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14 reviews
Francesca Lia Block

ATOM, 2003

Doesn't get better than this...
I love everything Francesca Lia Block has written (except maybe The Hanged Man), but this one has to be my favorite. I could read it forever. Aboslutely heartbreaking and soul-wrenching. Dirk and Duck were my favorites in the Weetzie Bat series, and this was the story I always wanted to hear, exactly the way and wanted to hear it.

Essentials for the Be Bop Drummer

1 review
Artt Frank

Schaffner Press, 2005

The Real Deal
Be-Bop drummer Artt Frank is a one of a kind, so too, is his book "Essentials for the Be-Bop drummer". You will find no technical exercises, no RRLL stickings... in other words, no "drumnastics". You will find MUSIC. So many times, we aspiring jazz drummers hear vague musical advice from our teachers: "Be musical" "Use dynamics" "Listen". But specifically, how? When? Where? Artt Frank tells you, ...

Cubano Be Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba

2 reviews
Leonardo Acosta

Smithsonian Books, 2003

Essential Starter
I have yet to finish reading this book, but it was referenced several times in my Afro-Cuban Jazz class so I bought it. If it was good enough for my very critical teacher/musician, it's good enough for me. :)

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (Live Oak Music Makers)

24 reviews
Richard Allen

Live Oak Media, 2001

How can overshoes have feet?
I am an elementary school music teacher with students ranging from pre-K to 5th grade. I read this book to all of my pre-K and kindergarten through second grade classes and sometimes the mood strikes me to read it to older students. There is something in here for most every age. Everyone loves it. So why does Raschka draw chicken feet in such odd places, e.g., on overshoes, alphabet letters, ...

Be-Bop, Re-Bop

1 review
Xam Wilson Cartier

Ballantine Books, 1990

cool as Miles, warm as Ella
this book was a serendipitous find. I picked it up at a fleamarket for a quarter. It was a deligtful discovery. Ms.(?) Cartier is a clever, gifted writer. The narrative is fast-paced and swift. There are many surprising wordplays in this book. I found myself stopping to smile at her use of language. This is a jazz novel par excellence. She introduces Double and Vole through their ...

Be Bop a Lula'r Delyn Aur
Hefin Wyn

Y Lolfa, 2002

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
CHRIS RASCHKA, 1992

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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo.(Cuban Music from A to Z)(Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One ...
David F. Garcia

Thomson Gale, 2005

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