Tick, Judith
Summary: A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITZGERALD, ELLA TICContents: disc 1. Lullabye of birdland ; All of me ; Lover man ; Over the rainbow ; Autumn in New York ; My heart stood still (Sarah Vaughan). Caravan ; Ain't misbehavin' ; Is you is or is you ain't my baby ; Smoke gets in your eyes ; I get a kick out of you ; Stormy weather (Dinah Washington) -- disc 2. A foggy day ; I've got my love to keep me warm ; God bless the child ; Too marvelous for words ; I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GSC Music 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL GRECrouch, Stanley.
Summary: "Carla is a talented jazz singer nearing forty. Maxwell is a renowned tenor saxophonist, the man Carla deeply loves and wants to marry. But Maxwell, who is black, finds himself increasingly at odds with the notion of lifelong togetherness with a white woman, as he yields to group pressure. While they are visiting his parents (whom Carla hopes to win over in her struggle to keep Maxwell in her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROSchreck, Karen Halvorsen
Summary: When Rose becomes a singer at a jazz club, she finds herself falling for the African American pianist and the two begin a relationship marked by prejudice and faith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHHare, Louise
Summary: "A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARSummary: Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic LoveSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010