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  Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min

  Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his “solo” turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter’s personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, “Man, you ought to leave your karma to science.” Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore - even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Morton, Terria Joseph, Prentice Onayemi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050800/bk_adbl_050800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bruce , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1076min

  This sweeping biography of Bruce Springsteen features in-depth interviews with family, band members, childhood friends, ex-girlfriends, and a poignant retrospective from the Boss himself. It’s Bruce as his many fans haven’t before seen him - the man behind the myth, describing his life and work in intimate, vivid detail. For close to four decades, Bruce Springsteen has reflected the heart and soul of America in a career that encompasses twenty Grammy Awards, more than 120 million albums sold, two Golden Globes, and an Academy Award. Yet despite the honesty of his songwriting, Springsteen has remained adamantly elusive and reserved. In a groundbreaking biography that draws on unprecedented access to Springsteen and those closest to him, acclaimed music critic Peter Ames Carlin presents the most revealing account yet of New Jersey’s favorite son. With contributions from band members past and present, including the last interview given by legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons, Bruce encompasses the breadth of Springsteen’s astonishing career and explores the inner workings of an American icon right up through his most recent sold-out tour and number-one album, Wrecking Ball. A must for fans, Bruce is a meticulously researched biography of one of the most complex and fascinating artists in American music. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bobby Cannavale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006140/bk_sans_006140_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

  From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes and feeling them.The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside.The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level. Multiple Grammy Award winning saxophonist Michael Brecker

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  12 Medium-Easy Jazz, Blues & Funk Etudes: Bass Clef Instruments [With CD (Audio)]

  Created for a wide variety of musicians, 12 Medium-Easy Jazz, Blues & Funk Etudes will appeal to both aspiring players and more experienced musicians. Accessible, yet with some challenges, this music was written by world-renowned jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist, bandleader, educator, and member of the Yellowjackets, Bob Mintzer. Designed for the medium-easy difficulty level, this book includes 12 jazz, blues and funk etudes in a variety of jazz styles, tempos, and time signatures, performance notes/tips for each etude to assist in interpretation and improvisation, play-along CD with a stellar rhythm section, transcription exercise, composition exercise, and a practice page with scales/chords. All books in this series are compatible and written so they can be performed together. Study and learn melodic composition, improvisation, sight reading, motivic development, scales and chords, jazz concept, major and minor blues, jazz waltz, slow/medium/fast swing, and funky groove.

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  The Music Lesson (eBook, ePUB)

  From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside. "The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level."-Multiple Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker

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  The Jazzsipper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min

  The Jazzsipper is set in the big Southern cities of New Orleans and Atlanta. New Orleans known for Jazz and casually mislabeled as The Murder Capital of the United States, and Atlanta known as the new power house locale for African-American meetings and conventions. There were an estimated 1,600 Black conventions and conferences with an economic impact of $5.6 billion in the US with African-American meetings and events with Atlanta accounting for more than 320,000 visitors and bringing a $264.5 million economic impact on the city this summer alone. And a part time street vendor named Vance, aka Jazz for his love of Jazz music, intends to get, by any means necessary, $132.2 million dollars of it - the amount that is spent with the street vendors. The story takes hold of you like a note hit by a Jazz Saxophonist, it moves you through one note and instrument at a time...and it takes you through mental picturesque views of some of the Jazziest cities backdrops. The ensemble of characters are as interesting and unique as the mental Jazz sounds that plays the harmony through this story. A funny, provocative look at religion, love, lust, money, fashion, and Jazz music, all through the eyes of a Jazzsipper.... Chuck A Luck, Chuck A Luck the more that they put down, the more you pick up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Reuben J. Tapp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220190/bk_acx0_220190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Coq au Vin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min

  Will hard-boiled New York street musician Nanette Hayes find love and music in the city of lights - or only heartbreak and murder? After a series of harrowing events, sassy self-taught saxophonist Nanette Hayes is back to her routine: street performing from the theater district to Riverside Park to Park Avenue, haunting the music stores on Bleecker, hanging out at the mobbed-up strip club where her BFF, Aubrey, is the reigning diva, and, to keep her mom in the dark, inventing more and more tales about her fictitious job at NYU as a French teacher. When Nanette's overprotective mother tells her that her glamorous, bohemian auntie Vivian has gone missing in France under mysterious circumstances, Nanette is dispatched to Paris to help. Paris - her favorite city! Nan has to keep her focus on the mystery at hand and not on the coq au vin and Veuve Clicquot and jazz clubs. But the vibrant scene turns out to be the very thing that leads her deep into the underbelly of historic Paris, the crux of her aunt's disappearance, a twenty-year-old murder - and a sexy duet with Andre, a gifted violinist and fellow street musician from Detroit who puts his life on the line to prove his love for Nanette. Coq au Vin is the second book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Eller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022039/bk_adbl_022039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Die Messerkönigin, Hörbuch, Digital, 212min

