From Birdland to Broadway : Scenes from a Jazz Life

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crow, Bill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Anecdotes.

Local Subjects:

Jazz--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1950's, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the incomparable Charlie ""Bird"" Parker boasted lifesize photo murals of modern jazzmen like Dizzy Gillespie, Lennie Tristano, and, of course, Bird himself, looming large against jet black walls. Exotic live birds perched in cages behind the bar. The midget master of ceremonies, 3'9"" Pee Wee Marquette, dressed in a zoot suit and loud tie, smoked

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Birdland; 2. The Big Town; 3. Home, School, and the Army; 4. Tacoma, Baltimore, and Washington; 5. Seattle; 6. Coast to Coast; 7. Charlie's; 8. Jam Sessions; 9. Scuffling; 10. Dave Lambert; 11. Tupper Lake; 12. More Scuffling; 13. "The Music Goes 'Round and Around,"; 14. West Tenth Street; 15. S.S. Uruguay; 16. Gigging Around; 17. Slim Gaillard, Stan Getz; 18. Pee Wee Marquette; 19. Papa Jo; 20. Stan the Man; 21. Claude Thornhill; 22. Gene Quill; 23. Terry Gibbs; 24. The Marian McPartland Trio; 25. Jazz Records; 26. Popsie Randolph

27. Vic Dickenson 28. Bird; 29. Gerry Mulligan; 30. Duke Ellington; 31. Garner & Monk; 32. Pee Wee Russell; 33. All Around Town; 34. Dave Lambert, Last Chorus; 35. The Gerry Mulligan Quartet; 36. Europe; 37. Good Gigs; 38. The Concert Jazz Band; 39. Judy Holliday; 40. The Sherwood Inn; 41. Benny Goodman; 42. The Half Note; 43. Japan; 44. Al the Waiter; 45. Condon's, the Playboy Club; 46. Comedians; 47. The Studios; 48. Lainie Kazan; 49. Peter Duchin; 50. Doubling in Brass; 51. 42nd Street; 52. Jazz Anecdotes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-987973-7

0-19-535902-X

1-4294-0781-6

OCLC:

779826618