Questlove
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Questlove--musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore--shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life. In Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he's heard from the many creators and collaborators in his life, and reflects on his own experience, to advise readers...
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Grand Central Publishing
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Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
7) Mixtape potluck: a cookbook : a dinner party for friends, their recipes, and the songs they inspire
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Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2019
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"Questlove is best known for his achievements in the music world, but his interest in food runs a close second. He has hosted a series of renowned Food Salons and conversations with some of America's most prominent chefs. Now he is turning his hand to creating a cookbook. In Mixtape Potluck Cookbook, Questlove imagines the ultimate potluck dinner party, inviting more than fifty chefs, entertainers, and musicians--such as Eric Ripert, Natalie Portman,...
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Hip Hop The Songs That Shook America volume 1
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JESUS WALKS by Kanye West: In an era of excess, a Christian rap song challenges the church.
Author
Description
A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world. He digs deep into the album cuts of his life and unearths some pivotal moments in black art, hip hop, and pop culture.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is many things: virtuoso drummer, producer, arranger, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon bandleader,...
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"In 1970, in soundstage on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a group of men and women of various ages and races met to finish the first season of a children's TV program. They had identified a social problem: poor children were entering kindergarten without the learning skills of their middle-class counterparts. They hoped, too, that they had identified a solution: to use television to better prepare these disadvantaged kids for school. No one knew then,...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
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In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten,...
13) The idea in you
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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The sky is the limit when inspiration strikes and a new idea starts to take shape in your mind.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"A rock band on the cusp of massive stardom, Unlocking the Truth is made up of three thirteen-year-old African American boys: Malcolm, Jarad, and Alec. When not in school they spend their time as rock stars opening for the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Motorhead, and Guns N' Roses, and crowd surfing at Coachella. They are currently working on their soon to be released debut EP. The key to their success: hard work, dedication, passion, and focus...
15) Ponte creativo
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Temas De Hoy
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Creatividad y arte son una pareja infiel. Quizá suene raro, pero sirva un voto de confianza: quien dice esto es Questlove, exitoso músico estadounidense, cofundador de The Roots, una de las mejores bandas de hip hop del momento y productor, periodista, diseñador y profesor. Un experto en la materia y una de las pocas voces críticas que se baja del pedestal para contarnos que hay mucho arte fuera del arte. En Ponte Creativo, Ahmir Khalib Thompson,...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After three decades as the colorful bandleader to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, master trumpeter Doc Severinsen defies nature with a relentless schedule of touring and performing into his nineties. A musical icon traces his groundbreaking career and personal trials underscoring a life of inspiration and obsession. In 2018, at the age of 90, Doc Severinsen is still going strong as he leaves home and sets off on a performance tour. At the...
17) Soul
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Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
18) Sample this
Pub. Date
2013
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Recounts how, on the streets of the Bronx in the summer of 1973, DJ Herc took the percussion breaks from an obscure album by the Incredible Bongo Band and extended them by playing them back to back.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
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A music documentary about the changing face of the music business. Lorde, Melissa Etheridge, Questlove, Sharon Jones, Steve Aoki, Susan Tedeschi, and Derek Trucks perform and discuss their personal history, emergence as stars, and perceptions of the business side of things. Additional artists and heritage artists are also featured, including Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Madonna, and the Ramones.