American Musicians: Fifty-Six Portraits in Jazz

by Whitney Balliett

Book Overview

This is Whitney Balliett's long-awaited "big book." In it are all the jazz profiles he has written for The New Yorker during the past 24 years. These include his famous early portraits of Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams, done when these giants were in full flower; his recent reconstructions of the lives of such legends as Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Zoot Sims, and Dave Tough; His quick but indelible glimpses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195037588
• ISBN13: 9780195037586
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"