Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton
Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his
first trumpet?
From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to
television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone
unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the
careers of 3.300 jazz musicians from around the world. We learn that
Duke Ellington worked his magic at The Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931,
and that on Miles Davis's thirteenth birthday, his father gave him his
first trumpet. Jazz is fast moving, and this edition clearly and
concisely maps out an often dizzying web of professional associations.
We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he
encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. This
meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left
Juilliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. Knowledge of these
professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in
this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz
movements, such as the "cool jazz" that
became one of Miles Davis's hallmarks.
Arranged alphabetically according to last name, each entry of this book
chronologically lists the highlights of every jazz musician's career.
Highly accessible and vigorously researched, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz is, quite simply, the most comprehensive jazz encyclopedia available.
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