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Table of Contents:
PART 1: AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jelly Roll Morton Sidney Bechet Louis Armstrong Willie "The Lion" Smith Duke Ellington Sonny Greer Leora Henderson Art Hodes Buck Clayton Hoagy Carmichael Eddie Condon Mary Lou Williams Cab Calloway Lionel Hampton John Hammond Count Basie Billie Holiday Mezz Mezzrow Artie Shaw Charlie Barnet Max Gordon Anita O'Day Milt Hinton Art Blakey Milt Gabler Miles Davis Willie Ruff Art Pepper Charles Mingus Hamton Hawes Paul Desmond Cecil Taylor Anthony Braxton PART 2: REPORTAGE King Oliver: A Very Personal Memoir by Edmond Souchon, M.D. A Music of the Streets by Fredrick Turner The Blues of Jimmy by Vincent McHugh Jack Teagarden by Charles Edward Smith Even His Feet Look Sad by Whitney Balliett The Cutting Sessions by Rex Stewart Thomas “Fats” Waller by John S. Wilson Sunshine Always Opens Out by Whitney Balliett The Poet: Bill Evans by Gene Lees Black Like Him by Francis Davis The House in the Heart by Bobby Scott The Big Bands by George T. Simon Homage to Bunny by George Frazier The Spirit of Jazz by Otis Ferguson The Mirror of Swing by Gary Giddins Jimmie Lunceford by Ralph J. Gleason Two Rounds of the Battling Dorseys by Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey Jazz Orchestra in Residence, 1971 by Carol Easton Flying Home by Rudi Blesh The Fabulous Gypsy by Gilbert S. McKean Minton’s by Ralph Ellison Minton’s Playhouse by Dizzy Gillespie At the Hi-De-Ho by Hampton Hawes Bird by Miles Davis Waiting for Dizzy by Gene Lees An Evening with Monk by Dan Morgenstern Theloious and Me by Orrin Keepnews John Coltrane by Nat Hentoff Bessie Smith: Poet by Murray Kempton Mahalia Jackson by George T. Simon Lady Day Has Her Say by Billie Holiday The Untold Story of the International Sweethearts fo Rhythm by Marian McPartland A Starr is Reborn by Gary Giddins Moonbeam Moscowitz: Sylvia Syms by Whitney Balliet The Lindy by Marshall and Jean Stearns A Night at the Five Spot by Martin Williams You Dig It, Sir by Lillian Ross Johnny Green by Fred Hall Jazz in America by Jean-Paul Sartre Don’t Shoot—We’re Americans! by Steve Voce Goffin, Esquire, and the Moldy Figs by Leonard Feather PART 3: CRITICISM Bechet and Jazz Visit Europe, 1919 by Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet Harpsichords and Jazz Trumpets by Roger Pryor Dodge Conclusions by Winthrop Sargeant Has Jazz Influenced the Symphony? by Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein No Jazz is an Island by William Grossman The Unreal Jazz by Hugues Panassié All What Jazz? by Philip Larkin The Musical Achievement by Eric Hobsbawm King Oliver by Larry Gushee Bix Beiderbecke by Benny Green James P. Johnson by Max Harrison Coleman Hawkins by Dan Morgenstern Not for the Left Hand Alone by Martin Williams Time and the Tenor by Graham Colombé Bop by LeRoi Jones On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz by Ralph Ellison Why Did Ellington “Remake” His Masterpiece? by André Hodeir On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis by Stanley Crouch Space Is the Place by Gene Santoro Easy to Love by Dudley Moore Bessie Smith by Humphrey Lyttelton Billie Holiday by Benny Green Cult of the White Goddess by Will Friedwald Ella Fitzgerald by Henry Pleasants The Divine Sarah by Gunther Schuller The Blues as Dance Music by Albert Murray Local Jazz by James Lincoln Collier Fifty Years of “Body and Soul” by Gary Giddins Everycat and Birdland Mon Amor by Francis Davis Bird Land by Stanley Crouch Louis Armstrong: an American Genius by Dan Morgenstern A Bad Idea, Poorly Executed...by Orrin Keepnews

About the Author :
Robert Gottlieb is the former Editor-in-Chief of Alfred A. Knopf and of The New Yorker. He is the dance critic for the New York Observer and author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker. He has previously edited Reading Jazz, Reading Lyrics (with Robert Kimball), the Everyman's Library edition of The Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling, and The Journals of John Cheever.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780679781110
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 1088
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0679781110
  • Publisher Date: 26 Oct 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 47 mm
  • Weight: 782 gr


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