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Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South .
Some other music publishers also apply the term Real Book to their own publications. The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music publishes The AB Real Book. [7] Alfred Publishing Co. has several Real Books. [8] Sher Music Co. publishes The New Real Book, in 3 volumes. [9] The collection of tunes differs from that of the original Real Book.
In the 1950s the Modern Jazz Fake Book, Volumes 1 and 2 was issued, and Fake Book Volume 3, containing about 500 songs, came out in 1961. The music in Fake Books 1, 2, and 3 was photocopied or reset with a musical typewriter from the melody lines of the original sheet music. Usually chord symbols, titles, composer names, and lyrics were ...
Longtime prop house owner Marc Meyer, widely considered a pioneer of the fake book, is fighting to save his 'life's work,' Faux Library.
Young Man with a Horn is a 1938 novel by Dorothy Baker that is loosely based on the real life of jazz cornet player Bix Beiderbecke.The novel was adapted for the movie Young Man with a Horn (1950) with Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall, Juano Hernández, and real-life Bix Beiderbecke friend and collaborator Hoagy Carmichael
Half-Blood Blues (styled without the hyphen in the UK edition) is a fiction novel by Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, and first published in June 2011 by Serpent’s Tail.The book's dual narrative centers around Sidney "Sid" Griffiths, a journeyman jazz bassist.
"I Am Jazz," a book chronicling the experience of a trans child, co-written by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel, continues to be banned by school districts. But its co-author says its message is ...
Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and is partly set in Slaughter, Louisiana. It covers the last months of Bolden's sanity in ...