Tony Dagradi, A Spiritual Approach to Jazz: The Life and Work of the New Orleans Bandleader

by David Lasocki

Tony Dagradi is best known as the leader ofthe New Orleans modern-jazz group AstralProject, which he has made his life project.Yet he has had several other important threadsin his forty-year career: serving a series ofinformal apprenticeships with experimentaljazz, soul, and rhythm and blues artists in the1970s; playing, touring, and recording withProfessor Longhair, 1978-80; doing the samewith the Carla Bley Band, 1980-85; partneringwith the bassist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985759799
• ISBN13: 9781985759794
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"