Jazz gentry
Subtitle: aristocrats of the music world
By: Warren W. Vaché.
Series: Studies in jazz ;; no. 33
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Jazz musicians -- Biography.; Jazz -- History and criticism.
Description: Based on more than twenty years of interviews and a lifetime of knowledge, Jazz Gentry examines lesser known, but no less great jazz and swing musicians. This work captures the excitement and rapid musical innovations of the time between World War I and World War II, and records, in some cases for the first time, the lives and experiences of the hard-working musicians who made great jazz music possible.
Notes: Consists principally of articles published 1974-1995 in jazz periodicals.
Includes index.