Con Chapman

Rabbit's Blues

The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full-length biography of Johnny Hodges, Rabbit's Blues tells the story of one of the premier saxophonists in jazz history, who brought the woody tone and bluesy technique of New Orleans music to the hot East Coast jazz of the Ellington orchestra.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780190653903
• ISBN-10: 0190653906
• Artikelnr.: 55452209

Autorenporträt

Con Chapman's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor, and his writings on jazz have appeared in The American Bystander, The Boston Herald and Brilliant Corners. He is the author of two novels, thirty-two stage plays, fifty books of humor, and The Year of the Gerbil, a history of the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees pennant race.

Inhaltsangabe

Epigraph
Prologue
1. A Sax is Born
2. Young Man With a Sax
3. His Tone
4. Scuffling in New York
5. The Competition
6. The Partnership Begins
7. Women and Children
8. Outside the Ellington Constellation: 30's and 40's
9. The Small Groups
10. Swee' Pea
11. Blanton, Webster and the Forties
12. Food and Drink
13. The Coming of Bird
14. The Rabbit Strays
15. The Rabbit Returns
16. Outside the Ellington Constellation: 50's and 60's
17. The Quality of Song
18. Lagomorphology
19. The Blues
20. The Out Chorus
Epilogue
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements