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Title: Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie by Albert Murray, Dan Morgenstern ISBN: 0-306-81107-3 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Morning Blues, Blues How Do You Do?
Comment: This book contains a wealth of historical information, and is written in a calm, mellow style. Murray perfectly captured the laid-back elegance of Basie's voice and tells his story in a smooth, graceful manner. This book contains no sensational or scandalous materials about Basie's many associates, including Lester Young, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, or Benny Moten, and that's the way Basie wanted it. Basie was a gentleman who believed in proper decorum, and he never revealed any secrets about his many friends. There are no bombshells in this book, but if you are looking for a comprehensive life story of one of the 20th century's most important and succesful musicians (both commercially and artistically), this is the book for you. This is an absolute neccesity for students of jazz and is essential to any collection of jazz biographies. The information on the music alone (where they were touring, what they were playing, when they recorded what, etc.) is vast.
Rating: 2
Summary: For Basie aficionados only
Comment: If you expect some spectacular insight how Basie and his music came into being, you're in for a slight letdown. The book has a somewhat sedate pace, doesn't feature to many anecdotes or details about Basie and his musicians. There are certainly some interesting facts but on the whole it's rather dry. The book covers Basie's career from its beginnings. I found the chapters on his early life the most interesting ones. From about 1940 onwards Basie structures his memories along his recording sessions; and this gets a bit tedious. I can only recommend this for true Basie aficionados who want to pick up the odd piece of new information.
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Title: Miles by Miles Davis ISBN: 0671725823 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Music Is My Mistress (Da Capo Paperback) by Duke Ellington ISBN: 0306800330 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1976 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography by Sidney Bechet ISBN: 0306811081 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Man Who Made It by Nat Shapiro ISBN: 0486217264 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Stomping the Blues (Da Capo Paperback) by Albert Murray ISBN: 0306803623 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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