Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers

by W. Royal Stokes

Book Overview

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them.

Stokes offers a kaleidoscopic look at the jazz scene, featuring musicians from a dazzling array of backgrounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019538069X
• ISBN13: 9780195380699
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"