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The long-awaited collaborative jazz album from Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett features Cole Porter's Anything Goes as the first single. It also includes other classic jazz standards sung both as duets or solo performances. Each song was handpicked by the artists, and the album features classic selections from the Great American Songbook such as It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); Sophisticated Lady; Lush Life; and the title track.

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...

After letting his band down by missing rehearsal, Shorty has some serious questions about what it means to be a leader so he hits the New Orleans streets to find some answers.

When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own a good camera, didn't know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone. Could he pull it off? In this collection of poems, Roxane Orgill steps into the frame of Harlem 1958,...

Ruby's loud voice annoys everyone around her, until she learns to control her volume with the help of her new jazz musician friends.