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Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties

by Kam Williams

Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties Kam Williams Article Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties The Sound of Mil...

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Miles and Me

by Paige Turner

Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...

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Miles: The Autobiography

by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe

Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe 9780671725822 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American mus...

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Miles and Me

by Quincy Troupe

Miles and Me Quincy Troupe 9780520216242 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portr...

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Miles Davis and American Culture

by Gerald L. Early

Miles Davis and American Culture Gerald L. Early 9781883982386 Nonfiction Missouri History Museum Press University of Chicago Press Miles Davis and American Culture examines Davis in cultural context....

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Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe

Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Miles Davis, renowned jazz musician, and Quincy Troupe, acclaimed author, captured on photo by Jon Stevens. Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe (Photo by Jon Steve...

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Miles Davis

Miles Davis 000000012144707X Miles Davis (1926-1991) was a transformative American jazz musician and composer. Known for his work as a trumpeter and bandleader, he pioneered numerous jazz sub-genres,...

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Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound

by Kathleen Cornell Berman

Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound Kathleen Cornell Berman 9781624146909 Nonfiction Page Street Kids Page Street Publishing Miles can’t sleep.Taps his toes, snaps his finger...

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Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

by Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington

Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington 9780312327859 Nonfiction Thomas Dunne Books Macmillan Pub...

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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

by James Kaplan

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan 9780525561002 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the author of the definitive biograp...

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ErranaçIties

by Quincy Troupe

ErranaçIties Quincy Troupe 9781566892834 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smok...

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Quincy Troupe

Quincy Troupe 0000000376418772 Quincy Troupe, born in 1939, is an award-winning author, recognized for his poetry, children's books, and non-fiction works. His notable titles include a memoir of Earl...

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Blue in Green

by Wesley Brown

Blue in Green Wesley Brown 9781953691118 Fiction Blank Forms Editions Blank Forms The latest work from the veteran novelist called “one hell of a writer” by James Baldwin and “wonderfully wry” by Dona...

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Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson

by Robert Fleming

Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson Robert Fleming Book Review When I was a teen sweeping sawdust at the butchery, where I worked after school hours, my uncle hipped me to jazz and Bird, Monk, Prez, and La...

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Duende

by Robert Fleming

Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...

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Duende: Poems, 1966—Now

by Quincy Troupe

Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...

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Keith Henry Brown

Keith Henry Brown NONE Keith Henry Brown, illustrator of 'Birth of the Cool', began his career drawing superheroes and later combined his love for art and jazz as Lincoln Center's creative director. ...

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Choruses: Poems

by Quincy Troupe

Choruses: Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566890908 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogue...

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Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness

by Rebecca Walker

Black Cool: One Thousand Streams Of Blackness Rebecca Walker 9781593764173 Nonfiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the ef...

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Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Borzoi Books)

by Wil Haygood

Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Borzoi Books) Wil Haygood 9781400044979 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The ...

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Blue in Green

by Robert Fleming

Blue in Green Robert Fleming Book Review On August 25, 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis escorts a white girl to a cab, lights a cigarette outside Birdland, and a city policeman harasses the black man...

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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

by Greg Tate

Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America Greg Tate 9780374394608 Nonfiction AUWA Books Macmillan Publishers A reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a ...

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How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America

by Kwame Alexander

How Sweet the Sound: A Soundtrack for America Kwame Alexander 9780316442497 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Featuring artists ranging from Miles Davis to Kendrick Lam...

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Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

by Aidan Levy

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins Aidan Levy 9780306902802 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and compose...

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Fat Time and Other Stories

by Jeffery Renard Allen

Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fa...

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Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

by Cody Keenan

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America Cody Keenan 9780358651895 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A New York Times Bestseller “At a time when the meaning of...

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Harlem 69: The Future of Soul

by Stuart Cosgrove

Harlem 69: The Future of Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974205 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 3 in The Soul Trilogy Harlem, 1969, and the vibrant community around 125th Street is rife with creative inn...

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Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful

by Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite

Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful Tanisha C. Ford, Deborah Willis, and Kwame Brathwaite 9781597114431 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books “From Beyoncé to Barack Obama, it’s hard to thi...

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Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews

by Nathaniel Mackey

Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews Nathaniel Mackey 9781609385835 Nonfiction University of Iowa Press University of Iowa Press Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interre...

