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The Lady Swings Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer / Dottie Dodgion & Wayne Enstice ; foreword by Carol Sloane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodgion, Dottie, 1929- author.
- Enstice, Wayne, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Music in American Life
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women jazz musicians.
- Women drummers (Musicians).
- Jazz musicians.
- Drummers (Musicians).
- Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.
- Women jazz musicians--United States--Biography.
- Drummers (Musicians)--United States--Biography.
- Women drummers (Musicians)--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Dodgion, Dottie, 1929-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships, she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men's club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a "man's instrument" in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Prefatory Notes
- Introduction
- Part I. The California Years
- Scene One: On the Road
- Scene Two: Spot
- Behind The Scenes One: The Giaimos
- Scene Three: Eleanor Powell's Shoes
- Behind The Scenes Two: The Tiptons
- Scene Four: The Eight-Day Clock
- Scene Five: Polio
- Scene Six: Jail Bait
- Scene Seven: TD&
- L
- Scene Eight: Mingus
- Scene Nine: Apple Pie, Apple Pie, Apple Pie
- Scene Ten: A Little Help from My Friends
- Scene Eleven: The Drummer Was Always Late
- Scene Twelve: Monty
- Scene Thirteen: Jerry
- Scene Fourteen: 176 Steps
- Behind The Scenes Three: Eugene's Lessons
- Scene Fifteen: First Time in Vegas
- Scene Sixteen: Followed by Myself in the Moonlight
- Scene Seventeen: The It Club
- Scene Eighteen: Thunderbird
- Part II. The New York and East Coast Years
- Scene Nineteen: 14 Drummers
- Scene Twenty: Mount Airy Lodge
- Scene Twenty-One: Strollers
- Scene Twenty-Two: The Village Stompers
- Scene Twenty-Three: Eddie Condon's
- Behind The Scenes Four: Pearls to Swine
- Scene Twenty-Four: Park Ridge
- Scene Twenty-Five: Piano Party
- Behind The Scenes Five: Ruby
- Scene Twenty-Six: Suburban Housewife
- Scene Twenty-Seven: In the Middle of the Brook
- Scene Twenty-Eight: Harold's Rogue and Jar
- Scene Twenty-Nine: Melba Liston and Company
- Scene Thirty: Fazee Cakes
- Part III. California Redux
- Scene Thirty-One: The Best Kept Secret in Town
- Scene Thirty-Two: A Leader at Sixty-Five
- Scene Thirty-Three: Pacific Grove
- Scene Thirty-Four: Nonagenarian
- Postscript
- Notes
- Selected Discography
- Index
- Illustrations
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252043598
- 0252043596
- OCLC:
- 1246445308
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