Jules and Marisa Bridges were more than just husband and wife; he was a famous drummer and she was his manager. They were inseparable - they completed each other.   When cancer takes Jules from her, Marisa faces not only immeasurable loss, but a dire financial situation. Desperate to hold on to her Tribeca loft, she takes in renters Martin Starks and Cassandra Blanche. But Cassandra isn't just a bartender at the Bitter End. It turns out she's the celebrated diva CiCi Belle, and she's been hiding from her glittering career and her abusive manager. Martin, a talented, young guitarist, asks her to join his band, and in turn, they ask Marisa to be their manager.   Marisa quickly pedals back into the music business when she takes the band on a challenging European tour that reveals the conflict between those under the lights and those who stand in the wings.    As Marisa grapples with her new independence, she discovers a hidden strength and the possibility "to find the treasure" in living.

The Drummer's Widow

Literature & Fiction

FitzPatrick, Joanna

Women's Fiction

la Drome Press

<p>Katherine Mansfield is a powerfully understated fictional narrative of an author who was determined to make her way¬—and her mark—in London's early 20th Century literary society. A foreigner from New Zealand, Mansfield was never welcomed into the famed Bloomsbury Group, yet she was respected—even revered—by Virginia Woolf, who admitted Mansfield was the only writer who made her jealous. Mansfield’s prolific literary career was on an upward spiral when on her thirtieth birthday her doctors advise her to stop writing, move to a sanatorium, and die quietly of tuberculosis. Her response to this death toll was to become a wandering consumptive who traveled from London to Paris, to the Riviera, and high into the Alps in pursuit of a cure for her health and her soul, and in pursuit of her next short story. Informed by the historic record and interspersed with Mansfield’s own correspondence and diaries, this historical novel guides us through Mansfield's life—her struggles, successes, and setbacks—and inside the debilitating disease that sapped her energy, derailed her marriage, and fostered her growing dependency on a faithful and obsessive caregiver, LM, a woman whose devotion bred equal parts gratitude and resentment.</p>

Katherine Mansfield

Genre Fiction

Students want to learn how to play various grooves. Some can read, some can’t, and some aren’t interested. I felt the most helpful instruction would simply be to play the grooves and let you watch and listen to them. With this in mind I recorded these video clips and put them in loop format so that you can play along with them until you master them. Transcriptions are available in the book for those who want to follow them and see what it all looks like. The book text also includes some tips on individual beats. I did not spend a lot of time on methodical exercises to develop each of the techniques (ghost notes, accents, bass drum doubles, etc), but I’ve included one or two beats for each technique. My book Funk Drumming deals with some of these techniques in a more detailed and methodical fashion. If you find, for example, that your left-hand doubles aren’t cutting it, you’ll have to practice them independently. Likewise with the 16th-note doubles on the bass drum and the constant 16ths on the hi-hat. (The down/up technique is best understood by watching the video clips.) If one particular beat is just too difficult—for instance, a beat with three left-hand ghost notes in a row—skip over that beat and go on to the first rhythms in the next section. It’s more important to understand the general concepts in each section than it is to be able to play the most difficult beats.

Advanced Funk Drumming

Arts & Photography

Payne, Jim

Music

The story of the rhythmic revolution of R&B, funk and soul, as told by the drummers themselves. An illustrated history of their lives and their bands. Includes interviews, discographies, rare photos, transcriptions of over 100 classic R&B and funk rhythms and downloadable mp3 audio files of the author playing 90 of these rhythms. Fascinating for drummers, all musicians and any fan of American popular music.

Give the Drummers Some!

<p>The late, great Tito Puente was a giant in the world of Latin music. This exceptional book/audio package, co-written with Jim Payne, includes an extensive biography of Tito, a history of Afro-Cuban music, archival photos and step-by-step instruction in Afro-Cuban music for timbales and drumset. Words of advice from the Mambo King himself accompany the timbale and drumset instructional examples by Tito and Jim Payne. AND…inside the 187 page book is a link to 53 mp3 audio files including the original recordings of twelve of Tito's classics, the mambos and cha chas that made him famous, along with band director Jose Madera’s authentic hand-written charts for these songs. Also included are transcriptions of three of Tito's most famous timbale solos. “Tito Puente left us his music and now his technique.” - Sam Rodriguez. “The best book on playing Timbales.” - Cuban Music Lover.“More than a little ‘SALSA!’ from the Mambo King!” - D. Koltonon.“More than I bargained for, and worth every penny!”- A. Customeron.</p>

Tito Puente's Drumming with the Mambo King - 2nd Edition

Puente, Tito

Joanna FitzPatrick

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

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The Drummer's Widow

Katherine Mansfield

Advanced Funk Drumming

Give the Drummers Some!

Tito Puente's Drumming with the Mambo King - 2nd Edition

Katherine Mansfield

KATHERINE MANSFIELD