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This is bop : Jon Hendricks and the art of vocal jazz / Peter Jones.
LIBRA ML420.H3729 J66 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Peter (Peter Douglas), author.
- Series:
- Popular music history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz singers--United States--Biography.
- Jazz singers.
- Hendricks, Jon, 1921-2017.
- Hendricks, Jon.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Jon Hendricks and the art of vocal jazz
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Biography of Jon Hendricks: hipster, bopster, comic and raconteur, a wordsmith par excellence, and a fearless improviser who took the arts of scatting and vocalese to new heights"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. You've Got Something Money Can't Buy
- 2. Mitigating Circumstances
- 3. We Don't Want No Singers, Man
- 4. The Most Beautiful Thing
- 5. A Mouthful Of Hot Rice
- 6. Everybody Got Tired
- 7. The Mistakes Are The Only Part That's Jazz
- 8. No Chord Is Better Than The Wrong Chord
- 9. We Need You To Control Him
- 10. Keep Smiling.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Jones, Peter (Peter Douglas), This is bop
- ISBN:
- 9781781798744
- 1781798745
- OCLC:
- 1152055650
- Publisher Number:
- 99986333177
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