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Book Review

Oh, Play That Thing

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Oh, Play That Thing Roddy Doyle Paperback/audio; 378 pages ISBN: 0670033618 Viking Press 1994

Renowned Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is best known for his hard-boiled stories of revolution. Of course, that usually means the Irish Republican Army and civil war, but not so in part two of Doyle's Final Roundup trilogy. The revolutionary aspect of this novel is jazz. The 1999 smash A Star Called Henry introduced the ruthless Henry ...

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Book Review

Marsalis on Music

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Marsalis on Music: The Book & CD Companion to the Public Television Series Wynton Marsalis Hardcover; 171 pages ISBN: 0393038815 WW Norton & Company 1995

Marsalis on Music, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' groundbreaking audio/visual music education project from 1995, was produced by Sony Classical Film & Video, debuted in the US on PBS, and subsequently translated and shown around the world. The Peabody Award-winning program provides an excellent introduction to classical ...


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