I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home: The Life of Doc Cheatham

Doc Cheatham

ISBN 10: 0304703168 / ISBN 13: 9780304703166

Published by Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1996

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In the Big Band era, Cheatham played with McKinney's Cotton Pickers and Teddy Wilson's Orchestra as well as Calloway, and gives a fascinating insider's view of the life of a black jazz musician in the swing era. Later, Cheatham worked in Latin American bands before revitalizing his jazz career in the 1960s to become a much-in-demand soloist, famous for his work with Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton, as well as with his own Quartet, resident for many years at New York's Sweet Basil.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home: The Life of Doc Cheatham
• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304703168
• ISBN 13: 9780304703166
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This autobiography covers seven decades of jazz, taking in Cheatham's deputization for Louis Armstrong in the 1920s, involvement with Cab Calloway's orchestra in the 1930s and development of a unique style of solo singing from the 1950s until his death in June 1997.