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The producer : John Hammond and the soul of American music / Dunstan Prial.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML429.H26 P75 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prial, Dunstan, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hammond, John, 1910-1987.
- Hammond, John.
- Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.
- Sound recording executives and producers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
- Summary:
- John Hammond's life is a gripping story of music, money, fame, and racial conflict, played out in the nightclubs and recording studios. A pioneering producer and talent spotter, Hammond discovered Billie Holliday, Count Basie, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
- Contents:
- The basement on east ninety-first street
- An education
- An emerging voice
- Discovery
- Convergence
- Further and further afield
- A minor revolution
- Café society
- A family
- At war at home
- Vanguard
- A second act
- The A&R man
- Jackson, Mississippi
- June 15, 1963
- A marvelous audition
- SRV.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes discography : pages [313]-326.
- ISBN:
- 0374113041
- OCLC:
- 60373568
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374113049
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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