Downbeat by Frank Alkyer

Downbeat by Frank Alkyer

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Downbeat by Frank Alkyer

(Book). Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! Features classic photos and magazine covers from DownBeat 's vast archives. In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat . This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat 's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words.
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ISBN 13 9781423463849
ISBN 10 1423463846
Title Downbeat
Author Frank Alkyer
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Year published 2009-11-15
Number of pages 340
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.