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  Kansas City Lightning - The Rise...

  Stanley Crouch

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  “A tour de force . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” —Washington Post 
   
  A stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America. 
   
  Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at the age of thirty-four. 
   
  Drawing on interviews with peers, collaborators, and family members, Stanley Crouch recreates Parker’s childhood; his early days navigating the Kansas City nightlife, inspired by lions like Lester Young and Count Basie; and on to New York, where he began to transcend the music he had mastered. Crouch reveals an ambitious young man torn between music and drugs, between his domineering mother and his impressionable young wife, whose teenage romance with Charlie lies at the bittersweet heart of this story. 
   
  With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of an acclaimed social critic, and the narrative skill of a literary novelist, Stanley Crouch illuminates this American master as never before. 
   
  “A virtuous performance.” —David Hajdu, New York Times Book Review 
   
  “A magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 
   
  “Insightful, profound, and wholly original.” —Wynton Marsalis 
   
  “A jazz biography that ranks with the very best.” —Booklist, starred review 
   
  “In prose that veers toward lyrical rapture, [Crouch] conjures the inner life of the improvising artist.” —The New Yorker

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  Walt Whitman: Sweet Bird of Freedom

  Willard Manus

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  The little known story of Walt Whitman and his first love, a beautiful creole girl in New Orleans. From this relationship, Whitman matured as a poet, reflecting upon his devotion to his country and the tenor of the time of Lincoln's assassination.

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  Penelope Wilton on Isabella...

  Penelope Wilton

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  In each volume of the Shakespeare on Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes, recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. They discuss their character, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing candour and in forensic detail. The result is a masterclass on playing the role, invaluable for other actors and directors, as well as students of Shakespeare – and fascinating for audiences of the play.
  In this volume, Penelope Wilton discusses playing Isabella in Jonathan Miller's 'chamber' production of Measure for Measure.
  This interview, together with the others in the series (with actors such as Judi Dench, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart), is also available in the collection Shakespeare on Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles by Julian Curry, with a foreword by Trevor Nunn.
  'absorbing and original... Curry's actors are often thinking and talking as that other professional performer, Shakespeare himself, might have done' TLS

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  Personal Branding

  Steve Pavlina

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  Personal branding is basically the way you market yourself to the world. Your personal brand is what other people think of you. In some ways it's outside your control, but you obviously have some influence over it.    Personal branding is unavoidable. As others interact with you, they'll automatically form mental associations that connect you with certain labels, often within the first few seconds. You can't avoid being labeled...

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  Merry Christmas Vol 2

  Kim Mitzo Thompson

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  What better way to say "Merry Christmas!" than with beautiful instrumental music!

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  GLOBO ARTE APRIL 2022 ISSUE - AN...

  Globo Arte team

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  Hi guys this is the APRIL 2022 Magazine issue, which contains artists interviews to inspire artists, and so much more to help the artist in their art career,it contains artist interviews, art-related topics articles and question of the month, step of the month and social media updates

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