Those Swinging Years

Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included Cherokee, Pompton Turnpike, and Skyliner. But he was also the first to break the color barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge, and singer Lena Horne; his white musicians included Jack Purvis, Red Norvo, Maynard Ferguson, and Doc Severinson. Barnet not only played jazz, he lived the jazz life: in this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages. Charlie Barnet epitomised the jazz age, and there are few memoirs as lively as Those Swinging Years.

Author: Charlie Barnet
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 12/01/1992
Pages: 225
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780306804922

About the Author
Charles Daly Barnet(1913-1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.