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Books narrated by Stanley Crouch

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  • Kansas City Lightning

    The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

    " A tour de force . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker's music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives." — Washington PostA stunning portrait of Charlie Parker, one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout his life, Charlie Parker ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Artificial White Man

    Essays on Authenticity

    In this penetrating collection of original essays, legendary gadfly and esteemed critic Stanley Crouch tackles the notion on authenticity-what it is, what it isn't, and what we make of it, for good or for bad. While the question of who's the real deal and who isn't has now seeped into nearly every corner of American culture, nowhere does the idea of authenticity hold greater sway than in the realm ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Considering Genius

    Writings on Jazz

    Stanley Crouch-MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Book Award nominee, and perennial bull in the china shop of black intelligentsia-has been writing about jazz and jazz artists for more than thirty years. His reputation for controversy is exceeded only by a universal respect for his intellect and passion. As Gary Giddons notes: "Stanley may be the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Always in Pursuit

    Fresh American Perspectives

    As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic. Whether he is writing on the uniqueness of the American South, the death of Tupak Shakur, the O.J. Simpson verdict, or the damage done by the Oklahoma City bombing, Crouch's high-velocity exchange with American culture is conducted with scrupulous allegiance to the truth, even ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race

    The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994

    In this brilliantly acerbic collection of essays--a New York Times Notable Book in 1995--Stanley Crouch confirms that he is one of the most eloquent and unpredictable commentators on race and culture in American society--something already known to anyone who's seen him on 60 Minutes or read his columns in The Village Voice and The New Republic. 288 pp. National media appearances. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Victory Is Assured

    Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch

    The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America’s most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays.With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost “a critic without peer” (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Her First American

    A Novel

    by Lore Segal ...
    Hailed by the New York Times as coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel," Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectualFor Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Kansas City Lightning

    The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol. 4

    Jazz Lights Up Harlem

    Narrated by Stanley Crouch ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    The legendary Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes listeners back to the Harlem Renaissance-a time and place when jazz was king. Famed jazz critic Stanley Crouch narrates as Kareem shares thoughts on this distinctly American musical style and its profound influence. Also offering insights are such iconic figures as Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, and Maya Angelou. ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Other People's Houses

    A Novel

    by Lore Segal ...
    With a foreword by Cynthia Ozick, this semiautobiographical novel of a Jewish girl forced away from home in the face of Nazi persecution is an extraordinary tale of fortitude and survivalOn a December night in 1938, a ten-year-old girl named Lore is put on the Kindertransport, a train carrying hundreds of Jewish children out of Austria to safety from Hitler's increasingly alarming oppression. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mycroft Holmes

    Series Book 1 - MYCROFT HOLMES
    A new novel written by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descent, and where his fiance ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Becoming Kareem

    Growing Up On and Off the Court

    The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, pleasing a strict father, and overcoming shyness that made him feel socially awkward. But with a talent for basketball, and an unmatched team of supporters, Lew Alcindor was able to transform and to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD