Facing fearful odds, Claxton, Penny

Название: Claxton, Jazzlife
ISBN: 3836542935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836542937
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: Take a jazz trip like no other with William Claxton`s legendary photographic journey across the concert halls, side streets, and big bands of 1960s America. From coast to coast, Claxton`s tribute is a living, breathing, beating picture of the genre that enraptured America across social, economic, and racial lines.

Автор: Claxton William
Название: Jazzlife
ISBN: 3836544687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836544689
Издательство: Taschen
Цена: 28330.00 T
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Описание: Visions of American jazz. This title features Claxton's photographs of legendary jazz musicians. In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted German musicologist Joachim Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz music.

The result of their collaboration was an amazing collection of photographs and recordings of legendary artists as well as unknown street musicians. The book "Jazzlife", the original fruit of their labors, has become a collector's item that is highly treasured among jazz and photography fans. In 2003, TASCHEN began reassembling this important collection of material - along with many never-before-seen color images from those trips.

They are brought together in this updated volume, which includes a foreword by William Claxton tracing his travels with Berendt and his love affair with jazz music in general. Jazz fans will be delighted to be able to take a jazz-trip through time, seeing the music as Claxton and Berendt originally experienced it.

Автор: Baird Mimi, Claxton Eve
Название: He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter`s Quest to Know Him
ISBN: 0804137498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804137492
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A "Washington Post "Best Book of 2015
A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own.
Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic depression, just as he began to suffer from it himself. By the time the results of his groundbreaking experiments were published, Dr. Baird had been institutionalized multiple times, his medical license revoked, and his wife and daughters estranged. He later received a lobotomy and died from a consequent seizure, his research incomplete, his achievements unrecognized.
Mimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood. Decades later, a string of extraordinary coincidences led to the recovery of a manuscript which Dr. Baird had worked on throughout his brutal institutionalization, confinement, and escape. This remarkable document, reflecting periods of both manic exhilaration and clear-headed health, presents a startling portrait of a man who was a uniquely astute observer of his own condition, struggling with a disease for which there was no cure, racing against time to unlock the key to treatment before his illness became impossible to manage.
Fifty years after being told her father would forever be ill and away, Mimi Baird set off on a quest to piece together the memoir and the man. In time her fingers became stained with the lead of the pencil he had used to write his manuscript, as she devoted herself to understanding who he was, why he disappeared, and what legacy she had inherited. The result of his extraordinary record and her journey to bring his name to light is "He Wanted the Moon," an unforgettable testament to the reaches of the mind and the redeeming power of a determined heart.

"From the Hardcover edition.""

Автор: Cocker Mark
Название: Claxton
ISBN: 0099593475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099593478
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: `After Mark Cocker`s glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.` Philip Hoare, New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk.

Название: Claxton, Jazzlife
ISBN: 3822851663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783822851661
Издательство: Taschen
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Описание: Features photographs of Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Gabor Szabo, and others. This title also includes a bonus CD of digitally remastered recordings of music made during Berendt and Claxton`s journey. It includes a foreword by Claxton tracing his travels with Berendt and his love affair with jazz music.