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Ray Brown : his life and music / Jay Sweet.
LIBRA ML418.B76 S84 2025
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sweet, Jay, author.
- Series:
- Popular music history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Double bassists--United States--Biography.
- Double bassists.
- Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.
- Jazz musicians.
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Brown, Ray, 1926-2002.
- Brown, Ray.
- Physical Description:
- x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Ray Brown: His Life and Music is the first full-length biography of Ray Brown, one of the most outstanding practitioners of bass playing in jazz music"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Steel City and the Aluminum Bass (1926-1944)
- Working the Territory (1944-1945)
- Dizzy, Bird, and Bop (1945-1946)
- The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (1946)
- "The New Star" (1947)
- Fitzgerald, Granz, and Peterson (1947-1949)
- Time Changes: Fitzgerald to Peterson (1950)
- The Oscar Peterson Duo and Early Trio (1950-1952)
- Navigating the Changes: Transitions (1953)
- The Studio Recordings of the First Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (1954-1958)
- The JATP Tours and Records (1954-1958)
- The Classic Oscar Peterson Trio with Singers (1954-1958)
- The Session Recordings of the Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (1954-1958)
- Sideman Sessions Without Peterson (1955-1958)
- Bass Hits!, This Is Ray Brown and The Poll Winners (1956-1958)
- The Second Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (Part 1) (1959-1961)
- The Second Classic Oscar Peterson Trio (Part 2) (1962-1965)
- Solo and Sideman Sessions (1959-1965)
- Commercial Studio Efforts (1966-1969)
- Jazz Efforts (1966-1969)
- Sessions (1970-1974)
- The L.A. Four (1974-1983)
- Sideman Sessions (1975-1979)
- Brown's Bag : Albums listing Ray Brown as a Leader (1975-1979)
- Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Monty Alexander, and Notable Sideman Sessions (1980-1984)
- The Ray Brown Trio with Gene Harris and Further Leadership (1980-1991)
- Sideman Sessions (1985-1989)
- Sessions (1990-1994)
- Green and Brown: The Ray Brown Trio (1991-2002)
- Some of My Best Friends and Final Sideman Sessions (1994-2002)
- Super Bass (1991-2000)
- Coda : Remembering Ray Brown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sweet, Jay. Ray Brown
- ISBN:
- 9781800505353
- 1800505353
- OCLC:
- 1427943133
- Publisher Number:
- 90102196049
- CIPO000121888
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