Title: Leader of the Band
First published: 1995
Description: Now comes the book that jazz lovers (and Lees's fans) have been waiting for - Leader of the Band, a vivid, full-scale biography of Woody Herman. Asked by Herman in 1986 to write his biography, Gene Lees has spent close to a decade working on it, interviewing many of Herman's childhood friends and lifelong acquaintances as well as numerous musicians.
Subjects: Biography, Jazz musicians, Biographies, Musiciens de jazz, Biographie, Herman, woody, 1913-1987, Jazz musicians, biography
Places: United States
People: Woody Herman (1913-1987)
LC classification: ML419.H375 L4 1995