The discovery of a set of black-and-white photograph negatives has sent Annie Dawson searching for answers to why they were secreted away behind the portrait of her grandparents ... The negatives hearken back to the heyday of the jazz scene in New York City in the late 1940s. Obviously of professional quality, the negatives lead Annie down a mysterious pathway as she and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club track down how Annie's grandparents...

"While sitting on the sales floor of the music shoppe waiting to be adopted, Murphy the saxophone is stolen by robbers! Before long he finds himself hundreds of miles away wondering if his dream of finding a home will come true..."-Provide by back cover.

Retired from law, Ben Kincaid is forced to return to the bar when a caseand a corpsefall in his lap After years of struggling, Ben Kincaid shuts down his small legal office and decides to make a living doing something thatcompared to practicing law in Tulsais easy money: playing jazz piano. He buys a minivan to haul his gear, and gets steady gigs playing in a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. His new career is just starting to take off when a body...

A New York jazz musician suddenly finds himself stuck between Earth and the afterlife.

Much has been written about Louis Armstrong, but the majority of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his long career. Now, Ricky Riccardi--jazz scholar and musician--takes an in-depth look at the years in which Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoonish, if popular, entertainer, and shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of expression that his music evinced during this time. These are the years (from after World War II until his...

Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."