Growing up with Jazz Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers

Name: Growing up with Jazz Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers
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ISBN: 9780195159271

ISBN-10: 0195159276

ISBN-13: 9780195159271

Edition: 2004

Authors: W. Royal Stokes

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A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them. Stokes offers a kaleidoscopic look at the jazz scene, featuring musicians from a dazzling array of backgrounds. Ray Gelato recalls the life of a working class youth in London, Patrizia Scascitelli recounts being a child prodigy in Rome who became the first woman of Italian jazz, and Billy Taylor tells about his childhood in Washington, DC, where his…

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List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100