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The jazz years : earwitness to an era / Leonard Feather.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML423.F26 A3 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994.
- Feather, Leonard.
- Music critics--Biography.
- Music critics.
- Jazz.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Leonard Feather's autobiography is also the story of jazz over the last half-century. Since arriving in New York from London in 1935, he has managed to distinguish himself as a producer, composer, pianist, and one of the music's most acute critics. He was one of the first to champion the innovations of bebop in the pages of Esquire and Downbeat, also an ardent campaigner against racial barriers, and a friend to dozens of musicians. There are stories here about Feather's relationship with Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, George Shearing, Joe Williams, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and many others. Filled with information about the recording business and the tricky art of criticism, this earwitness account of a lifetime in jazz caps a career that has been dedicated to the best that American culture has to offer.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Beginnings
- London 5
- New York 14
- Mezz 27
- Benny 32
- Sessions and Excursions 39
- Part 2 Transitions
- Transition 53
- Duke 62
- Press 71
- Goffin, Esquire and the Moldy Figs 76
- Leo 95
- From Dixieland to Bebop 100
- Part 3 Prejudices
- Race 115
- Una to Jutta 127
- Sweethearts 137
- Lady 144
- Toshiko 152
- Melba to Stacy 159
- Part 4 Business and Pleasures
- Business 167
- Recordings: Pre-ban 176
- Dinah and the Blues Years 183
- George 192
- MGM and EOJ 198
- Part 5 Travels
- Westward 211
- USSR 216
- East 223
- Times 231
- Jazz at the White House 236
- Afloat 238
- Holy Land Jazz 247
- Music 255
- Touring: US 1958 and Europe 1972 278
- A Year in the Life 293
- Coda 296
- Honours and Awards 302.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0306794683
- 0306802961
- OCLC:
- 15873953
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