Artist Biographies,pg 2 1 next Leader of the Band: The Life of Woody Herman by Gene Lees Hardcover, List: $35.00 Amazon.com Price: $35.00 Published by Oxford Univ Press (Trade); Publication date: December 1,1995 Dimensions (in inches): 9.56 x 6.47 x 1.39 ISBN: 019505671X [Order] Paperback, 448 pages; List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com Price: $15.95 Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); Reprint edition (July 1997) Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 9.17 x 6.12 ISBN: 0195115740 [Order] The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman by Woody Herman, Stuart Troup (contributor) 1st Edition, Paperback, 178 pgs, List: $14.95 Amazon.com Price: $14.95 Published by Limelight Editions; Publication date: October 1994 Dimensions (in inches): 9.12 x 6.04 x .62 ISBN: 0879101768 [Order] Woody Herman: Chronicles of the Herds by William D. Clancy, Audree Coke Kenton (Contributor), Steve Allen Hardcover, 430 pgs Amazon.com Price: $27.50 Published by MacMillan Publishing Co.; Publication date April 1995 Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x 9.57 x 6.41 ISBN: 0028704967 [Order] Blue Flame: Woody Herman's Life in Music by Robert C. Kriebel Paperback, 298 pgs Amazon.com Price: $19.95 Published by Purdue Univ Pr.; Publication date November 1995 Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x 9.02 x 6.09 ISBN: 1557530734 [Order] Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music by John Chilton Hardcover, 286 pgs, List: $34.50 Amazon.com Price: $34.50 Published by Univ of Michigan Press; Publication date: June 1994 Dimensions (in inches): 9.31 x 6.36 x 1.33 ISBN: 0472105299 [Order] Paperback - 320 pages; List $19.95 Amazon.com Price: $19.95 Univ of Michigan Pr; Reprint edition (September 1997) Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 8.94 x 5.95 ISBN: 047208478X [Order] Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu Hardcover, List: $27.50 Amazon.com Price: $20.63 ~ You Save: $6.87 (25%) Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux; Publication date: June 1,1996 Dimensions (in inches): 9.71 x 6.62 x 1.08 ISBN: 0374194386 [Order] Paperback; List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.00 ~ You Save: $3.00 (20%) North Point Press; (June 1997); Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x 9.20 x 6.11 ISBN: 0865475121 [Order] The Music of Anthony Braxton (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, No 43) by Mike Heffley Hardcover, 504 pgs, List: $69.50 Amazon.com Price: $69.50 Published by Greenwood Pub Group; Publication date: June 1996 ISBN: 0313299560 [Order] review: Book News, Inc., 09/01/96: Musician and journalist Heffley draws on his personal work with Braxton (ethnomusicology, Wesleyan U.) and on Braxton's liner notes and books to explore the music of the American jazz artist. He traces the African and western antecedents of Braxton's music, examines the philosophy, and analyzes works from the solo through large ensemble pieces. Also reprints Braxton's introduction to his Catalogue of Works. ---Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Table of Contents Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Millennial/Gravitational Intrigue Ch. 1. The Music's Grandparents Ch. 2. The Music's Parents Ch. 3. The Musician's Words Ch. 4. The Musician Speaks Ch. 5. The Solo Music's Axis (Tradition/Innovation) Ch. 6. Duo Music Ch. 7. Trio Music Ch. 8. Quartet Music Ch. 9. Large Ensemble Music Ch. 10. The Music's Muse Appendix: Anthony Braxton's Introduction to "Catalogue of Works" Sources Index Paperback; List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com Price: $24.95 William Zinn; (June 1996) ISBN: 093501618X [Order] Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen Hardcover, 576 pgs, List: $30.00 Amazon.com Price: $22.50 ~ You Save: $7.50 (25%) Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub. Dimensions (in inches): 9.53 x 6.64 x 1.73 ISBN: 0553067680 [Order] review: From Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/97: This look at the life of one of this century's great personalities eschews meticulousness in its musical analysis in favor of a complete look at the man himself. Biographer Bergreen (As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, 1990, etc.) follows New Orleans's greatest from cradle to grave, as he travels to