PART IV : PLANET JAZZ Plan lanet Jazz consists of Tracks 12-17 on Turn It Up & Lay It Down . The study of jazz must be under- taken a little differently than the other styles we've seen so far because in jazz the drums play a slightly ...
Author: Joe Bergamini
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 0757937527
Category: Drum set
Page: 84
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Based on the CD series by spencer StrandShe was a small dumpy woman in her sixties, had worked for Madeleine for years. She had a round face that was deeply wrinkled, ... A little oatmeal every morning wouldn't faze her. ... “You can jazz it up a little. Jake won't say so, ...
Author: David Guy
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 9780834826328
Category: Fiction
Page: 224
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Jake is a Zen master and expert bicycle repairman who fixes flats and teaches meditation out of a shop in Bar Harbor, Maine. Hank is his long-time student. The aging Jake hopes that Hank will take over teaching for him. But the commitment-phobic Hank doesn’t feel up to the job, and Jake is beginning to exhibit behavior that looks suspiciously like Alzheimer’s disease. Is a guy with as many "issues" as Hank even capable of being a Zen teacher? And are those paradoxical things Jake keeps doing some kind of koan-like wisdom . . . or just dementia? These and other hard questions confront Hank, Jake, and the colorful cast of characters they meet during a week-long trip to the funky neighborhood of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As they trek back and forth from bar to restaurant to YMCA to Zen Center to doughnut shop, answers arise—in the usual unexpected ways.Was that it? How could I get her to elaborate? Now, in detective movies and books, sometimes a little bribe helps the information flow a little ... Now your hair is thick and a nice shade of dark blond, but I could jazz it up a bit.
Author: Marie-Nicole Ryan
Publisher: Marie-Nicole Ryan
ISBN: 9781507022443
Category: Fiction
Page: 322
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Murder: Guaranteed to ruin a perfect honeymoon. After several days of newlywed bliss, Miranda French, the brand-spanking new Countess of Middlebury and her new husband emerge from an East Anglia inn. She eagerly checks out one of the local antiques shops and stumbles over a body…a mutilated one. The unfortunate victim was known to be a connoisseur of married women, so it’s a good bet one of the ladies’ husbands is the culprit. If there’s any hope of getting back to the “honey” part of her honeymoon, Randi will have to get involved in the investigation. Detective Chief Inspector David French, Earl of Middlebury, has a lot more on his hands than an overly helpful bride, planted DNA, and more suspects than he can comfortably count. Sending Miranda home to the safety of their country estate may be the biggest mistake of his life. The killer’s not finished. She’s next on his hit list.He was a small man named William Flinch, and he had to be in Washington on Monday. This was Saturday morning just getting started, but he was the careful type. Besides, he wanted to jazz it up a little over the week end.
Author: Richard S. Prather
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 9781480498907
Category: Fiction
Page: 355
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"As far as I'm concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes." --Robert J. Randisi For four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private eye collections ever produced. "I'm Shell Scott, the Private Eye. Well, at least I have a private eye when blondes, brunettes or redhead babes are involved, and I can always spot a hot tamale. You can see why I love my work, and when I heard that Chester Drum was operating my own game on the East Coast, I was in for some ride. There's only room enough for one and Drum was working on my turf." Honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America! "(Shell Scott is) as amusingly blithe a figure as the field has seen since the Saint." --Anthony Boucher Double in Trouble is the 20th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.Davis liked jazz. He would say to Gorky, 'jazz it up a little, Gorky! jazz it up a little!' Gorky could sing and snap his fingers and dance, he could do that in the middle of that miserable tea-room. We used to get loaded.
Author: Hayden Herrera
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781466817081
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 784
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From the Author of Frida, the Moving and Heroic Story of One of the Central Painters of the Twentieth Century Born in Turkey around 1900, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to watch his mother die of starvation and his family scatter in their flight from the Turks. Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the pseudonym Arshile Gorky-and obliterated his past. Claiming to be a distant cousin of the novelist Maxim Gorky, he found work as an art teacher and undertook a program of rigorous study, schooling himself in the modern painters he most admired, especially Cézanne and Picasso. By the early forties, Gorky had entered his most fruitful period and developed the style that is seen as the link between European modernism and American abstract expressionism. His masterpieces influenced the great generation of American painters in the late forties, even as Gorky faced a series of personal catastrophes: a studio fire, cancer, and a car accident that temporarily paralyzed his painting arm. Further demoralized by the dissolution of his seven-year marriage, Gorky hanged himself in 1948. A sympathetic, sensitive account of artistic and personal triumph as well as tragedy, Hayden Herrera's biography is the first to interpret Gorky's work in depth. The result of more than three decades of scholarship-and a lifelong engagement with Gorky's paintings-Arshile Gorky traces the progress from apprentice to master of the man André Breton called "the most important painter in American history."Davis liked jazz. He would say to Gorky, 'Jazz it up a little, Gorky! Jazz it up a little!' Gorky could sing and snap his fingers and dance, he could do that in the middle of that miserable tea-room. We used to get loaded.13 Then, ...
