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Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: near fine
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
New Zealand Jazz Life by Meehan Norman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Drawing on 39 interviews with leading New Zealand jazz musicians, New Zealand Jazz Life is a ground-breaking survey of the vibrant local scene. In best jazz style, eight solos - first-person portraits of major musicians - alternate with ensemble passages that enlarge on the key themes: discovering jazz ...Show more
Serious Fun - The Life and Music of Mike Nock by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Serious fun is the vibrant and accessible life story of one of New Zealand’s greatest musicians. Mike Nock’s childhood in 1940s Ngaruawahia and Nelson, and his adventures as a young teenager on the road with the Fabulous Flamingoes, and Maori rock’n’roll pioneer Johnny Cooper, are the stuff of Kiwi lege ...Show more
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