Friends Along the Way by Gene Lees
This title offers minibiographies of 15 figures from the jazz world - some of them jazz greats, some lesser-known figures, and some up-and-comers. Combining conversations and memoirs with critical commentary, Lees's profiles should captivate jazz fans, performers and historians alike.
"These pieces represent the voice of a generationGene Lees's writings are a kind of last stand for the cultural values that marked a better time." John McDonough, Down Beat, Wall Street Journal "I think of Gene Lees as the Proust of jazz. His accounts of jazz musicians and their world give a sense of intimacy with the jazz scene that no other writer has been able to evoke." Eric Nisenson, author of Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest
Gene Lees is publisher and editor of the Jazzletter. He is also a song lyricist and the author of more than a dozen volumes of jazz history and criticism, among them Singers and the Song, Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White, Meet Me at Jim and Andy’s: Jazz Musicians and Their World, and a forthcoming biography of Johnny Mercer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300099676 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300099673 |
| Title | Friends Along the Way |
| Author | Gene Lees |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2003-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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