Mitchell & Ruff : an American profile in jazz / William Zinsser ; foreword by Albert Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zinsser, William, 1922-2015.

Standardized Title:

Willie and Dwike

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, Dwike.

Ruff, Willie.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 191 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Other Title:

Mitchell and Ruff

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2000.

Summary:

This portrait of jazz musicians Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell tells both how they became musicians and how they give the gift of jazz to communities that would otherwise not have access to this powerful music. Born into Southern homes long before the civil rights era began, Ruff and Mitchell became successful musicians with degrees from two of the country's most elite conservatories. Willie & Dwike follows the musicians to Shanghai, where they bring jazz to China; to the Midwest, where they demonstrate their talents to audiences usually ignored by musicians; to New York City, where Mitchell teaches a new generation of talented but untrained musicians; and to Venice, where Ruff travels back to the roots of Western music in order to understand jazz's legacy.

Notes:

Originally published: Willie and Dwike. New York : Harper & Row, 1984.

ISBN:

0966491343

9780966491340

OCLC:

44860921