I Remember Jazz: Six Decades Among the Great JazzmenLSU Press, 1 мар. 1999 г. - Всего страниц: 258 Al Rose has known virtually every noteworthy jazz musician of this century. For many of them he has organized concerts, composed songs that they later played or sang, and promoted their acts. He has, when called upon, bailed them out of jail, straightened out their finances, stood up for them at their weddings, and eulogized them at their funerals. He has caroused with them in bars and clubs from New Orleans to New York, from Paris to Singapore -- and survived to tell the story. The result has been a lifetime of friendship with some of the music world's most engaging and rambunctious personalities. In I Remember Jazz, Rose draws on this unparallelled experience to recall, through brief but poignant vignettes, the greats and the near-greats of jazz. In a style that is always entertaining, unabashedly idiosyncratic, and frequently irreverent, he writes about Jelly Roll Morton and Bunny Berigan, Eubie Blake and Bobby Hackett, Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong, and more than fifty others. |
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Jelly Roll Morton | 1 |
Frankie Newton | 10 |
Bill Russell | 16 |
Irving Fazola | 23 |
Tony Parenti | 41 |
Allan Jaffe | 50 |
Stephane Grappelle | 57 |
Tom Brown | 63 |
Muggsy Spanier | 77 |
Joe Mares | 95 |
Armand Hug | 183 |
Gene Krupa | 202 |
Miff Mole | 208 |
The Dixieland Rhythm | 214 |
Neighborhoods | 220 |
Afterword | 244 |