Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions In this comprehensive & unique survey here are the songs that sit at the heart of the jazz repertoire ranging from " Ain't Misbehavin'" & " Autumn in New York" to " God Bless the Child" " How High the Moon" & "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Gioia

Includes:: Broadway show tunes written by such greats as George Gershwin & Irving Berlin & classics by such famed jazz musicians as Miles Davis Thelonious Monk Duke Ellington & John Coltrane The book offers vibrant discussions of each song packed with information about how the song was written who recorded it the song's place in jazz history & much more Gioia

Includes:: recommendations for more than 2000 recordings with a list of suggested tracks for each song Filled with colorful anecdotes & expert commentary The Jazz Standards will appeal to a wide audience serving as a fascinating introduction for new fans an invaluable & long-needed handbook for jazz lovers & musicians & an indispensable reference for students & educators



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' James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ a great American novelist whose work taken individually or as a whole is unsurpassed' Michael Connelly On its surface life in Houston is as you would expect drive-in restaurants souped-up cars jukeboxes teenagers discovering their sexuality But beneath the glitz & superficial normalcy a class war has begun & it is nothing like the conventional portrayal of the decade Against this backdrop Aaron Holland Broussard discovers the poignancy of first love & a world of violence he did not know existed When Aaron spots the beautiful & gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend Grady Harrelson at a Galveston drive-in he inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob & one of the richest families in Texas He also discovers he must find the courage his father had found as an American soldier in the Great War Written in evocative prose The Jealous Kind may prove to be James Lee Burke's most encompassing work yet As Aaron undergoes his harrowing evolution from boy to man we can't help but recall the inspirational & curative power of first love & how far we would go to protect it ...

' It's beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes & what not' says Bertie ' If I had Jeeves's brain I should have a stab at being Prime Minisiter or something' Luckily for us Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeve's services through all the vicissitudes of violet socks & policeman's helmets & here gathered together for the first time is an omnibus of Jeeves novels & stories comprising three of the funniest books ever written Thank You Jeeves The code of the Woosters & The Inimirable Jeeves ...

As always Bertie is about to find himself in the soup (or 'up to the knees in bisque') & Jeeves is poised to pull him out
- quite
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Bertie may be in danger of having his spine severed in five places by that jealous gorilla G D' Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright but as Jeeves insists the priorities still have to be observed & so thanks to Jeeves they are throughout this bumper volume whatever mayhem may be loosed upon the befuddled head & generous heart of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster Gathered in this volume are three of Wodehouse's hilarious Jeeves & Wooster novels Jeeves & the Feudal Spirit Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves & Jeeves in the Offing ...

The thrills continue in this critically acclaimed diesel-punk graphic novel series set in a sci-fi version of the early 20th century! At the beginning of the twentieth century one sixth of the world’s wealth vacationed in & around the tiny Georgia island of Jekyll Captains of industry like Rockefeller Vanderbilt Morgan & Carnegie all called the Jekyll area home Blending elements of historical fact clockwork technology & diesel-punk style The Jekyll Island Chronicles span an age of furious mechanical advancement while exploring the span of man’s soul – whether good or evil In Book Two of this alt-history adventure Peter Helen & the rest of Carnegie’s “ Specials” would like nothing more than to return to normalcy along with the rest of the country–especially after defeating their enemies in Book One But the anarchists have other plans Luigi Galleani & the Zeno cabal reach out from Europe across the Atlantic to wreak havoc divide the enemy build an army & capture plans for the world’s deadliest weapon If they are to be stopped the tiny group of heroes from Jekyll will need to find new resolve new resources & new allies–and do it all before Nikola Tesla’s most terrible creation is unleashed ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This three-disc collection allows Jeremy Clarkson to follow his wildest fantasies as he drives a high-speed heart-stopping collection of some of the most powerful & unusual machines ever built In & Extreme Machines& he travels faster higher & harder than he&s ever been before as he investigates the Apache gunship drives jet boats looks at a Swedish Stealth Battleship rides snowmobiles goes P-51 Mustang racing & gets to fly in an F-16 The series of & Motorworld& looks at what makes a country tick It studies why Italians are passionate Indians crash so often how the Cubans make brake fluid & much more In & Speed& Jeremy is rocketed into the adrenaline-pumping world of fast machines in the most exciting highlights from his TV series in which he sets out to explore both what compels us to pursue these limits
- often at considerable risk to our own safety
- & what effect the quest has on us

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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" That wild & crazy guy Steve Martin makes his film-starring debut in the wacky comedy hit The Jerk Steve plays Navin Johnson the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches right back to rags Steve propels Navin through a string of misadventures becoming smitten with a lady motorcycle racer surviving a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer & becoming a millionaire by inventing the " Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses-and shows why he&s one of the hottest comic performers in the world" Actors Steve Martin Bernadette Peters Catlin Adams Jackie Mason M Emmet Walsh Bill Macy Maurice Evans Mabel King & Richard Ward Director Carl Reiner Certificate 12 years & over Year 1980 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Latin American Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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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 That wild & crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild & crazy comedy hit The Jerk Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches & right back to rags Along the way he&s smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the "opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses
- & shows why he&s the hottest comic performer in America today Actors Steve Martin Bernadette Peters Catlin Adams Jackie Mason M Emmet Walsh Bill Macy Maurice Evans Mabel King & Richard Ward Director Carl Reiner Certificate 15 years & over Year 1979 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital Mono Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian Subtitles English ; French ; German ; Polish ; Czech ; Hungarian ; Turkish ; Swedish ; Finnish ; Dutch ; Norwegian ; Castillian ; Portuguese ; Danish ; Bulgarian Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)

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Joy To The World O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Ryan Molloy Winter Wonderland
- Rick Faugno Little Drummer Boy
- Joseph Leo Bwarie


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