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James is on page 179 of 215 of Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography
So much of Dexter Gordon’s enduring greatness as an artist involved his unsurpassed abilities as an eloquent speaker and singer on his instrument. His inimitable introductions to songs—“suddenly . . . I saw . . . polka dots and moonbeams . . . all around a pug-nosed . . . dream . . .”taught me so much about the magical dance of poetry and melody that is at the core of the music that moves us most deeply. Todd Barkan
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Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography

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James is on page 179 of 215 of Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography
Bebop at Work
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Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography

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James is on page 87 of 215 of Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography
Deep down into life in the jazz lane reveals a community.
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Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography

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James is on page 87 of 215 of Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography
Deep down into life in the jazz lane reveals a community.
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Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography

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James is on page 142 of 400 of Blowout
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Blowout

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James is on page 60 of 290 of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
There are more people in prisons and jails today just for drug offenses than were incarcerated for all reasons in 1980.4 Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs (pp. 60-61).
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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James is on page 358 of 416 of The Water Dancer
The summoning of a story, the water, and the object that made memory real as a brick: that was Conduction. What I might to with such power was not my immediate concern, so much as making it through that day. . . And when supper came, there was a part of me then that glowed bright as Conduction itself, for I knew that I would see Sophia there. And when I did, that evening, I felt myself waling in some​ other world.
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 212 of 416 of The Water Dancer
The Conductions were frequent now . . . The world would suddenly and randomly fall away and moments later I would return . . . Every Conduction seemed activated by a memory, . . . [S]omething was trying to reveal itself to me that some part of my mind, long ago locked away . . . Conduction felt like the breaking and resetting of a bone. . . This no longer felt like freedom, not anymore.
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 358 of 416 of The Water Dancer
The Conductions were frequent now . . . The world would suddenly and randomly fall away and moments later I would return . . . Every Conduction seemed activated by a memory, . . . [S]omething was trying to reveal itself to me that some part of my mind, long ago locked away . . . Conduction felt like the breaking and resetting of a bone. . . This no longer felt like freedom, not anymore.
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 212 of 416 of The Water Dancer
The Conductions were frequent now . . . The world would suddenly and randomly fall away and moments later I would return . . . Every Conduction seemed activated by a memory, . . . [S]omething was trying to reveal itself to me that some part of my mind, long ago locked away . . . Conduction felt like the breaking and resetting of a bone. . . This no longer felt like freedom, not anymore.
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 212 of 416 of The Water Dancer
The Conductions were frequent now . . . The world would suddenly and randomly fall away and moments later I would return . . . Every Conduction seemed activated by a memory, . . . [S]omething was trying to reveal itself to me that some part of my mind, long ago locked away . . . Conduction felt like the breaking and resetting of a bone. . . This no longer felt like freedom, not anymore.
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 212 of 416 of The Water Dancer
The Conductions were more frequent . . . The world would suddenly and randomly fall away and moments later I would return . . . Every Conduction seemed activated by a memory, . . . something was trying to reveal itself to me that some part of my mind, long ago locked away . . . Conduction felt like the breaking and resetting of a bone. . . . This no longer felt like freedom, not anymore.
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 45 of 416 of The Water Dancer
beautiful
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The Water Dancer

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James is on page 207 of 1009 of The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
Ah, the Arthurian legends told in the beautiful language.
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

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James is finished with When Breath Becomes Air
What makes life worth living?
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When Breath Becomes Air

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James is on page 517 of 631 of The Time of Our Singing
Early 1970's. . . There was a war going on . . .the United States versus Vietnam . . .war of consonance against dissonance, electric against acoustic, written against improvised, rhythm against melody, shock against decency, long hair against longhair, past against future, rock against folk against jazz against metal against funk against blues agaisnt pop against gospel against country, black against white.
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The Time of Our Singing

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James is on page 308 of 631 of The Time of Our Singing
We walked down Beale Street, where the baby Blueswssleft out howling. The street felt self-conscious--two blocks of music bars looking like a theme park, the Colonial Williamsburg of the one true American​ art (p.308).
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The Time of Our Singing

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James is on page 279 of 631 of The Time of Our Singing
On August 28, 1963, one-quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. They heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech. This author observes that "not a single drop of blood falls for all the violence of four hundred years (p. 270)." As I read this novel, I guess that maybe each page contains an equally valuable insight that I hold dear.
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The Time of Our Singing

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James is on page 327 of 502 of The Overstory
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The Overstory

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James is on page 316 of 502 of The Overstory
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The Overstory

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James is on page 230 of 502 of The Overstory
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The Overstory

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