Celebrating The Duke And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes

by Gleason, Ralph J.

• ISBN13: 9780306806452
• ISBN10: 0306806452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-22
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Celebrating the Dukeoffers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, 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.

Author Biography

Jazz and rock critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone, producer, disc jockey, teacher, and vice-president of Fantasy Records, Ralph J. Gleason (1917–1975) was the author of Jam Sessions and The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xix
Jazz: Black Art/American Art	p. 1
Heroes	p. 25
Bessie Smith	p. 27
Louis Armstrong	p. 33
Jimmie Lunceford	p. 63
Billie Holiday -- Lady Day	p. 75
Pres: Lester Young	p. 83
Charlie "Bird" Parker	p. 87
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie	p. 97
John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet	p. 109
Carmen McRae	p. 119
John Coltrane	p. 125
Miles Davis	p. 131
The Death of Albert Ayler	p. 148
The Duke	p. 153
Farewell to the Duke	p. 155
A Ducal Calendar 1952-1974	p. 169
Coda: The Piano Player	p. 263
Selected List of Available Records	p. 267
Index	p. 273
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