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9781893163171

Ben Webster : His Life and Music

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  • ISBN13:

    9781893163171

  • ISBN10:

    1893163172

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-12-01
  • Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books
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Summary

An anecdotal portrait of the jazz saxophonist begins with the transport of his great-great-grandmother as a slave from Guinea to Kentucky in the early nineteenth century and continues through the donation of his instrument to the Institute of Jazz Studies after his death. Original.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Chronology ix
The brute and the beautiful
1(6)
Kansas city
7(20)
Henderson, calloway and wilson
27(20)
With the guv'nor: duke ellington
47(24)
52nd Street--on his own
71(18)
Norman granz and the fruitful fifties
89(26)
Final years in the states
115(20)
A new life in europe
135(10)
The amsterdam years
145(32)
Someone to watch over me
177(18)
Twilight years in denmark
195(18)
The final tours
213(12)
Records in the decade 1964-1973
225(12)
``...and i'm old and going''
237(12)
Ol'betsy
249(8)
Select discography 257(20)
Index of names 277

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