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Celebrating the Duke and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and other heroes
- Title
- Celebrating the Duke and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and other heroes / Ralph J. Gleason ; foreword by Studs Terkel ; new introduction by Ira Gitler.
- Author
- Gleason, Ralph J.
- Publication
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1995.
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- Description
- xxiv, 280 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes (and heroines), from its founding fathers to the post-bebop generation, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.
- Alternative Title
- Celebrating the Duke
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1975.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 267-271.
- Contents
- Introduction / Ira Gitler -- Foreword / Studs Terkel -- Pt. I. Jazz: Black Art/American Art -- Pt. II. Heroes. 1. Bessie Smith. 2. Louis Armstrong. 3. Jimmie Lunceford. 4. Billie Holiday - Lady Day. 5. Pres: Lester Young. 6. Charlie "Bird" Parker. 7. John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. 8. John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet. 9. Carmen McRae. 10. John Coltrane. 11. Miles Davis. 12. The Death of Albert Ayler -- Pt. III. The Duke. 1. Farewell to the Duke. 2. A Ducal Calendar 1952-1974. 3. Coda: The Piano Player. Selected List of Available Records.
- ISBN
- 0306806452
- LCCN
- 95021599
- OCLC
- 32589361
- ocm32589361
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries