Lalo: My Life and Music
Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero is well known and loved in both Mexico  and the Mexican American community as a superstar bandleader of  the 1940s. A National Medal of the Arts winner, he is comparable  to Glenn Miller but not on the same level as a composer like  Duke Ellington. This slim memoir is written in a simple,  conversational style. Vignettes cover every period of his long,  rich life (he's 85 and still performs), from his childhood years  in Tucson's Barrio Libre and earliest musical training to his  rise to fame and fortune as a Spanish- and English-language  recording artist. As a Latino, Guerrero faced discrimination and  had to change his name to Don Edwards to record for Imperial  Records. Those more trying moments are neither glossed over nor  discussed with bitterness. Given that no other biographies are  available and that Guerrero has influenced many contemporary  artists (e.g., Linda Ronstadt), this would make a good addition  to all music libraries and public libraries serving a Mexican  American population. Bill Walker, Stockton-San Joaquin Cty.  P.L., CACopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.