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Learn English with Italian in a fun and interesting way!It can be difficult to find easy dialogues for English learners with the Italian translations. That's where this book comes in! These conversations are easy to read, contain simple questions and answers, as well as the Italian translation, in case you need it.Buy a copy of the book if you want to . . .Learn English through Italian.Pick up some new phrases and expressions.

Thank you for your interest in the Italian for Beginners audiocourse by Audioacademyeu. The course is designed for absolute and "false" beginners. So if you started learning Italian some time ago and now want to brush up on the basics, this is the right audiocourse for you. The course is based on contextual learning, which means that you will not only learn words, but also sentences in which you can use the words you have learned. In this course you will find a total of 2,500 vocabulary wo...

Cat Callow narrates this smoky, jazz-backed audiobook with dark, jazzy vibes. In the Callow syndicate, loyalty is a myth, legacy is written in blood, and the soundtrack is lethal raw feminine rage. Step into Inappropriate Jazz: The Potentially True Stories Of a Girls'-Girl Burlesque Jazz Group, a groundbreaking narrative audiobook and soundtrack combo where the story is the music and the music is the story.Experience musical interludes perfectly me...

Around 1903 the Italian Mafia in New Orleans experienced a rash of dissension involving grocery merchants. Rivals attacked the family of Antonio Luciano, resulting in the murder of his brother Salvatore Luciano. The violence occurred in the aftermath of Mafia investment in a Donaldsonville, Louisiana pasta factory. Several investors, particularly Francesco Genova, moved to takeover the business at the Lucianos' expense. Genova, aka Francesco Mattesi, was also linked to New York City counte...

Comprising 750-pages of carefully sequenced jazz piano knowledge, the Jazz Piano Fundamentals series represents the most complete jazz piano curriculum in the world. Throughout the book's thirty-six units, master-teacher Jeremy Siskind provides welcoming, clear, and detailed instruction that includes lessons, improvisation exercises, written practice, licks, listening guides, and practice plans in hopes that your jazz piano learning experience is organized, produc...

Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 2) is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind’s welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to intermediate jazz piano study.Jazz Piano Fundamentals (Book 2) guides intermediate jazz students through six months (or more) of jazz piano instruction by providing clear, thoughtful, and progressive lessons, improvisation exercises, rote exercises, written exercises, listening guides, transcription projects, and practice plans. Every unit i...

"An extraordinary collection. . . . Essential and fascinating . . . not just for Italian-Americans but for everyone who cares about good writing" (Martin Scorsese).This anthology—the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors—is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the...

Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War I, it quickly became part of the local music culture. In Italy, thanks to the gramophone and radio, many Italian listeners paid little attention to a performer's national and ethnic identity. Nick LaRocca (Italian-American), Gorni Kramer (Italian), the Trio Lescano (Jewish-Dutch), and Louis Ar...

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) is recognized as one of the great composers and orchestra leaders of the twentieth century and is credited for raising jazz to its highest plateau. He remained musically active through his entire life, creating a prolific musical output. Ellingtonia: The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidemen compiles Ellington's entire musical catalog from the first recording session in July 1923 to the last concert in March 1974.More ...

Thirty-Six Jazz Practice Ideas to Get the Most from Your Real BookYou may know about the REAL BOOK, but what you probably don’t know is how much MUSICAL PROGRESS can be accomplished with only a single fake book!Don’t know what to practice? Don’t want to waste valuable time?Based on years of university-level teaching, the author of this book gives jazz musicians:Simple, focused melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic strategies on how to use...

Jazz Piano Fundamentals is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind’s welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to the first stages of jazz piano study. This two-book set contains enough material to study for more than a year. Each book contains twelve units that each present lessons, exercises, licks, activities, listening guides, and practice plans to keep studies organized, productive, and creative.Book 1 presents improvisation, chord symbols, leadsheet reading, voicings, swin...

This is the colourful account of swing trumpeter Max Kaminsky's life on the road in the formative years of jazz. Originally published in 1963, Kaminsky reminisces about playing with many notables, including Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, James P. Johnson, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell, Artie Shaw and Jack Teagarden.A wonderful autobiographical work."Max Kaminsky has written so realistically about the music world that you feel you, person...