From Birdland to Broadway Scenes from a Jazz Life

Name: From Birdland to Broadway Scenes from a Jazz Life
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ISBN: 9780195085501

ISBN-10: 0195085507

ISBN-13: 9780195085501

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Bill Crow

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New York in the 1950s. On the stage at Birdland is the midget master of ceremonies, 3'9" Pee Wee Marquette, dressed in a zoot suit and loud tie, smoking a huge cigar and screeching mispronounced introductions into the microphone. Pee Wee is just one of the many characters that have made Bill Crow's forty years in jazz seem like an instant. In the same key as his acclaimed Jazz Anecdotes, this collection of revealing, hilarious, and sometimes moving stories runs the fullgamut of New York's nightspots, introducing us along the way to the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Judy Holliday, Yul Brynner, and Simon and Garfunkel.

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.50" wide x 5.55" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English




Birdland



The Big Town



Home, School, and the Army



Tacoma, Baltimore, and Washington



Seattle



Coast to Coast



Charlie's



Jam Sessions



Scuffling



Dave Lambert



Tupper Lake



More Scuffling



"The Music Goes 'Round and Around,"



West Tenth Street



S.S. Uruguay



Gigging Around



Slim Gaillard, Stan Getz



Pee Wee Marquette



Papa Jo



Stan the Man



Claude Thornhill



Gene Quill



Terry Gibbs



The Marian McPartland Trio



Jazz Records



Popsie Randolph



Vic Dickenson



Bird



Gerry Mulligan



Duke Ellington



Garner and Monk



Pee Wee Russell



All Around Town



Dave Lambert, Last Chorus



The Gerry Mulligan Quartet



Europe



Good Gigs



The Concert Jazz Band



Judy Holliday



The Sherwood Inn



Benny Goodman



The Half Note



Japan



Al the Waiter



Condon's, the Playboy Club



Comedians



The Studios



Lainie Kazan



Peter Duchin



Doubling in Brass



42nd Street



Jazz Anecdotes


Index