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Da Capo Press
Celebrating the Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy and Other Heroes
Celebrating the Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy and Other Heroes
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"If you want to know what real jazz criticism is, read Celebrating the Duke. It is a fitting memorial to an outstanding critic and writer."--Jazz Journal
Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.
Foreword by Studs TerkelNew introduction by Ira Gitler
Author: Ralph J. Gleason
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 09/01/1995
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.37w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780306806452
Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.
Foreword by Studs TerkelNew introduction by Ira Gitler
Author: Ralph J. Gleason
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 09/01/1995
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.37w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780306806452
About the Author
Jazz and rock critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone, producer, disc jockey, teacher, and vice-president of Fantasy Records, Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was the author of JamSessions and The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound.
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