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Classic Jazz : a Personal View of the Music and the Musicians.

Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colorful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz magazines over a fifty-year period, Levin takes us into the nightclubs, the recording studios, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Levin, Floyd (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; foreword; preface; acknowledgments; introduction; 1 kid ory and the revival era; 2 a personal view of the music; 3 a personal view of the musicians; 4 the influence of new orleans musicians on classic jazz; 5 the great louis armstrong; 6 jazz on the west coast; 7 unsung heroes; 8 the seven-year challenge to complete the louis armstrong statue; epilogue; index.