St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Hollywood promoting jazz --the music he helped create. Along the way, we get colorful depictions of Armstrong's introduction to horn playing (he was the bugler at a reform school), the hard-drinking mother who taught him to hold his liquor, and the ``cutting contests''-- horn-playing competitions--in which he competed his entire life. Armstrong's career spanned many decades, and for much of that time he was a tireless performer and a frequent collaborator with other jazz greats, among them Charles Mingus, Earl ``Fatha'' Hines, and late in life, Ella Fitzgerald. As New Orleans jazz gave way first to swing and then to bebop, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis, among other musicians, dismissed Armstrong as old hat. Armstrong outlasted their dismissal, and many later came to value his distinctive, resilient, subtle style. Armstrong knew some shady figures, including his manager Joe Glaser, who fleeced the trumpeter for millions, and gangster Dutch Schultz, whose feud with Al Capone over ``rights'' to Louis forced the musician into exile for fear of his life. The most vivid element here is Armstrong's own words. Despite only a fifth-grade education, Louis was a prolific and talented writer with a flair for metaphor (``In less than two hours I would be broker than the Ten Commandments'') and an almost alarmingly confessional style regarding his sex life and heavy but apparently never abusive use of marijuana. The presence of Armstrong's unique voice turns what might have otherwise been a routine biography into a grand success. (16 pages photos, not seen) (Author tour) ---Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Synopsis: Featuring insights and information gleaned from Louis Armstrong's tape-recorded reminiscences and anecdotes, personal scrapbooks, letters, and diaries, this first full biography of this musical icon brings the founding father of jazz to life as never before. 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Leader of the Band: The Life of Woody Herman by Gene Lees Hardcover, List: $35.00 Amazon.com Price: $35.00 Published by Oxford Univ Press (Trade); Publication date: December 1,1995 Dimensions (in inches): 9.56 x 6.47 x 1.39 ISBN: 019505671X [Order] Paperback, 448 pages; List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com Price: $15.95 Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); Reprint edition (July 1997) Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 9.17 x 6.12 ISBN: 0195115740 [Order] The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman by Woody Herman, Stuart Troup (contributor) 1st Edition, Paperback, 178 pgs, List: $14.95 Amazon.com Price: $14.95 Published by Limelight Editions; Publication date: October 1994 Dimensions (in inches): 9.12 x 6.04 x .62 ISBN: 0879101768 [Order] Woody Herman: Chronicles of the Herds by William D. Clancy, Audree Coke Kenton (Contributor), Steve Allen Hardcover, 430 pgs Amazon.com Price: $27.50 Published by MacMillan Publishing Co.; Publication date April 1995 Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x 9.57 x 6.41 ISBN: 0028704967 [Order] Blue Flame: Woody Herman's Life in Music by Robert C. Kriebel Paperback, 298 pgs Amazon.com Price: $19.95 Published by Purdue Univ Pr.; Publication date November 1995 Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x 9.02 x 6.09 ISBN: 1557530734 [Order] Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music by John Chilton Hardcover, 286 pgs, List: $34.50 Amazon.com Price: $34.50 Published by Univ of Michigan Press; Publication date: June 1994 Dimensions (in inches): 9.31 x 6.36 x 1.33 ISBN: 0472105299 [Order] Paperback - 320 pages; List $19.95 Amazon.com Price: $19.95 Univ of Michigan Pr; Reprint edition (September 1997) Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 8.94 x 5.95 ISBN: 047208478X [Order] Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu Hardcover, List: $27.50 Amazon.com Price: $20.63 ~ You Save: $6.87 (25%) Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux; Publication date: June 1,1996 Dimensions (in inches): 9.71 x 6.62 x 1.08 ISBN: 0374194386 [Order] Paperback; List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.00 ~ You Save: $3.00 (20%) North Point Press; (June 1997); Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x 9.20 x 6.11 ISBN: 0865475121 [Order] The Music