Selections from the gutter: Jazz portraits from "The Jazz record" - Hardcover

Hodes, Art And Hansen, Chadwick (Editors)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520029992 ISBN 13: 9780520029996

Publisher: University of California Press, 1977

Synopsis

From the Jacket Flap: "Art Hodes/Music Man: so reads the business card handed out by the tall pianist. And 'music man' he has been ever since he learned to play 'two-fisted' piano as a kid on Chicago's South Side. One of the great band pianists, Art Hodes has known and played with all the top names in jazz. In the mid 'forties, after a successful stint on a radio (WNYC, New York's municipal radio station), he began a magazine called 'The Jazz Record.' Hodes persuaded many of his friends to come to his office and dictate autobiographical articles. The result is an important body of oral history, the best of which, gathered in the present volume, forms an impressive composite portrait of the mid-century jazz musician...."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0520029992
• ISBN 13: 9780520029996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 233