The uncrowned king of swing : Fletcher Henderson and big band jazz / Jeffrey Magee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magee, Jeffrey, 1961-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952.

Henderson, Fletcher.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Whether placing Fletcher Henderson's life in the context of the Harlem Renaissance or describing how network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era.

Contents:

Out of the jazz tradition

A new Negro from the old South

The "Paul Whiteman of the race"

Inside the strain : the advent of Don Redman

A New Orleans trumpeter in a New York band

A paradox of the race?

Beyond the ballroom

Connie's Inn orchestra

Playing in the mud

Building the kingdom of swing

Never say "never again".

Notes:

"Fletcher Henderson's arrangements for Benny Goodman": pages [245]-271.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-300), discography (pages [301]-303), and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0195090225

OCLC:

54530062