Author: Nouritza Matossian
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 9781468305173
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 576
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A biography of the Armenian painter that “adds immeasurable to the interest of [his] art . . . Carefully researched, well written, [and] enlightening” (The New York Review of Books). In this first full-scale biography, Nouritza Matossian charts the mysterious and tragic life of Arshile Gorky, one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. Born Manoug Adoian in Armenia, he survived the Turkish genocide of 1915 before coming to America, where he posed as a cousin of the famous Russian author Maxim Gorky. One of the first abstract expressionists, Gorky became a major figure of the New York School, which included de Kooning, Rothko, Pollock, and others. But after a devastating series of illnesses, injuries, and personal setbacks, he committed suicide at the age of forty-six. In Black Angel, arts journalist Matossian analyzes Gorky’s personal letters, as well as other new source material. She writes with authority, insight, and compassion about the powerful influence Gorky’s life and Armenian heritage had upon his painting."If he was playing something correct—for instance if he was playing 'Side by Side,' one of the popular numbers—he'd be playing it just like it was written. But I wouldn't want it. I would want him to jazz it up a little bit, ...
Author: Dizzy Gillespie
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816665471
Category: Music
Page: 634
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Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1979.But if it comes out from a local agency then it gets some columns in the newspaper and on the television . But you have got to jazz it up a little bit . There is no question about it . You have got to jazz it up .
Author: United States. Federal Trade Commission
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:B4179829
Category: Consumer protection
Page: 400
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It gave more force to the scent. So they would say, 'let's jass it up a bit,' when something was a little dead. When you started improvising, then, they said, 'jazz it up,' meaning give your own concept of the melody ... It caught on in ...
Author: Dennis McNally
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 9781619024120
Category: Music
Page: 384
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On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan. The book begins with America's first great social critic, Henry David Thoreau, and his fundamental source of social philosophy:–––his profound commitment to freedom, to abolitionism and to African–American culture. Continuing with Mark Twain, through whom we can observe the rise of minstrelsy, which he embraced, and his subversive satirical masterpiece Huckleberry Finn. While familiar, the book places them into a newly articulated historical reference that shines new light and reveals a progression that is much greater than the sum of its individual parts. As the first post–Civil War generation of black Americans came of age, they introduced into the national culture a trio of musical forms—ragtime, blues, and jazz— that would, with their derivations, dominate popular music to this day. Ragtime introduced syncopation and become the cutting edge of the modern 20th century with popular dances. The blues would combine with syncopation and improvisation and create jazz. Maturing at the hands of Louis Armstrong, it would soon attract a cluster of young white musicians who came to be known as the Austin High Gang, who fell in love with black music and were inspired to play it themselves. In the process, they developed a liberating respect for the diversity of their city and country, which they did not see as exotic, but rather as art. It was not long before these young white rebels were the masters of American pop music – big band Swing. As Bop succeeded Swing, and Rhythm and Blues followed, each had white followers like the Beat writers and the first young rock and rollers. Even popular white genres like the country music of Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter Family reflected significant black influence. In fact, the theoretical separation of American music by race is not accurate. This biracial fusion achieved an apotheosis in the early work of Bob Dylan, born and raised at the northern end of the same Mississippi River and Highway 61 that had been the birthplace of much of the black music he would study. As the book reveals, the connection that began with Thoreau and continued for over 100 years was a cultural evolution where, at first individuals, and then larger portions of society, absorbed the culture of those at the absolute bottom of the power structure, the slaves and their descendants, and realized that they themselves were not free.I remember him holding it up and explaining Bernoulli's principle of lift using this little airplane, and then explaining to me about ... 'So, you're learning to fly,' and I'd say, 'Yeah,' and he'd say, 'Do you ever just jazz it up?
Author: Christopher Angus
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815608943
Category: Nature
Page: 286
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The inspiring biography of an Adirondack legend whose tireless efforts are credited with much of today's preservation policies in the Adirondacks.