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  Doug Stanhope: No Place Like Home

  Doug Stanhope

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  Doug Stanhope performs live in his hometown of Bisbee, Arizona, tackling an assortment of hard-hitting issues, from caring for the mentally-ill, to Vietnam vets, being locked up abroad and why everyone should kick like they kick. Watch him battle ISIS for the disenfranchised, angry youth.

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  Portraits in Jazz

  Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune

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  A collection of articles on and interviews with jazz greats Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, and others. 
   
  Howard Reich has reported on jazz for the Chicago Tribune for almost four decades, and in this time, he has met musicians both celebrated and obscure. From his exclusive interviews with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald, to profiles of the early masters like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday, this book illustrates Reich’s deep understanding of the performances, recordings, and cultural legacies of these jazz masters. 
   
  This book, comprising Reich’s award-winning Chicago Tribune articles, shows readers his unmatched critical insight and unrivaled access to the diverse range of jazz musicians the world over, including the little-known artists who, while never in the national spotlight, were nonetheless instrumental to the evolution of jazz. Divided thematically, Portraits in Jazz is a journey from the time of jazz music’s originators, great singers, and early masters through to its courageous standouts, game changers, and regional influencers from Chicago to Cuba and across the globe. 
   
  Reich, himself a piano performance major at Northwestern University, says in the introduction that studying theory and history are essential to understanding jazz’s inner-workings. But these portraits weren’t created as academic theses or history-book lessons. They are on-the-spot, in the heat of the moment questions of its greatest practitioners, articles and essays in the here and now, taking readers one step closer to the meaning of sound.

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  Artist's Guide to Success in the...

  Loren Weisman

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  Chapter 4 of The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business. This chapter is regarding Managing, Performing and Booking Gigs

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  Barry Craig and Abbott & Costello

  Carl Amari, Various Authors

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  It’s tax time, but Lou is broke, on a hilarious episode of The Abbott and Costello Show. We’ll also hear Barry Craig Confidential Investigator, The Adventures of Red Ryder, Archie Andrews, and Crime Classics.

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  Joni Mitchell - In Her Own Words

  Malka Marom

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  When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer that she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process.In Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, Joni and Malka follow this thread through seven decades of life and art, discussing the influence of Joni's childhood, love and loss, playing dives and huge festivals, acclaim and criticism, poverty and affluence, glamorous triumphs and tragic mistakes.

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  Alonzo Bodden: Tall Dark and Funny

  Alonzo Bodden

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  Alonzo touches upon every subject from tsuamis to terrorists, Democrats to desperate housewives, marriage to midgets, and more. Shot at the historic El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, Alonzo brings down the house with hilarious comedy.

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