false 236286 0 0 907676 0876044488 9780876044483 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179355313m/907676.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179355313s/907676.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/907676.There_Is_a_River_The_Story_of_Edgar_Cayce 4.14 84 This special edition features Auras, the only book written by Edgar Cayce himself.

]]> 236286 4.12 97 14 1945 418499 0306804662 9780306804663 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174577749m/418499.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174577749s/418499.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418499.We_Called_It_Music_A_Generation_of_Jazz 3.75 4 We Called It Music, a book widely celebrated for capturing the camaraderie of early jazz. Condon's wit was as legendary as the music he boosted. Here is Condon on modern jazz: "The boopers flat their fifths. We consume ours." On Bix Beiderbecke: "The sound came out like a girl saying yes." On the New York subway: "It was my first ride in a sewer." When his memoir was first published—to great acclaim—in 1947, he was well known as a newspaper columnist, radio personality, saloon keeper, guitarist, and bandleader. He was the ideal man to come up with an insightful portrait of the early days of white jazz, and his book offers nonpareil accounts of many of the jazz greats of that era, including Beiderbacke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Jimmy McPartland, Gene Krupa, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby.These were the days when jazz was popularly associated with Paul Whiteman and Irving Berlin. Condon considered true jazz an outlaw music and himself an outlaw. He and his cohorts tried to get as close as possible to the black roots of jazz, a scandalous thing in the '20s. Along the way he facilitated one of the first integrated recording sessions.We Called It Music, now published with an introduction by Gary Giddins that places the book in historical context, remains essential reading for anyone interested in the wild and restless beginnings of America's great musical art, or in the wit and vinegar of Eddie Condon.</div>]]> 236287 4.00 5 1 236286 4.12 97 14 85529 4.01 150 24 1988 7122637 1588367568 9781588367563 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7122637-sweet-land-of-liberty 0.0 0 236286 4.12 97 14 2008