From Birdland to Broadway : scenes from a jazz life /
New York in the 1950s. On the stage at Birdland is the midget master of ceremonies, 3'9" Pee Wee Marquette, dressed in a zoot suit and loud tie, smoking a huge cigar and screeching mispronounced introductions into the microphone. Pee Wee is just one of the many characters that have made Bi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Summary: | New York in the 1950s. On the stage at Birdland is the midget master of ceremonies, 3'9" Pee Wee Marquette, dressed in a zoot suit and loud tie, smoking a huge cigar and screeching mispronounced introductions into the microphone. Pee Wee is just one of the many characters that have made Bill Crow's forty years in jazz seem like an instant. In the same key as his acclaimed Jazz Anecdotes, this collection of revealing, hilarious, and sometimes moving stories runs the full gamut of New York's nightspots, introducing us along the way to the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Judy Holliday, Yul Brynner, and Simon and Garfunkel. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes index. |
| ISBN: | 1429407816 9781429407816 1280527064 9781280527067 6610527067 9786610527069 |
