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“mike pinfold”

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  • Louis Armstrong: His Life and Times

    by Mike Pinfold ...
    The life and times of Louis Armstrong ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Louis Armstrong: His Life and Times

    by Mike Pinfold ...
    The biography, life and times of American jazz legend Louis Armstrong. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Bing Crosby

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    Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe. Arguably the most significant musician in the ... Read more

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  • The New Face of Jazz

    An Intimate Look at Today's Living Legends and the Artists of Tomorrow

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  • Gene Krupa: His Life & Times

    by Bruce Crowther ...
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  • African Rhythms

    The Autobiography of Randy Weston

    by Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant ... Read more

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  • Billie Holiday

    The Musician and the Myth

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  • Billie Holiday: Her Life and Times

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  • Pat Metheny

    The ECM Years, 1975-1984

    by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-1984, Mervyn Cooke offers the first in-depth account of Metheny's early creative period, during which he recorded eleven stunningly varied albums for the pioneering European record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music). This impressive body of ... Read more

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