of Anthony Braxton (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, No 43) by Mike Heffley Hardcover, 504 pgs, List: $69.50 Amazon.com Price: $69.50 Published by Greenwood Pub Group; Publication date: June 1996 ISBN: 0313299560 [Order] review: Book News, Inc., 09/01/96: Musician and journalist Heffley draws on his personal work with Braxton (ethnomusicology, Wesleyan U.) and on Braxton's liner notes and books to explore the music of the American jazz artist. He traces the African and western antecedents of Braxton's music, examines the philosophy, and analyzes works from the solo through large ensemble pieces. Also reprints Braxton's introduction to his Catalogue of Works. ---Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Table of Contents Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Millennial/Gravitational Intrigue Ch. 1. The Music's Grandparents Ch. 2. The Music's Parents Ch. 3. The Musician's Words Ch. 4. The Musician Speaks Ch. 5. The Solo Music's Axis (Tradition/Innovation) Ch. 6. Duo Music Ch. 7. Trio Music Ch. 8. Quartet Music Ch. 9. Large Ensemble Music Ch. 10. The Music's Muse Appendix: Anthony Braxton's Introduction to "Catalogue of Works" Sources Index Paperback; List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com Price: $24.95 William Zinn; (June 1996) ISBN: 093501618X [Order] Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen Hardcover, 576 pgs, List: $30.00 Amazon.com Price: $22.50 ~ You Save: $7.50 (25%) Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub. Dimensions (in inches): 9.53 x 6.64 x 1.73 ISBN: 0553067680 [Order] review: From Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/97: This look at the life of one of this century's great personalities eschews meticulousness in its musical analysis in favor of a complete look at the man himself. Biographer Bergreen (As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, 1990, etc.) follows New Orleans's greatest from cradle to grave, as he travels to St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Hollywood promoting jazz --the music he helped create. Along the way, we get colorful depictions of Armstrong's introduction to horn playing (he was the bugler at a reform school), the hard-drinking mother who taught him to hold his liquor, and the ``cutting contests''-- horn-playing competitions--in which he competed his entire life. Armstrong's career spanned many decades, and for much of that time he was a tireless performer and a frequent collaborator with other jazz greats, among them Charles Mingus, Earl ``Fatha'' Hines, and late in life, Ella Fitzgerald. As New Orleans jazz gave way first to swing and then to bebop, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis, among other musicians, dismissed Armstrong as old hat. Armstrong outlasted their dismissal, and many later came to value his distinctive, resilient, subtle style. Armstrong knew some shady figures, including his manager Joe Glaser, who fleeced the trumpeter for millions, and gangster Dutch Schultz, whose feud with Al Capone over ``rights'' to Louis forced the musician into exile for fear of his life. The most vivid element here is Armstrong's own words. Despite only a fifth-grade education, Louis was a prolific and talented writer with a flair for metaphor (``In less than two hours I would be broker than the Ten Commandments'') and an almost alarmingly confessional style regarding his sex life and heavy but apparently never abusive use of marijuana. The presence of Armstrong's unique voice turns what might have otherwise been a routine biography into a grand success. (16 pages photos, not seen) (Author tour) ---Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Synopsis: Featuring insights and information gleaned from Louis Armstrong's tape-recorded reminiscences and anecdotes, personal scrapbooks, letters, and diaries, this first full biography of this musical icon brings the founding father of jazz to life as never before. Paperback; 592 pages; List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.80 ~ You Save: $3.20 (20%) Broadway Books; Reprint edition (July 1998) Dimensions (in inches): 1.69 x 8.34 x 5.58 ISBN: 0767901568 [Order] Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists by Leslie Gourse Paperback, List: $14.95 Amazon.com Price: $14.95 Published by Oxford Univ Pr., Publication date: June 1, 1996 Dimensions (in inches): 8.01 x 5.41 x .68 ISBN: 0195106474 [Order]
