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Jazz anecdotes : second time around

Bill Crow
eBook, English, 2005
Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
Anecdotes
1 online resource (xviii, 391 pages)
9780199726486, 0199726485
1091900182
Wild scenes
The word "jazz"
Beginnings
Inventions
Pianos
Teachers and Students
Stage fright
Reading music
Hiring and firing
Managers, agents and bosses
On the road
Arrangers and arrangements
Cutting contests
52nd Street
Jazz records
Jazz on the air
The well-dressed jazz musician
Prejudice
Songs
Goofs
Pranks
The put-on
Good lines
Nicknames
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Bix Beiderbecke
Thomas "Fats" Walker
Eddie Condon
Pee Wee Russell
Duke Ellington and his orchestra
Benny Goodman
Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young
Art Tatum and his children
Joe Venuti
Tommy Dorsey
Lionel Hampton
Charlie Parker
John Birks Gillspie
Charles Mingus
Zoot Sims and Al Cohn
Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Jokes
Previous edition: 1990