  Die Messerkönigin" ist eine Sammlung skurriler, britischer Kurzgeschichten des Erfolgsautors Neil Gaiman, die Oliver Rohrbeck als inszenierte, musikalisch untermalte Lesung durchlebt. Sechs erfolgreiche Musiker und Komponisten interpretieren Gaimans einzigartigen Reigen aus Komik und Dramatik und verleihen damit jeder einzelnen Erzählung eine außergewöhnliche und individuelle Note. Auf diese Weise werden die Geschichten zu einem lebendigen und kurzweiligen Hörgenuss.Der Sprecher:Oliver Rohrbeck, geboren 1965 in Berlin, ist Schauspieler, Hörspielsprecher und Hörbuchproduzent. Seine warm klingende jugendliche Baritonstimme, die er vielseitig und spielerisch einzusetzen weiß, ist durch die Rolle Justus Jonas von den "Drei ???" und als deutsche Stimme von Ben Stiller bekannt.Der Autor:Neil Gaiman wurde 1960 in Portchester, England geboren und gilt als einer wichtigsten lebenden Autoren der Postmoderne im "Dictionary of Literary Biography". Für seine Werke, zu denen die bekannte Comicserie "Der Sandmann" und Romane wie "Der Sternenwanderer" und "American Gods" zählen, wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Die Musiker:Tilman Ehrhorn ist durch seine Arbeit als Saxophonist, Komponist, Sounddesigner und Dozent ein wichtiger Vertreter der jungen deutschen Jazzszene. Neben regelmäßiger Arbeit an Theatern und bei TV-, Radio- und CD-Produktionen hat er sich auch mit Auftritten in Ensembles in Jazzclubs und auf Festivals und Konzerttourneen im In- und Ausland einen Namen gemacht.Dirk Wilhelm, geboren 1977 in Saarlouis, begann mit 12 Jahren das Gitarrenspiel und war seitdem in wechselnden Bands als Gitarrist und Komponist tätig, u.a. "Nullkern" und "The Ocean". Seit 2003 arbeitet er als Komponist für die Lauscherlounge und das Hörspielstudio XBerg (Produktionen u.a. Dracula, Team Xtreme, Drei mal Drei Geschichten). deutsch. Oliver Rohrbeck. https://samples.audible.de/bk/laus/000031/bk_laus_000031_sample.mp3.

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  Rhode Island Red , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 402min

  This New York noir tale of a saxophone-playing amateur detective takes some jazzy twists. Saxophonist Nanette Hayes, a majestic five-foot-ten-inch Grace Jones lookalike with hot style, lives for the music of her jazz forebears. Self-taught Nan is no Charlie Parker, but she dreams big. She performs regularly - on the sidewalks of New York City. Not exactly the Village Vanguard, but it pays the bills in ways that her master’s degree in French does not. Mostly Nanette just tries to stay cool in the face of the worst kinds of hardship. Recently this has taken the form of getting dumped - hard - by her live-in boyfriend, Walter. When her normally messy life is at its epic messiest, fellow street musician Sig walks up, and - after insulting her playing and narrowly missing being hit by a bus - changes everything. Out of nowhere, sixty grand that can’t possibly be legit appears in Nan’s sax. Suddenly she is contending with two grisly murders, a former lover who wants her back, a jazz-obsessed ex-con, and some scarifying cops who are trying to shake her down. Equal parts tough and romantic, Nanette uses her street-musician smarts and her New York City savvy to try to save her own skin and solve a musical mystery no less a legend than Bird himself. Rhode Island Red is the first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Eller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022041/bk_adbl_022041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 681min

  The war on cancer in one soldier's own words. When American saxophonist and social activist Fred Ho was diagnosed with stage 3b colo-rectal cancer in 2006 he underwent immediate surgery to remove the tumor and began preparing for chemotherapy. Within days his friends mobilized to arrange grocery deliveries, transport, companionship, and housekeeping duties - they called themselves “Warriors for Fred”. Fred chose to write his astonishing cancer memoir as a diary, acknowledging that all the greatest warriors from Sun Tzu to swordsman Murasashi to Bruce Lee wrote daily diaries because warfare against a most formidable enemy will be won, ultimately, on the philosophical level. With incredibly detailed entries, Fred talks frankly about his battle - his meticulous research, his various treatments, his successes, and his failures. Together, he and his loved ones discuss plans for future artistic projects: a new opera on Antony and Cleopatra, a project with a native Alaskan totem carver, and an underwater ballet for synchronized swimmers. He learns to find joy in the simple things: the beauty of the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, a fresh pork bun, or a night of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. Above all, we learn what it means to truly live in the present - through Fred’s unflinching description of the effects of colon cancer - and about his search not just for “a cure” in a medical sense, but for true healing. For Fred, this includes understanding the way of the warrior - one who fights for beauty, justice, health, equity, and sustainability. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Altschuler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008460/bk_adbl_008460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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