Low down
Subtitle: junk, jazz, and other fairy tales from childhood : a memoir
By: A.J. Albany
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781935639763
Subjects: Children of celebrities; Fathers and daughters; Jazz musicians; Biography; Pianists
Description: A.J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity. It was during these times that his daughter knew him best. What emerges is a raw, gripping, and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young girl trying to survive among the outcasts, misfits, and artists who surrounded her.
Notes: Reprint. "First published by Bloomsbury/Tin House Books in 2003"--Title page verso.