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Anacortes Public Library (APL) welcomes you to the Jazz at the Library website. Located on Fidalgo Island in beautiful Anacortes, WA, the APL features an extensive collection of books, CDs, and DVDs about the uniquely American art of Jazz and Swing music. Funded by a generous endowment from the estate of Dominic and Patricia Manieri, the collection represents the entire history of Jazz, from the Juke joints and cathouses of New Orleans to the swank modern jazz clubs of New York and Chicago. Collection curator, Paul de Barros, Jazz critic for the Seattle Times, has compiled an incredible array of Jazz and Swing material, all available for check-out from the library.
In addition to the collection, the APL helps to fund and foster jazz education in the public schools through grants, sponsors local jazz events (including the monthly "2nd Sunday" concerts at the library), and is committed to the preservation and proliferation of jazz and swing through education, entertainment, and the collection itself.
Spend some time exploring Jazz at the Library. Look around the site. Come in to see and hear the collection. Celebrate jazz with us.
Artist of the Month
Eric Dolphy
“This is not music to roller skate by,” wrote A.B. Spellman of jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy’s 1964 release Out to Lunch. Consisting entirely of compositions written by Dolphy, Out to Lunch demands attention from the listener from its first notes. By the third song on the album, Dolphy has taken the lead on three different instruments (alto sax, flute, and bass clarinet), and the listener through a synthesis of avant-garde, bebop, and free jazz. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recording describes the album as a “the compositionally sophisticated work of a man finding his voice,” but it would be Dolphy’s last recording, and the end to a short, intense and influential recording career.
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Trivia Question of the Month
One of Nina Simone's most well know songs was, "My Baby Just Cares For Me". What year was that song writtten, and who wrote the words and the music?
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