Whisper not
Subtitle: the autobiography of Benny Golson
By: Benny Golson and Jim Merod
Contributors: Merod, Jim, 1942- author
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781439913338
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Saxophonists; Biography; Jazz musicians
Other titles: Autobiography of Benny Golson
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: John Coltrane. One of a kind : John Coltrane ; John and I meet Diz and Bird ; John becomes a dynamo; title: The 'hood and youthful reckonings. Uncle Robert and the man ; Two heroes and a night at Minton's ; Early tragedies and victories ; Welfare days, hard times; title: Great people. No one else : Bobbie Hurd ; Moose and Bostic ; Art Blakey's neophytes and Tadd Dameron's luck ; Further adventures with Tadd and an evening with Louis Armstrong ; The duel : Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro ; Wonder and beauty : Betty Carter and Art Farmer ; Genius squared : Jimmy and Percy Heath ; Unrivaled aces : Sarah Vaughan and Bill Evans ; Four "brothers": Mulgrew Miller, Woody Herman, Henry Brant, and George Russell; title: Hollywood. Starting over ; Gettin' my mojo workin' ; M*A*S*H ; Movie stars like jazz, too; title: Amazing friendships. Quincy Jones ; Sweets and Diz ; Philly Joe Jones ; Monk, Max, and Dinah ; Curtis Fuller and the jazztet; title: Music and writing. Writing ; Lessons ; "Stablemates": my first recorded song ; "Along came Betty" ; "I remember Clifford" ; The ballad and "Weight"; title: Icons. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks ; Duke and Strayhorn ; Coleman Hawkins ; Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk ; Blakey and the Jazz Messengers ; Kenny Dorham and Lee Morgan ; Sonny Rollins ; Great performances : Oscar Pettiford, Ron Carter, Billy Higgins, Billy Taylor, and Walter Davis, Jr. ; Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, Gigi Gryce, and Horace Silver ; Peggy Lee and Diana Ross ; Milt "Bags" Jackson, Larry Young, Joe Farrell, and Tony Williams ; Wynton Kelly and Chick Corea ; Miles Davis and Geoffrey Keezer ; Mickey Rooney, Redd Foxx, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Muhammad Ali; title: Verses and a coda. Notes on starting over ; The blues ; Brielle; title: Coda. A new way of life.