The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz

Feather, Leonard

ISBN 10: 0195074181 / ISBN 13: 9780195074185

Verlag: OUP USA, 1999

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Inhaltsangabe:

A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Leonard Feather's classic Encyclopedia of Jazz

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
Leonard Feather, one of the deans of jazz criticism, is a widely respected figure in jazz writing. He moved to New York from England in the 1930s and made a significant career in jazz here as a journalist, producer, lecturer, broadcaster, musician, and writer of hundreds of jazz compositions. After founding The Encyclopedia of Jazz series in the mid 1950s, he moved to California, becoming the jazz columnist for theLos Angeles Times and The Book of Jazz. Leonard Feather died in 1994.Ira Gitler's writing has helped illuminate the jazz scene from 1951, when he wrote the first of countless album and CD annotations. He was the New York editor ofDownbeat in the 1960s and continues to contribute to that publication, as well as toJazzTimes and Internet publications. His credits as a producer include recordings and concerts, and he teaches jazz history at the Manhattan School of Music. His books include the highly acclaimedJazz Masters of the '40s and Swing to Bop, the latter written while hw was a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
Verlag: OUP USA
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good