You Can`t Steal a Gift / Noble S. Proctor, Patrick J. Lynch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proctor, Noble S., Author.

Lynch, Patrick J., Author.

Contributor:

Lynch, Patrick J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993.

Gillespie, Dizzy.

Terry, Clark.

Hinton, Milt.

Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965.

Cole, Nat King.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat "King" Cole. Equal parts memoir, oral history, and commentary, each of the main chapters is a minibiography, weaving together conversations Gene Lees had with the musicians and their families, friends, and associates over a period of several decades.Lees begins the book with an essay that tells of his introduction to the world of jazz and his reaction to racism in the United States when he emigrated from Canada in 1955. The underlying theme in his book is the impact racism had on the four musicians' lives and careers and their determination to overcome it. As Lees writes, "No white person can even begin to understand the black experience in the United States. . . . All [of the four jazz makers] are men who had every reason to embrace bitterness-and didn't."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1. Sudden Immersion

2. Birks and His Works

3. You Gotta Sing

4. We Are Like Atlas

5. King Cole

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300142952

0300142951

OCLC:

1024020066