Paperback, 448 pages; List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com Price: $15.95 Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); Reprint edition (July 1997) Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 9.17 x 6.12 ISBN: 0195115740 [Order]
Paperback - 320 pages; List $19.95 Amazon.com Price: $19.95 Univ of Michigan Pr; Reprint edition (September 1997) Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 8.94 x 5.95 ISBN: 047208478X [Order]
Paperback; List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.00 ~ You Save: $3.00 (20%) North Point Press; (June 1997); Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x 9.20 x 6.11 ISBN: 0865475121 [Order]
review: Book News, Inc., 09/01/96: Musician and journalist Heffley draws on his personal work with Braxton (ethnomusicology, Wesleyan U.) and on Braxton's liner notes and books to explore the music of the American jazz artist. He traces the African and western antecedents of Braxton's music, examines the philosophy, and analyzes works from the solo through large ensemble pieces. Also reprints Braxton's introduction to his Catalogue of Works. ---Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Table of Contents Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Millennial/Gravitational Intrigue Ch. 1. The Music's Grandparents Ch. 2. The Music's Parents Ch. 3. The Musician's Words Ch. 4. The Musician Speaks Ch. 5. The Solo Music's Axis (Tradition/Innovation) Ch. 6. Duo Music Ch. 7. Trio Music Ch. 8. Quartet Music Ch. 9. Large Ensemble Music Ch. 10. The Music's Muse Appendix: Anthony Braxton's Introduction to "Catalogue of Works" Sources Index
Paperback; List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com Price: $24.95 William Zinn; (June 1996) ISBN: 093501618X [Order]
review: From Kirkus Reviews, 06/01/97: This look at the life of one of this century's great personalities eschews meticulousness in its musical analysis in favor of a complete look at the man himself. Biographer Bergreen (As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, 1990, etc.) follows New Orleans's greatest from cradle to grave, as he travels to St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Hollywood promoting jazz --the music he helped create. Along the way, we get colorful depictions of Armstrong's introduction to horn playing (he was the bugler at a reform school), the hard-drinking mother who taught him to hold his liquor, and the ``cutting contests''-- horn-playing competitions--in which he competed his entire life. Armstrong's career spanned many decades, and for much of that time he was a tireless performer and a frequent collaborator with other jazz greats, among them Charles Mingus, Earl ``Fatha'' Hines, and late in life, Ella Fitzgerald. As New Orleans jazz gave way first to swing and then to bebop, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis, among other musicians, dismissed Armstrong as old hat. Armstrong outlasted their dismissal, and many later came to value his distinctive, resilient, subtle style. Armstrong knew some shady figures, including his manager Joe Glaser, who fleeced the trumpeter for millions, and gangster Dutch Schultz, whose feud with Al Capone over ``rights'' to Louis forced the musician into exile for fear of his life. The most vivid element here is Armstrong's own words. Despite only a fifth-grade education, Louis was a prolific and talented writer with a flair for metaphor (``In less than two hours I would be broker than the Ten Commandments'') and an almost alarmingly confessional style regarding his sex life and heavy but apparently never abusive use of marijuana. The presence of Armstrong's unique voice turns what might have otherwise been a routine biography into a grand success. (16 pages photos, not seen) (Author tour) ---Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Synopsis: Featuring insights and information gleaned from Louis Armstrong's tape-recorded reminiscences and anecdotes, personal scrapbooks, letters, and diaries, this first full biography of this musical icon brings the founding father of jazz to life as never before.
Paperback; 592 pages; List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.80 ~ You Save: $3.20 (20%) Broadway Books; Reprint edition (July 1998) Dimensions (in inches): 1.69 x 8.34 x 5.58 ISBN: 0767901568 [Order]