52nd Street: The Street of Jazz

by Arnold Shaw

Book Overview

Back in the thirties and forties, when New York City was the capital of the jazz world-you could hail a cab, ask the driver to take you to "The Street," and find yourself on 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Musicians, jazz lovers, college students, big businessmen-everybody knew that this was "The Street that Never Slept," the Street where every night was New Year's Eve, the Street that Variety editor Abel Green so aptly dubbed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306800683
• ISBN13: 9780306800689
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"