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How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style

by Constance White

How to Slay: Inspiration from the Queens and Kings of Black Style Constance White 9780847861385 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications An inspirational journe...

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A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country

by Jabari Asim

A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country Jabari Asim 9780316436427 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Jabari As...

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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

by Greg Tate

Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Greg Tate 9780822361800 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate h...

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Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation

by Robert J. Norrell

Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation Robert J. Norrell 9781137279606 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author...

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From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780692370711 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History conveys t...

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Mud Cloth Roots

by V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu

Mud Cloth Roots V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu 9781507592694 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Celebrating their 25th anniversary as Straight Out Scribes, the mother/daughter dynamic poetry duo ...

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James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

by James Baldwin

James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...

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Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807576502 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Take a walk through Harlem’s Sugar Hill and meet all the am...

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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

by Terry Teachout

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Terry Teachout 9781592407491 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong ...

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Jazz Covers

by Joaquim Paulo

Jazz Covers Joaquim Paulo 9783836524063 Nonfiction Taschen Taschen Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of Jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creati...

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Dead Beats

by Sam Cornish

Dead Beats Sam Cornish 9780979531361 Poetry Ibbetson Street Press Ibbetson Street Press Starting with Allen Ginsberg and ending with Charlie Parker, Sam Cornish takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of...

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Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music

by Amiri Baraka

Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...

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Making The Hook-Up: Edgy Sex With Soul

by Cole Riley

Making The Hook-Up: Edgy Sex With Soul Cole Riley 9781573443838 Nonfiction Cleis Press Cleis Press Making the Hook-Up heats up the pages with characters from every walk of life who get in where they f...

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Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music

by Amiri Baraka

Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...

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Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)

by Leo and Diane Dillon

Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book) Leo and Diane Dillon 9780590478939 Nonfiction The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. Celebrated illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon have won the Cald...

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Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)

by Terrance Hayes

Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets) Terrance Hayes 9780143036869 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award...

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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

by Robert G. O’Meally

Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...

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A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues

by Terrie Williams

A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues Terrie Williams 9780446691208 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Forewords by Iyanla Vanzant and...

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Chaka! Through the Fire

by Chaka Khan and Tonya Bolden

Chaka! Through the Fire Chaka Khan and Tonya Bolden 9781579548261 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books Rolling Stone compared it to melted caramel, and Miles Davis compared it to his horn. Chaka Khan’...

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Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems

by Quincy Troupe

Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566891356 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Qu...

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Travelling Mercies

by Lorna Goodison

Travelling Mercies Lorna Goodison 9780771033827 Poetry McClelland & Stewart Penguin Random House At the heart of acclaimed poet Lorna Goodison’s seventh book of poetry – her first published in Canada ...

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Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives

by Stanley Crouch

Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives Stanley Crouch 9780375701689 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House   As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically conten...

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Eulogies

by Amiri Baraka

Eulogies Amiri Baraka 9781568860077 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers eulogies for James Baldwin, Miles Davis, many more

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Deals with the Devil

by Pearl Cleage

Deals with the Devil Pearl Cleage 9780345382788 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House "Pearl Cleage breaks down for sisters all the old rules and unspoken taboos. She tells us the truths our m...

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Kwasi Ramsey

Kwasi Ramsey NONE Baltimore-born author Kwasi Ramsey, winner of the CLA Margaret Walker and Red Sparrow Poetry Awards, is inspired by poets like Amiri Baraka and musicians such as Tupac Shakur. Kwasi...

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Robert Fleming

Robert Fleming 0000000073689743 Support Robert Fleming’s Dialysis Journey Interested in psychology and sociology, I came to writing as a fluke in the early 1970s when a friend, Willard Je...

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Read Until You Understand

by Robert Fleming

Read Until You Understand Robert Fleming Book Review With a solid array of books to her credit, Farah Jasmine Griffin has possibly written one of the artistic highlights in the national book marketpl...

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Deval Patrick - The “A Reason to Believe” Interview

by Kam Williams

Deval Patrick - The “A Reason to Believe” Interview Kam Williams Interview Reflections on Going from the Ghetto to Governor's Office Deval Laurdine Patrick was born on July 31, 1956 in Chicag...

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