Corky Williams

Author : Sage Birchwater,Corky Williams,Jeanine Seals Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1927575184

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Corky Williams by Sage Birchwater,Corky Williams,Jeanine Seals Williams Pdf

Originally from Texas, Corky and his wife, Jeanine, moved from Los Angeles to Anahim Lake, BC, to become ranchers. Corky had grown up on a ranch along the Mexican border before heading to LA to work in the film industry. After a freak accident at the Anahim Lake Stampede, he was unable to continue life as a rancher, so he returned to his previous career onstage and in film. Getting chosen to perform at Expo 86 in Vancouver was the big break he needed. From there he landed parts in shows like CBC's The Beachcombers and CTV's Bordertown. After Corky and Jeanine split up in 1990, Corky moved back to Texas to work in theatre productions with his brother Jaston Williams, and he performed on some of the major stages across the United States. In 2007, Corky, longing for the wide-open spaces of BC's Cariboo, moved back to Williams Lake. Corky became known as one of Western Canada's most beloved cowboy poets, performing his spoken word stories and poetry across the province.

Author : Maurice Waller,Anthony Calabrese
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452956671

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Fats Waller by Maurice Waller,Anthony Calabrese Pdf

Thomas “Fats” Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and hundreds more. This is the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of his exuberant life, as told by his son, Maurice Waller. The public knew him as a charming, rascally, and effervescent showman. Friends like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin knew him as a serious piano stylist and composer. Maurice Waller reveals the rarely seen side of Fats as a family man, struggling to juggle domestic affairs with the demands of being one of the era’s busiest jazz men. From his earliest days as a child prodigy to his wild nights playing Harlem rent parties to his appearances on stages around the world and his eventual commercial success, it’s all here. Few stories capture the frenetic energy of the age quite as well as the life story of this rollicking, hard living jazz icon.

Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755146871

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Young Petrella by Michael Gilbert Pdf

Patrick Petrella is considered a curiosity by his fellow police officers. The son of a Spanish policeman and an English school mistress, he speaks four languages and is as good at picking fine wines as he is locks. These short stories deal with burglaries, delinquents, bent lawyers, gangs, drugs trafficking and murder.

Author : George C. Fraser
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061927027

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Success Runs in Our Race by George C. Fraser Pdf

A completely updated and revised edition of a bestselling book that has helped tens of thousands of people learn how to network effectively, Success Runs in Our Race is more important than ever in this fluctuating economy. With scores of anecdotes taken from interviews with successful African Americans -- from Keith Clinkscales, founder and former CEO of Vanguarde Media, to Oprah Winfrey -- Fraser shows how to network for information, for influence, and for resources. Readers will learn, among other things, how to cultivate valuable listening skills, which conferences blacks are most likely to attend when looking to build their business network, and how to effectively circulate a résumé. More than a guide for personal achievement, this is an information-packed bible of networking that also seeks to inspire a social movement and a rebirth of the "Underground Railroad," in which successful African Americans share the lessons of self-determination and empowerment with those still struggling to scale the ladder of success.

Author : Mark Berresford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604733716

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That's Got 'em! by Mark Berresford Pdf

Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African. American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth. century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a. seven-decade career. His talent transformed every genre of black music before the. advent of rock and roll?pickaninny bands, minstrelsy, circus sideshows, vaudeville. (both black and white), night clubs, and cabarets. Sweatman was the first African. American musician to be offered a long-term recording contract, and he dazzled. listeners with jazz clarinet solos before the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's so-called first. jazz records.. Sweatman toured the vaudeville circuit for over twenty years and presented African. American music to white music lovers without resorting to the hitherto obligatory. plantation costumes and blackface makeup. His bands were a fertile breeding ground. of young jazz talent, featuring such future stars as Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, . and Jimmie Lunceford. Sweatman subsequently played pioneering roles in radio and. recording production. His high profile and sterling reputation in both the black and. white entertainment communities made him a natural choice for administering the. estate of Scott Joplin and other notable black performers and composers. That's Got. 'Em! is the first full-length biography of this pivotal figure in black popular culture, . providing a compelling account of his life and times

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357508

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Mezz Mezzrow,Bernard Wolfe
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590179468

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Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow,Bernard Wolfe Pdf

Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing with the greats, among them Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Fats Waller. Really the Blues, the jive-talking memoir that Mezzrow wrote at the insistence of, and with the help of, the novelist Bernard Wolfe, is the story of an unusual and unusually American life, and a portrait of a man who moved freely across racial boundaries when few could or did, “the odyssey of an individualist . . . the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everyone was too busy making money.”

Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252090639

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Lost Sounds by Tim Brooks Pdf

A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.

