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The Beiderbecke Affair

Author : William Gallagher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844577325
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Beiderbecke Affair written by William Gallagher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With as little plot as its creator Alan Plater could get away with and as much jazz as he could manage, the 1985 television drama The Beiderbecke Affair had a far-reaching impact, inspiring sequels, novels, albums and even jazz tours. Much like its Bix Beiderbecke-style soundtrack, Plater's quietly joyous drama was unconventional, free: its narrative following the lives and relationships of its leading characters – teachers-turned-amateur detectives Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) and Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) – with a gentle, whimsical humour. William Gallagher's illuminating study is the first critical account of this much-loved series. Drawing on interviews with cast members and musicians, the production team and Yorkshire TV executives, as well as on insights from Plater himself, Gallagher explores Beiderbecke's origins in Plater's 1981 tv drama Get Lost! before moving on to an in-depth analysis of the series itself, to reveal why such an unassuming series remains one of the best-loved examples of British television drama. The book also includes a previously unpublished BBC Radio 4 short story featuring the character of Jill Swinburne, 'A Brief Encounter with Richard Wagner'.

The Beiderbecke Trilogy

Author : Alan Plater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Beiderbecke Trilogy written by Alan Plater and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death and Croissants

Author : Ian Moore
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 172827057X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Death and Croissants written by Ian Moore and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Laugh-out-loud caper." —Shelf Awareness, Starred Review "A fast-paced, witty story for those who enjoy dry British humor." —Library Journal Meet Richard Ainsworth: an almost divorced part time B&B owner, part time film historian, full time self-deprecator. Hoping to continue running his B&B in the quiet Val de Follet, he has no idea of its hidden intrigue, from the mafia to swingers, to the peddling of (il)legal grape seeds. His quiet has flown the coop on a fateful afternoon with a bloody handprint, a missing guest, and one dead Ava Gardner (beloved hen). Death and Croissants is an unputdownable, hilarious mystery perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. What readers are saying: "Richard Osman meets Sherlock Holmes rampaging through the charming Loire Valley in this raucously funny book. I loved it." "A light, very funny mystery with appealing characters in a wonderful French countryside." "Oh wow, this was funny. This one just knocks it out of the park." "A story full of interesting and diverse characters told with lots of humor." "The author gives you everything you want in a humorous, witty mystery that chases you through all the twists and turns with murder, mafia, and mayhem."

The Beiderbecke Connection

Author : Alan Plater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Beiderbecke Connection written by Alan Plater and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective duo Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne are back, complete now with First-Born, a collection of cuddly toys and a child-minder called Yvonne. This third Beiderbecke novel follows The Beiderbecke Affair and The Beiderbecke Tapes.

Talk of Drama

Author : Sean Day-Lewis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860205125
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Talk of Drama written by Sean Day-Lewis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviewes with British television writers

Tree of Smoke

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374279127
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

Shall We Play That One Together?

Author : Paul de Barros
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312558031
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Shall We Play That One Together? written by Paul de Barros and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the UK as Margaret Marian Turner, she was trained in classical piano, yet was passionately attracted to jazz. During World War II she met jazz trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, protege of Biederbecke, married him, and together they made jazz history.

David Bowie Made Me Gay

Author : Darryl W. Bullock
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468316257
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book David Bowie Made Me Gay written by Darryl W. Bullock and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community’s struggle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today.

The Oxford Companion to Jazz

Author : Bill Kirchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195183592
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Jazz written by Bill Kirchner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays cover major historical trends and figures, discuss jazz in different countries, review the role of most instruments and consider the place of jazz in other arts, like dance, literature and film." N.Y. Times Book Rev. "This work is an effective single-volume device, leading current listeners to the music while including enough newer scholarship to retain the interest of connoisseurs." Libr J.

