Jazz Anecdotes Second Time Around

Name: Jazz Anecdotes Second Time Around
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ISBN: 9780195187953

ISBN-10: 0195187954

ISBN-13: 9780195187953

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Bill Crow

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This second edition will feature new anecdotes involving Benny Goodman, Billy Taylor, Jackie Gleason, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis and many more as well as a new foreword by Crow. "Read this somewhere where you're not afraid to be seen laughing out loud....Everyone should be able to find something to like in this rich collection"--Library Journal "A scintillating omnium gathering of jazz talk." --Washington Post "Guarantees up to a thousand laughs...recommended withoutreservation."--Los Angeles Times "The intense sociological hothouse that was the jazz and commercial music world has cooled down greatly over the years, but it's important to have books like this to remind us how exciting…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Wild Scenes



The Word "Jazz"



Beginnings



Inventions



Pianos



Teachers and Students



Stage Fright



Reading Music



Hiring and Firing



Managers, Agents, and Bosses



On the Road



Arrangers and Arrangements



Cutting Contests



52nd Street



Jazz Records



Jazz on the Air



The Well-dressed Jazz Musician



Prejudice



Songs



Goofs



Pranks



The Put-on



Good Lines



Nicknames



Louis Armstrong



Bessie Smith



Bix Beiderbecke



Thomas "Fats" Waller



Eddie Condon



Pee Wee Russell



Duke Ellington and His Orchestra



Benny Goodman



Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young



Art Tatum and His Children



Joe Venuti



Tommy Dorsey



Lionel Hampton



Charlie Parker



John Birks Gillespie



Charles Mingus



Zoot Sims and Al Cohn



Miles Davis and John Coltrane



Jokes


Acknowledgments


Index