Bøger af Jeff Gold

A rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold and featuring exclusive interviews with Quincy Jones, Sonny Rollins, Robin Givhan, Jason Moran, and Dan Morgenstern.In the two decades before the Civil Rights movement, jazz nightclubs were among the first places that opened their doors to both Black and white performers and club goers in Jim Crow America. In this extraordinary collection, Jeff Gold looks back at this explosive moment in the history of Jazz and American culture, and the spaces at the center of artistic and social change. Sittin’ In is a visual history of jazz clubs during these crucial decades when some of the greatest names in in the genre—Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, and many others—were headlining acts across the country. In many of the clubs, Black and white musicians played together and more significantly, people of all races gathered together to enjoy an evening’s entertainment. House photographers roamed the floor and for a dollar, took picture of patrons that were developed on site and could be taken home in a keepsake folder with the club’s name and logo.Sittin’ In tells the story of the most popular club in these cities through striking images, first-hand anecdotes, true tales about the musicians who performed their unforgettable shows, notes on important music recorded live there, and more. All of this is supplemented by colorful club memorabilia, including posters, handbills, menus, branded matchbooks, and more. Inside you’ll also find exclusive, in-depth interviews conducted specifically for this book with the legendary Quincy Jones; jazz great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins; Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan; jazz musician and creative director of the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran; and jazz critic Dan Morgenstern.Gold surveys America’s jazz scene and its intersection with racism during segregation, focusing on three crucial regions: the East Coast (New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington, D.C.); the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City); and the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco). This collection of ephemeral snapshots tells the story of an era that helped transform American life, beginning the move from traditional Dixieland jazz to bebop, from conservatism to the push for personal freedom.

"Past Lives: The Covenant," is a psychological thriller involving murder, international art fraud, deception and the robbery of one of the world's greatest treasures, The Sapphire Dragon, a dagger and sheath made for a Chinese Emperor over a thousand years ago. Three men, Jimmy, Victor and Frank steal The Sapphire Dragon with inside help from Chicago's Field Museum. Jimmy, out of greed kills Victor and Frank with the treasured dagger at the scene of the crime, which spawns a covenant of revenge and retribution. However, before dying, Frank a large man follows Jimmy to the arranged hiding place in a cemetery, knocks him unconscious and buries him alive. We hear Jimmy waking up in the crypt. He struggles trying to discover where he is. Finally, he knows and lets out a scream that no one hears. Through the passion and belief of reincarnation, the three men are back in this century. The two betrayed partners, Victor and Frank find each other in today's world and come up with a plan to find Jimmy and learn where the valuable Sapphire Dragon is that was never recovered. Victor and Frank have to find a way to pry into Jimmy's mind because Jimmy, today is another person and has no clue about any of this. Victor and Frank have to find a way to delve into his mind and take him back to the past century to get him to remember. During this process, Victor and Frank arrange with a major criminal Swiss art dealer to sell him the Sapphire Dragon. They decide to prepare a fake in the event that they cannot get the original; they decide to sell him the fake one anyway. The Swiss is wanted in the US for art fraud and since art fraud is linked to money laundering and drug trafficking, he is wanted on those charges too. As a result the Swiss cannot enter the country so they arrange to meet in the Bahamas to sell the Sapphire Dragon. While the Swiss does agree to the deal, the plot is filled with corruption and evil doing on both sides and he pulls a jaw-dropper on the conspirators. The Interpol has been tracking them and the conspirators use their escape route through Mexico while the Swiss makes it back to Switzerland where Interpol is waiting to extradite him back to the US.

Have you ever thought of why companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Xerox are great companies and why they have sustained excellence over the years? Or why some countries like Finland, Norway, and Denmark have some of the best public services in the world, keeping them at the top of the world happiness index for decades? And why some individuals are achieving better results than others? On the other hand, have you thought of why 50% of the Fortune 500 disappear every 10 years? Or why some countries stagnate in the same place for decades, sometimes becoming worse in every aspect? It is not only about leadership, not only about people, not about technology, and not just about fortune. So, what is it? It is LEARNING. Learning is the only sustainable competitive and collaborative advantage that an individual, an organization or a government can have. Without learning, we repeat our mistakes and become worse, but with learning, we find solutions to our fundamental problems. If we are able to learn effectively and apply what we learn, we will become better in every aspect. Individuals will unleash their potential and accomplish what they aspire to. Organizations will realise their visions and accomplish their strategic objectives, government agencies will satisfy their customers and improve the quality of life; ultimately, we will have life-long learning nations. The challenge with learning is that it is so complicated because people and organizations learn in different ways and different speeds. There is no 'one-size-fits-all, ' yet we need some guidelines. We need to see some examples so that we can learn from them; we need to know what to do. As Edward Deming once said, people do not mind doing their best, but they need to know what to do. Developed by Alaa Garad and Jeff Gold the Learning Driven-Organization model answers to the most difficult questions about performance improvement, excellence, resilience and sustainability; the Learning-Driven Organisation Model [LDO] comprises of three subsystems and covers all the three levels of learning: Individual, Team and Organisation-wide. The model caters for 8 stakeholders, offers more than 46 advantages to organisations and their stakeholders and it is informed by evidence from research and builds on review of an enormous number of documents, records, manuals, emails, and guidelines (over 3,000 artifacts)

Golf¿s Forgotten Legends is the most interesting, intriguing, controversial, and humorous golf book ever written.

Golf's Forgotten Legends is the most interesting, intriguing, controversial, and humorous golf book ever written.

Written by leading academics, this book provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the theory and practice of HRD. This edition has been fully revised throughout and features contemporary case studies, chapter introductions and additional coverage of key debates in the field. It is essential reading for any student of HRD.