Classic jazz
Subtitle: a personal view of the music and the musicians
By: Floyd Levin ; foreword by Benny Carter.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism; Jazz musicians -- United States
Description: "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, the record companies, and, most compellingly, into the lives of the musicians who made the great moments of the traditional jazz and swing eras. Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians is a treasury of information on a rich segment of American popular music."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Collection of author's articles previously published mostly in jazz magazines.
Includes index.