Celebrating the Duke and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and other heroes
By: Ralph J. Gleason ; foreword by Studs Terkel ; new introduction by Ira Gitler.
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism; Jazz musicians
Other titles: Celebrating the Duke
Description: Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes (and heroines), from its founding fathers to the post-bebop generation, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.
Notes: Discography: p. 267-271.
Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1975.
Includes index.