Jazz Anecdotes - Hardcover

Crow, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195055888 ISBN 13: 9780195055887

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Drawing on interviews, biographies and the archives of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, this collection of essays provides portraits of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Eddie Condon. Ranging from stage fright to stardom, racism to the importance of a good nickname, these stories offer fresh perspectives on the life of a jazz musician, and unique insights into the historical and social impact of jazz on 20th-century America.

About this title

Review:

A scintillating omnium gathering of jazz talk. (Washington Post)

Guarantees up to a thousand laughs...recommended without reservation. (Los Angeles Times)

The intense sociological hothouse that was the jazz and commercial music world has cooled down greatly over the years, but it's important to have books like this to remind us how exciting and invigorating those days were....Don't let it slip by. (Allegro)

Read this somewhere where you're not afraid to be seen laughing out loud....Everyone should be able to find something to like in this rich collection. (Library Journal)

About the Author:

About the Author Bill Crow is a free-lance musician and a member of the Executive Board of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians in New York City. His articles and reviews have appeared in Downbeat, The Jazz Review, and Gene Lees's Jazzletter. He writes a monthly column for Allegro, the newspaper of Local 802.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0195055888
• ISBN 13: 9780195055887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364