Someone to watch over me : the life and music of Ben Webster / Frank Büchmann-Møller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Büchmann-Møller, Frank.

Series:

Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Jazz perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

a Webster, Ben, 1909-1973.

a Webster, Ben.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]

Contents:

Kansas City childhood (1909-1927)

From piano to saxophone (1927-1931)

From Kansas City to New York (1931-1934)

From smack to Duke (1934-1940)

Golden years with Ellington (1940-1943)

From Fifty-Second Street to Kansas City (1943-1949)

From Kansas City to Monterey (1949-1959)

Last years in the United States (1959-1964)

First years in Europe (1964-1966)

The Dutch years (1966-1969)

The last busy years in Denmark (1969-1973).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-345), discography (pages 323-326), and index.

ISBN:

0472114700

OCLC:

61758011

Publisher Number:

9780472114702