Jazz

What We're Reading: June 2013

We're not just reading, we're watching DVDs, listening to audio books and music.

Hustle. The complete season one [videodisc]: the con is on

The school of essential ingredients [sound recording] by Erica Bauermeister

The blue room [sound recording] by Madeleine Peyroux

The autistic brain: thinking across the spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek

Fatherhood: and other stories by Thomas H. Cook

What We're Reading: May 2013

We're not just reading, we're listening to audiobooks and watching videos.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society [sound recording] by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

The lost art of mixing by Erica Bauermeister

Peyton Place [videodisc] by Twentieth Century Fox presents a CinemaScope picture ; Jerry Wald's production

A wrinkle in time: the graphic novel by [Madeleine L'Engle] ; adapted and illustrated by Hope Larson ; [colored by Jenn Manley Lee]

Putumayo presents Jazz around the world [sound recording]

Behind the Music

Promoters,musicians,songwriters,recording studios...all these people behind the scenes.


Hüsker Dü: the story of the noise-pop pioneers who launched modern rock
by Andrew Earles

Here, there and everywhere: my life recording the music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey

Lonely avenue: the unlikely life and times of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt

Dream boogie: the triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick

Seeing the light: inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic

Time was, Time is… April 2012

What We're Listening to: December 2011

It's that time of the year again. Some of our holiday favorite sounds:

A Hawaiian Christmas [sound recording] by Amy Hanaiali'i

A midwinter night's dream [sound recording] by Loreena McKennitt

Barenaked For the Holidays [sound recording] by Barenaked Ladies

Noël [sound recording] by Josh Groban

Christmas caravan [sound recording] by Squirrel Nut Zippers

A very cool Christmas [sound recording] by Dean Martin

December [sound recording] by the Moody Blues

Christmas songs [sound recording] by Diana Krall featuring the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra

Jazz for Kids

Looking for some music to help the kids chill out on these very hot days? Try some Jazz. Cool Jazz for Kids and Disney Songs the Satchmo Way are just two of the great selections of Jazz for kids. Classic crooners like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are some of the artists that will help your family beat the heat. More selections are available in the Children's Department. Stay cool!

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