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Cocktail Therapy: The Perfect Prescription for Life's Many Crises
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Forget crying into your beer. When calamity strikes there's a perfect cocktail to ease your woes. During their bartending years, Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey were often witness to all kinds of personal crises. And while others may take refuge with their therapist or on the racquetball court, Leanne and Tracey concluded that the quickest way to beat the blues is with a delicious drink (or two). That hot guy from last week still hasn't called? Try a Pomegranate Martini -- bold, tasty,...more

Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People (Music in American Life)
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9780252034138; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-10-20 Summary: Remembrances NYC Blues/Jazz Scene ... Terry's effort to document and preserve the history of the origins of our musical heritage would have been lost and forgotten if this book hadn't been written. She has accomplished important documentation by preserving these memories which would have been lost. The entire contemporary Jazz/Blues/Soul/Rock scene is based on our past history and the humanist efforts of her husband and a handful of other people who gave these musicians the opportunities to perform, play and record. Terry first contacted me after my father ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-11-05 Summary: Courage, Integrity and Jazz! ... This remarkable book on the development of the early jazz scene in the U.S. is a delight to read. It is also a cultural history of the pre-World War II era when blacks were discriminated against in audience make-up as well as employment. Barney Josephson's wife, Terry Trilling-Josephson, has based her book on tapes of her husband's stories during the last decade of his life and on her many interviews of the early performers and their heirs. The careful research, the tracking down of numerous photographs never before ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-11-02 Summary: A Captivating Memoir ... Although jazz fans will find this captivating memoir a must for their libraries with its first-hand descriptions of some of the legends of the genre (Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Hazel Scott to name just a few), the book has a depth and an appeal far wider than that. It is a cultural history, a close-up description of the turbulent era from the post-depression years with the gradual breakdown of the strictures that had governed society until then. It takes us through the red baiting and the blacklisting of the ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-08-15 Summary: Barney Josephson's Remarkable Story ... The following is a review I have submitted to Jazz & Blues Report which hopefully will appear in its september issue. I remember going to The Cookery when I was living in New York between 1978 and 1983 and having the privilege of seeing Alberta Hunter, Helen Humes and others perform there. What an experience and to hear its proprietor, one Barney Josephson introduce the performers before getting to listen to some American originals. I also remember reading about Cafe Society, legendary night clubs that Josephson operated ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict of American race relations, and the inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Cafe Society tells the personal history of Barney Josephson, proprietor of the legendary interracial New York City night clubs Cafe Society Downtown and Cafe Society Uptown and their successor, The Cookery. Famously known as "the wrong place for the Right people," Cafe Society featured the cream of jazz and blues performers--among...more