Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville
The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. He was working on this-the second volume-for some years before his death in 1994. Beginning with an extended portrait of Buddy Bolden as recalled by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson as well as Barker himself, this book draws together a lifetime of stories and the vivid characters who populated Storyville.Danny Barker (1909-1994) sang and played the guitar and banjo on over 1,000 jazz, swing, blues, and bebop records. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Endowme…
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Weitere Autoren: Shipton, Alyn (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8264-5702-8
- EAN: 9780826457028
- Produktnummer: 9597915
- Verlag: Continuum 3Pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B16.5 cm x D1.3 cm 290 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 290
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Danny Barker (1900-94) was one of the great originals of jazz, a witty singer and performer, and a member of some of the most prestigious bands in jazz history, including those led by Henry Allen, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter and Lucky Millinder. Alyn Shipton presents jazz radio programmes for the BBC and is a critic for The Times in London. He is the author of several books on music as well as a music publisher and editor. His most recent book is Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie published by Oxford University Press in 1999, voted Book of the Year by Jazz Times and winner of the 2000 ARSC award for best research in recorded sound.
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