What, and Give Up Showbiz?
Subtitle: Six Decades in the Music Business
Contributors: Vacca, Richard
Publisher: Backbeat
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Blue Ridge Summit
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781493051854
Subjects: Sound recording executives and producers; Biography; Businessmen; Entertainment events; Management; Hommes d'affaires; Biographies; Spectacles et divertissements; Gestion
Description: "What, and give up showbiz?" is the punch line of a well-known joke in the entertainment world. It's also the perfect tagline for Fred Taylor's six decades of developing three world-class clubs and discovering, promoting, presenting, and managing many of today's great stars. Here's how it all happened.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: CONTENTS; title: FOREWORD; title: PREFACE; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; title: 1. THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING; title: 2. OVER THE RAINBOW WITH BRUBECK; title: 3. WILD ABOUT BASIE!; title: 4. FINDING MY WAY; title: 5. NIGHTCLUB OWNER; title: 6. THE PAUL'S MALL STORY; title: 7. THE JAZZ WORKSHOP: THE SOUND OF BOSTON JAZZ; title: 8. ROCK, REGGAE, AND ROLLING STONES; title: 9. TICKLING BOSTON'S FUNNY BONE; title: 10. MILES DAVIS: HIPPER THAN YOU; title: 11. LIGHTS OUT; title: 12. MOVIE MOGUL; title: 13. THE ONE-STOP CONCERT SHOP; title: 14. BACK IN A NIGHTCLUB; title: 15. A LITTLE MORE SONG AND DANCE; title: 16. SPLENDOR IN THE BERKSHIRES; title: 17. ENCORES AND ACCOLADES; title: INDEX