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Follow Your Heart : Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues /

Follow Your Heart chronicles the career of Joe Evans, an alto saxophonist who between 1939 and 1965 performed with some of America's greatest musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk, Billie Holiday, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lionel H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Evans, Joe, 1916-2014
Otros Autores: Brooks, Christopher Antonio, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Follow Your Heart chronicles the career of Joe Evans, an alto saxophonist who between 1939 and 1965 performed with some of America's greatest musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk, Billie Holiday, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lionel Hampton, and Ivory Joe Hunter. Evans warmly recounts his wide range of experience in the music industry, comments on popular New York City venues for black music, and offers invaluable insight into race relations within the industry from the 1920s to 1970s. Christopher Brooks is a professor of anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He co-authored Shirley Verrett's bestselling autobiography, I Never Walked Alone
Notas:Includes discography (pages 153-[155]) and index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780252091131