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Title: Hot Jazz
Condition: New
Subtitle: From Harlem to Storyville
ISBN-10: 0810834154
EAN: 9780810834156
ISBN: 9780810834156
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 19/11/1998
Description: David Griffiths interviewed over 30 jazz artists in compiling Hot Jazz. The majority of those interviewed are the important, and oft-overlooked, side-men of the Big Bands of the Thirties and Forties, including Greely Walton, Bill Dillard, Lester Boone, Barclay Draper, Harvey Davis. There are also interviews with band leader Earle Howard and composer Walter Bishop Sr. They all vividly describe the atmosphere and ambience of the Swing Era. Accounts from artists outside the Harlem jazz scene, such as Chicago blues-man Curtis Jones, vocalist Blanche Finlay, and blues singer Lizzie Miles, are also included. Interviewed by Griffiths, these artists describe their background and musical training. They describe the pleasures and sufferings of jazz life, and share memories of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Duke Ellington. These voices from the past and the present merge into a colorful account of one of America's brightest points in musical history. Hot Jazz also contains 18 photographs.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 223mm
Item Length: 147mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 472g
Author: David Griffiths
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Book Series: Studies in Jazz
Release Year: 1998

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