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The View from the Back of the Band : The Life and Music of Mel Lewis /
Mel Lewis (1929-1990) was born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father's drumsticks at the age of two and at 17 he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band is the first biography of this legendary jazz dru...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Denton, Texas :
University of North Texas Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: 'Uncle Mel' by John Mosca
- Preface
- Born a drummer
- Mel meets New York City
- Brookmeyer and Kenton's initial offer
- Kenton presents Mel Lewis
- Contemporary concepts and Thad Jones
- Life in Los Angeles
- Terry Gibbs and 'The tailor'
- Webster and Mulligan
- Mel's new cymbal and Europe with Dizzy
- The Soviet Union and a move East
- Back in the Big Apple
- Thad and Mel get their opening
- Opening night at the Village Vanguard
- The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and Solid State
- Thad and Mel hit the road, and the road hits back
- The youth movement
- Ten years at the Village Vanguard / The road family
- Thad leaves for Denmark
- Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra
- The musical mentor
- Twenty years at the Vanguard / A new fight
- Hello and goodbye
- Memories of Mel
- Afterword: 'Mel's example' by John Riley
- Transcriptions and listening guides
- Mel Lewis equipment timeline
- Selected discography
- Notes.