Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic "Strange Fruit" made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song "I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?" And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.

Black and Blue: Jazz Stories

Arts & Photography

Péan, Stanley

Music

Véhicule Press

In the taxi rides you're about to take, you'll be in the company of some classic drivers and of a perspicacious and sharp-eyed passenger, the writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Veteran translator David Homel, who introduced readers of English to Dany Laferrière with the publication of How to Make to Love to a Negro, now brings us the other major voice of Haitian Montreal: Stanley Péan, here in English for the first time.

Taximan: Stories and Anecdotes from the Back Seat

Literature & Fiction

United States

Linda Leith Publishing

About the Horror and Fantasy series  by Stanley Péan: In Stanley Péan's fantastical stories, unearthly creatures and supernatural phenomena shatter an almost insignificant reality. Discretion advised!  About the Roman + series: Designed for teenagers, the Roman + series addresses themes that today's adolescents face. The series features romance, suspense, science fiction, horror and more...

LA Memoire Ensanglantee (Roman +, 32) (French Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

LA Courte Echelle

About the Horror and Fantasy series by Stanley Péan: In Stanley Péan's fantastical stories, unearthly creatures and supernatural phenomena shatter an almost insignificant reality. Discretion advised! 
 About the Roman + series: Designed for teenagers, the Roman + series addresses themes that today's adolescents face. The series features romance, suspense, science fiction, horror and more...

L'Appel Des Loups (Roman +, 45) (French Edition)

Popaul is afraid of everything: spiders, cats, people... but most of all, his shadow! His worried parents can't seem to comfort him, until Mamie Justine comes to visit.  Picture books from the Il était une fois... series: Each book in this series is a world of its own. Tender, moving or fantastical, these are wonderful stories to be read aloud.

UN Petit Garcon Qui Avait Peur De Tout Et De Rien (Il Etait Une Fois, 8) (French Edition)

Children's Books

About the Horror and Fantasy series   by Stanley Péan:  In Stanley Péan's fantastical stories, unearthly creatures and supernatural phenomena shatter an almost insignificant reality. Discretion advised!    About the Roman + series:  Designed for teenagers, the Roman + series addresses themes that today's adolescents face. The series features romance, suspense, science fiction, horror and more...

Le Temps S'Enfuit (Roman +, 56) (French Edition)

BIZANGO

Genre Fiction

ALLUSIFS

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