Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around by Bill Crow (English) Paperback Book

Description: Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around by Bill Crow When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has.Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and a remarkable oral history collection, which resides at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, to paint fascinating and veryhuman portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics—teaching and learning, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname—Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is. In this fully updated edition, which contains over 150 newanecdotes and new topics like Hiring and Firing, Crow regales us with new stories of such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Ravi Coltrane, Buddy Rich and Paul Desmond. He offers extended sections on old favorites—Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, and thefabulous Eddie Condon, who seems to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. With its unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical and social insight, Jazz Anecdotes will delight anyone who loves a good story. It offers a fresh perspective on the joys and hardships of amusician's life as well as a rare glimpse of the personalities who created America's most distinctive music. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down " With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and a remarkable oral history collection, which resides at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, to paint fascinating and very human portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics—teaching and learning, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname—Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is. In this fully updated edition, which contains over 150 new anecdotes and new topics like Hiring and Firing, Crow regales us with new stories of such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Ravi Coltrane, Buddy Rich and Paul Desmond. He offers extended sections on old favorites—Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, and the fabulous Eddie Condon, who seems to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. With its unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical and social insight, Jazz Anecdotes will delight anyone who loves a good story. It offers a fresh perspective on the joys and hardships of a musician's life as well as a rare glimpse of the personalities who created America's most distinctive music. Notes A unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical social insight into the jazz culture. Author Biography Bill Crow is a free-lance musician in the New York City area. He writes a monthly humor column for Allegro, published monthly by Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. Review A scintillating omnium gathering of jazz talk. Washington Post Guarantees up to a thousand laughs...recommended without reservation. Los Angeles Times The intense sociological hothouse that was the jazz and commercial music world has cooled down greatly over the years, but its important to have books like this to remind us how exciting and invigorating those days were...Dont let it slip by. Allegro Read this somewhere where youre not afraid to be seen laughing out loud...Everyone should be able to find something to like in this rich collection. Library Journal Long Description When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers theyve worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and aremarkable oral history collection, which resides at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, to paint fascinating and very human portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics--teaching andlearning, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname--Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is. In this fully updated edition, which contains over 150 new anecdotes and new topics like Hiring and Firing, Crow regales us with new stories of such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Ravi Coltrane, Buddy Rich and Paul Desmond. He offers extended sections on old favorites--Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins andLester Young, and the fabulous Eddie Condon, who seems to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. With its unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical and social insight, Jazz Anecdotes willdelight anyone who loves a good story. It offers a fresh perspective on the joys and hardships of a musicians life as well as a rare glimpse of the personalities who created Americas most distinctive music. Review Text Praise for the previous edition "Guarantees up to a thousand laughs...recommended without reservation."--Los Angeles Times"Read this somewhere where youre not afraid to be seen laughing out loud.... Everyone should be able to find something to like in this rich collection."--Library Journal"When Bill Crows book was published in 1990 it became an instant classic. Now I am in pain with sore ribs from reading its [expanded] successor. Theres something hilarious from every corner of jazz and all the accounts are vivid and lucid [due to] Crows elegant and erudite style of writing. I know from experience how difficult it is to re-write anecdotes that others have told. Crow does it admirably and masterfully. It would be impossible not to enjoy thebook. It has the unintended function of serving as a great reference work, too. My compliments to the chef."--Steve Voce, Duke Ellington Music Society Review Quote "When Bill Crows book was published in 1990 it became an instant classic.Now I am in pain with sore ribs from reading its [expanded] successor. Theressomething hilarious from every corner of jazz and all the accounts are vivid andlucid [due to] Crows elegant and erudite style of writing. I know fromexperience how difficult it is to re-write anecdotes that others have told. Crowdoes it admirably and masterfully. It would be impossible not to enjoy the book.It has the unintended function of serving as a great reference work, too. Mycompliments to the chef."--Steve Voce, Duke Ellington Music Society Details ISBN0195187954 Author Bill Crow Short Title JAZZ ANECDOTES 2/E Pages 416 Publisher Oxford University Press, USA Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0195187954 ISBN-13 9780195187953 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 781.65 Year 2005 Publication Date 2005-08-31 Residence US Audience General/Trade Subtitle Second Time around Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195187953 UK Release Date 2005-10-27 AU Release Date 2005-10-27 NZ Release Date 2005-10-27 US Release Date 2005-10-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131392739;

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