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Singers and the Song II
Av Gene Lees
E-bok, 1999
135 kr
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Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song , which appeared in 1987. Now this classic volume is being rereleased in an expanded edition. The new edition retains a number of famous pieces from the original …
Meet Me at Jim and Andy's
Jazz Musicians and Their World
Av Gene Lees
Inbunden, 1989
716 kr
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Jim and Andy's in New York was one of the city's four musicians' haunts in the 1960s. In a vivid series of portraits, we meet its clientele, an unforgettable gallery of individualists including Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Art Farmer, Billy Taylor, Gerry Mulligan, and Paul Desmond.
Singers and the Song
Av Gene Lees
Häftad, 1990
426 kr
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This book is a celebration of the generation of popular singers which emerged during and after the war: singers such as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Sarah Vaughan. Universally praised as intuitive performers, Gene Lees's expert analysis also shows them to be intelligent, skilful artists, didicated …
Cats of Any Color
Jazz Black and White
Av Gene Lees
Häftad, 1996
267 kr
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It was none other than Louis Armstrong who said, `These people who make the restrictions, they don't know nothing about music. It's no crime for cats of any colour to get together and blow.' In Cats of Any Color, Gene Lees takes a long overdue look at the shocking pervasiveness of racism in jazz's …
Leader of the Band
The Life of Woody Herman
Av Gene Lees
Häftad, 1997
327 kr
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Woody Herman was a central figure in the development of jazz - a musical giant whose career spanned the big band and bebop eras. Gene Lees has spent close to a decade interviewing Herman's friends and fellow musicians, to produce a vivid portrayal of the triumph and tragedy of a life in jazz.We …
Cats of Any Color
Jazz Black and White
Av Gene Lees
E-bok, 1995
114 kr
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It was none other than Louis Armstrong who said, "These people who make the restrictions, they don''t know nothing about music. It''s no crime for cats of any color to get together and blow." "You can''t know what it means to be black in the United States--in any field," Dizzy Gillespie once said, …
You Can't Steal a Gift
Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
Av Gene Lees
Inbunden, 2001
969 kr
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In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat "King" Cole. Equal parts memoir, oral history, and commentary, each of the main chapters is a minibiography, …
Friends Along the Way
A Journey Through Jazz
Av Gene Lees
Inbunden, 2001
978 kr
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A celebrated jazz writer offers fascinating portraits of friends he’s known during a lifetime in jazzFor more than half a century, jazz writer and lyricist Gene Lees has been the friend of many in the world of jazz music. In this delightful book he offers minibiographies of fifteen of these …
Cats Of Any Color
Jazz, Black And White
Av Gene Lees
Häftad, 2000
189 kr
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In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz,both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and the prejudice that Lees documents of some black musicians against their white …
Portrait of Johnny
The Life of John Herndon Mercer
Av Gene Lees
E-bok, 2009
205 kr
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An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends. “Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Satin Doll,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Something’s Gotta …
Oscar Peterson
The Will to Swing
Av Gene Lees
Häftad, 2000
275 kr
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An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and …