Author : Brian Rust,Malcolm Shaw
Publisher : Denver, Colo. : Mainspring Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015056677597

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Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942 by Brian Rust,Malcolm Shaw Pdf

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Author : Sage Birchwater,Gerald Williams (Composer),Jeanine Seals Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poets, Canadian
ISBN : 1927575877

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Corky Williams by Sage Birchwater,Gerald Williams (Composer),Jeanine Seals Williams Pdf

A diminutive cowboy with a full beard and a Texas drawl stands onstage at Expo 86 in Vancouver telling wild and woolly stories of life in the Chilcotin backcountry. The audience is mesmerized by his poetic ballad of an alcoholic dog that rode on the back of his saddle in Anahim Lake. The performer is Luther Corky Williams.

Author : Mike Bartos
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477158937

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Bash by Mike Bartos Pdf

Ashley Roper, Gulf War combat veteran, is now a writer and tabloid publisher in Charleston, SC. The nearby Bay Area State Hospital (BASH) for the criminally insane, is offering up a rich variety of potentially juicy stories including an escaped murderer, a patient released by a jury, the violent death of a staff member, and illicit drugs finding their way through the barbed wire perimeter of BASH. Ash decides to investigate from the inside, but through a series of unforeseen circumstances, ends up trapped in the hospital as a patient. Ashs headstrong wife and her lawyer buddy, a roadside cafe owner, a sexy weather girl, a meth tweaking biker, a crooked cop, a homicide detective, and a variety of incompetent bureacrats cross paths in this engaging and dramatic adventure. Parts of the story are narrated by hard drinking, blues playing psychiatrist, "Doc" Kerrigan, who lands squarely in the middle of the dilemma. The Napa Valley Register calls BASH "an enthralling read."

Author : Ella O Williams
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452030579

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Harlem Renaissance by Ella O Williams Pdf

“PRIOR TO THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, BLACKS PORTRAY THEMSELVES AS STRANGS OBJECTS, ALIENATED FROM OTHERS IN THE SOCIETY.” The social activities in literature, art, theatre and entertainment in Harlem Renaissanc: a Handbook are documented for the period 1910-1940. A few intellectuals, specifically James Weldon Johnson, W E B DuBois, Charles Johnson and Alain Locke perceive that they, themselves, are the “New Negro.” Thus they produce and record the visual arts, literature and music they personally create as well as that of younger literary artists: Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen and Roland Hayes. The literature, scholarship and criticism created among these intellectuals are mainly responsible for bringing about a renaissance. What is so unique about the Harlem Renaissance is that it is totally perceived and criticized by white American literary standards. At no time in African American history has there been an era wherein self-proclaimed intellectuals record their own literary activities as they are being created. That single concept is the focus of the research in Harlem Renaissance: a Handbook. Identifying each Major and Other Figures of the Harlem Renaissance permits the reader to experience the life and time of the era. The influx of African American literature requires the need to study the artists and to document the literary and creative arts of the Harlem Renaissance. View the photos and read the biography of the intellectuals as they live through an era devoted to illuminating Negro life as it actually exists in America. Most helpful to the reader is the Chronology of literary arts and corresponding activities of the Harlem Renaissance. During the years 1910-1940 the titles of articles, theatrical productions, books, poetry, music, visual arts and literature created during this period have been documented. The items chosen for the Chronology are not exhaustive, but they represent nearly all the literature and activities created during the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem Renaissance, a Handbook is a journey through time wherein literary and artistic history is documented as it occurs. With the aid of local New York Publishing companies, intellectuals encourage younger literary artists to publish only Negro folk life and culture as it actually exists.

Author : Count Basie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781452953205

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Good Morning Blues by Count Basie Pdf

Count Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at dances and pig roasts, to his years in New York City in search of opportunity, to rollicking anecdotes of Basie’s encounters with Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Billie Holliday, and Tony Bennett. In this classic of jazz autobiography that was ten years in the making, Albert Murray brings the voice of Count Basie to the printed page in what is both testimony and tribute to an incredibly rich life.

Author : Avram Mednick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595332533

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Copasetic by Avram Mednick Pdf

Copasetic is the story of two families. The Stahlinkoviches are klezmorim (Jewish musicians) from Eastern Europe. The Carters are African American sharecroppers from the Mississippi Delta, home of the blues. Both families migrate to Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their lives intertwine like the notes to the score of the American experience.

Author : Melissa Watson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493014491

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Touring the Springs of Florida by Melissa Watson Pdf

Featuring the state’s finest cold springs, Touring the Springs of Florida features full-color photos of each site and in-depth descriptions of the springs and surrounding areas. Whether you’re tubing, paddling, hiking, diving, or sightseeing, detailed maps, GPS coordinates, and thorough driving directions lead you every step of the way.