The Parisian jazz chronicles : an improvisational memoir / by Michael Zwerin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwerin, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--France--Paris--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow, or Hunter S. Thompson-writers to whom, for different reasons, he owes some allegiance. What makes him special is his devotion to the troubled musicians he idolizes, and a passion for music that is blessedly contagious. Many jazz fans will know Mike Zwerin for his witty, irreverent, and undeniably hip music reviews and articles in the International Herald Tribune that have entertained us for decades. Based in Paris, or, rather, stuck there, as Zwerin likes to say, he has been a music critic for the Trib since 1979. Zwerin also had a distinguished career as a trombonist. When he was just eighteen years old, he was invited by Miles Davis to play alongside Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, and Max Roach in the band that was immortalized as The Birth of the Cool.The Parisian Jazz Chronicles offers an engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the 1980's and 1990's. Zwerin writes lovingly but unsparingly about figures he knew and interviewed- such as Dexter Gordon, Freddy Heineken, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Chet Baker, Wayne Shorter, and Melvin Van Peebles. Against this background, Zwerin tells about his own life-split allegiances to journalism and music, and to America and France, his solitary battle for sobriety, a failing marriage, and fatherhood.

Contents:

Poop and hasse-oles : barbershops & whorehouses : Stevie Wonder

Dexter Gordon : life and death in the margin : barbershops & whorehouses : Ornette Coleman and Waylon Jennings

Planeland : bringing up baby : barbershops & whorehouses : Count Basie

The slush pump and the silent letter : barbershops & whorehouses : Elvin Jones

Timothy Leary : voltage smart : barbershops & whorehouses : Janos

jazz in Siberia : left-handed times

barbershops & whorehouses

Willy (Mink) DeVille

Chet Baker : how about a sniffette? : barbershops & whorehouses : Astor Piazzolla

Bob Dylan : Dr. Pitre's nominal aphasia : barbershops & whorehouses : Don Henley

Don Budge : playing with wands : barbershops & whorehouses : Bobby McFerrin

Steppenwolf : brilliant eccentrics : barbershops & whorehouses : Simon and Garfunkel

Kenny G : barbershops & whorehouses : Andy Bey

Miles Davis : a mouthful of words : barbershops & whorehouses : Ice-T

Freddy Heineken : he brew : barbershops & whorehouses : Brad Mehldau

serious music : kulture in the goyish Alps : barbershops & whorehouses : Roswell Rudd

Melvin Van Peebles : gone fishing : barbershops & whorehouses : Steve Lacy

Wayne Shorter : beyond a smile on a face

barbershops & whorehouses : Gil Evans

Orson Welles : patched and peeled in Mogador : barbershops & whorehouses : Dizzy Gillespie

the International Herald Trombone.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611740832

9781281740830

1281740837

9780300127386

0300127383

OCLC:

923588532