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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
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter didn’t pick up a musical instrument until he was fifteen, a relatively late start for a jazz great. He’d always preferred the visual arts, specifically film. It wasn’t until a revelatory moment of hearing Thelonious Monk’s ‘Off Minor’ on the radio that Wayne Shorter’s direction in life was affirmed. “My ears perked up when I heard it, and something just clicked. Bebop music seemed to reflect some of what was happening, or what people wished would happen (Footprints Pg. 27).” Bebop instantly became part of Shorter’s vocabulary and he felt a profound sense that music was the direction he was supposed to take. That sentiment has prevailed through his life, and he’s still challenging himself at the age of 75. “You need to know that life is a process,” he explained in a recent article in Downbeat magazine (May 2009), “and no one can put a process in a can or box and sell it. It’s the process of mastering your life so that you play your life story.”
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Sunday Jazz Hour
Hello, Jazz Fans!
Sunday Jazz Hour at the library, on July 12 at 2PM, proudly welcomes the Bergquist-Nakano Co-op. Jim and Philip will play jazz standards and initiate a conversation concerning jazz music as a Universal Language and the social and political implications thereof. Please join us!
July 12, 2009 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Trivia Question of the Month
Bing Crosby had a brother who was a bandleader. What was the name of that band? The answer to the last trivia question is: Donaldson & Kahn
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