his own opinions with those of musicians listeners & critics A monumental achievement The Great Jazz & Pop Vocal Albums is an essential book for lovers of American jazz & popular music ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The story of Dr WT Morgan the 19th century dentist who discovered anesthesia Actors Harry Carey & Betty Field Director Preston Sturges Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1944 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Mono Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 18 minutes (approx)
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An exploration of human identity from both scientific & religious perspectives from bestselling author & Andreas Idreos Professor of Science & Religion at Oxford University Alister Mc Grath 256 pages Mc Grath Alister DPhil DD ...

The oft-told story of the rise & fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAIDWith meticulous attention to detail the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade the September 7 1876 robbery of the biggest bank west of the Mississippi in Northfield MN Cliff Robertson plays Cole Younger & Robert Duvall appears as Jesse James herein depicted as a pair of vengeance-driven sociopaths but no worse than the greedy railroad magnates who've driven them into a life of crime Younger is also quite the manipulator convincing the immigrant farmers of Northfield that the bank is completely impervious to robbery thereby increasing the deposits that he intends to steal Duvall's Jesse James is a cold-blooded murderer but like Younger not without his own personal charm ...

The outdoor market has never been hotter This easy introduction to outdoor life will ensure that even a novice won't get lost in the woods while finding an activity he loves to do in the great outdoors
- whether it's hiking a 14er or camping on ice With 400 strategies for engaging in the outdoors & expert tips & tricks The Great Outdoors A User's Guide makes Mother Nature easier to understand than ever before Brendan Leonard writer filmmaker & outdoor adventurer shows the reader how rewarding it can be to live life away from the computer & get outside From mountain climbing to skiing sledding & sailing Leonard shows that you don't need to be a risk taker to enjoy the outdoors & if the reader does find himself at the point of man vs nature Leonard shares survival skills from how to bandage a wound & read a topographical map to how to drive on sand & remove a tick from your skin Organised thematically & written in short takeaway entries with line drawings The Great Outdoors A User's Guide is a friendly way into the outdoor lifestyle for those who want to dabble or go all in
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This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research & on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed & considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis Reviews of the first edition A riveting book on this terrible story-Economist Unsparing Provocative & painful-Times (London) Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers Yasmin Khan's empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes dreams & fears of the millions affected by it-Owen Bennett Jones BBC ...

The Great Plague is a thrilling story of a young girl during the epidemic of 1665 It's 1665 & Alice is looking forward to being back in London But the plague is spreading quickly & as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors When her aunt is struck down with the plague she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever Alice's chilling diary brings alive one of the darkest moments in British history the Great Plague of 1665-1666 ...

Celebrate Chinese New Year & learn how every animal earned its place in the Chinese zodiac by taking part in the Great Race! Discover who will come first to win the ultimate prize & find out why Cat will never forgive his friend Rat in this ancient folk tale that has been passed from generation to generation Praise for Deep in the Woods the previous title from Christopher Corr ' the book looks like a delectable candy box There is a lesson here
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- but the book never feels plodding or pedantic Which may be why the lesson just goes down like the truth'

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play War drama based on the novel & The Great Raid on Cabanatuan& by William B Breuer It stars Benjamin Bratt as Lt Colonel Mucci an offbeat military man who puts his faith in young Captain Prince (James Franco) to lead a dangerous mission to rescue 500 American POWs held prisoner by the Japanese Among the men imprisoned in the camp are Joseph Fiennes as the ailing Major Gibson & Marton Csokas as Captain Redding who is always trying to escape Connie Nielsen adds romantic tension as a war widow smuggling much-needed medicine into the camp ...

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic & much-loved homage to train travel The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail from Jaipur; the Golden Arrow of Kuala; the Trans-Siberian Express; these are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India & Asia This was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies a time before the West had embraced the places peoples food faiths & cultures of the East For us now as much as for Theroux then to visit the lands of The Great Railway Bazaar is an encounter with all that is truly foreign & exotic
- & with what we have since lost Praise for Paul Theroux' Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer' One needs energy to keep up with the extraordinary productive restlessness of Paul Theroux He is the most gifted most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan Raban' Always a terrific teller of tales & conjurer of exotic locales he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling pace' Sunday Times Paul Theroux's books include Dark Star Safari Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Riding the Iron Rooster The Great Railway Bazaar The Elephanta Suite A Dead Hand The Tao of Travel & The Lower River The Mosquito Coast & Dr Slaughter have both been made into successful films Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod & the Hawaiian islands
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