Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time around

Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time around

by Bill Crow (Author)

Synopsis

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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: 2
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 27 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 0195187954
ISBN 13: 9780195187953

Media Reviews
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 *
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 *
Author Bio

Bill Crow is a free-lance musician in the New York City area. He writes a monthly humor column for Allegro, published monthly by Local 802, American Federation of Musicians.