Jazz Anecdotes

by Bill Crow (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $5.84

  Drawing on interviews, biographies and the archives of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, this collection of essays provides portraits of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Eddie Condon. Ranging from stage fright to stardom, racism to the importance of a good nickname, these stories offer fresh perspectives on the life of a jazz musician, and unique insights into the historical and social impact of jazz on 20th-century America.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.40

  Ranging from stage fright to stardom, racism to the importance of a good nickname, these stories offer fresh and often hilarious insights into the joys and woes of a jazz musician's life. Topping the bill are such giants of jazz as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Eddie Condon, who seemed to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. The book is intended for jazz enthusiasts and a wider audience fascinated by colourful characters and the unusual and unique world that jazz inhabits.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $18.86

  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 without reservation. -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 and invigorating those days were...Don't let it slip by. -Allegro