Annual Review of Jazz Studies 11, 2000-2001

Author : Edward Berger
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810845350
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of Jazz Studies 11, 2000-2001 written by Edward Berger and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the rich tradition, this latest Annual is particularly impressive. The articles in this volume present important technical analyses of four major figures: Booker Little, Charlie Christian, Herbie Hancock, and Miles Davis.

Jazz

Author : Stuart Nicholson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780749996
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Jazz written by Stuart Nicholson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner’s Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson takes the reader on an entertaining journey from jazz's early stirrings in America’s south through to the present day, when almost every country in the world has its own vibrant jazz scene. En route we meet a host of jazz heroes past and present, from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Miles Davis, to Keith Jarrett and Kamasi Washington. Each chapter is accompanied by a playlist designed to provide a stimulating and enjoyable entry point to what has been described as the most exciting art form of all.

Pops

Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151010899
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Pops written by Terry Teachout and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain to be the definitive word on Louis Armstrong, "Pops" paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world, and his music. Drawing on a cache of new sources, the author has crafted a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure.

British Television Drama

Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844578968
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book British Television Drama written by Lez Cooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.

Remembering Bix

Author : Ralph Berton
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 : 9780491019514
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Bix written by Ralph Berton and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1974 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bix Beiderbecke, born in 1903 and dead at 28, lives on as perhaps the greatest cornetists in jazz history. The author, a teenage fan of Bix and the younger brother of Vic Berton, Bix's drummer and manager, offers his unique perspective of the music as he tagged along with the band to honky-tonks and jam sessions. Listening from under the piano, Berton heard some of the most extraordinary music, and he brings it alive in this book, which combines the excitement of youth and the perspective of the five decades that followed - decades that confirmed Bix's place in the pantheon of jazz greats.

Snowblind

Author : Robert Sabbag
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197655
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Snowblind written by Robert Sabbag and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the supercharged life of American drug smuggler Zachary Swan. “An extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight” (Rolling Stone). Robbert Sabbag’s Snowblind, the true story of an American smuggler whose intricate, ingenious scams made him a legendary figure in the cocaine world of the late sixties and early seventies, is a modern classic. In this “witty, intelligent, fiercely stylish, drug-induced exemplary tale” (Los Angeles Times), Sabbag masterfully traces Zachary Swan’s Roman-candle career, from his first forays into smuggling marijuana to his jaunts to Colombia to buy pure cocaine, and his ever more elaborate plans to outwit the police and customs officials. Updated by the author, this captivating portrait of a dashing antihero and enthralling look at a turbulent age is sure to reach a new generation of readers. “A flat-out ball buster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank of ether.” —Hunter S. Thompson

Classic Jazz

Author : Floyd Levin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234634
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Classic Jazz written by Floyd Levin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Floyd Levin's half-century collection of reportage, reviews and recollections are an irreplaceable and totally enjoyable trove of writing about the vibrancy, past and still-present, of traditional American jazz."—Charles Champlin, author of Back There Where the Past Was "I've known Floyd and his wife Lucille for more than fifty years. Floyd's book is a colorful, intimate account of his lifelong love affair with jazz. I'm especially fascinated when he writes about his personal encounters with some of the jazz legends of the Century. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about jazz - its present, its past, and his evolution."—Milt Hinton "Floyd Levin's dedicated and unselfish life-long work for the cause of jazz has illuminated many a corner that would otherwise have remained in the dark. All who care about the music are in his debt. Classic Jazz, like Floyd himself, is a classic."—Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University "What a rich, passionate and human book this is! Drawing on fifty years of devotion to classic, New Orleans jazz and the artists who performed it, Floyd Levin brilliantly weaves anecdotal material, primary research, intimate personal observations, and analyses to create an historical goldmine of the music's evolution in New Orleans and on the West Coast. In rendering portraits of legendary musicians in such a beautifully moving, honest way, he offers not just standard history, but a strong sense of the emotional core of the music as well."—Steve Isoardi, co-author of Central Avenue Sounds

Encyclopedia of Television

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135194793
Total Pages : 2732 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television written by Horace Newcomb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 2732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.