American Musicians: 56 Portraits in Jazz

by Whitney Balliett

Book Overview

American Musicians, Whitney Balliett's long-awaited "big book," contains a wealth of jazz profiles he has written for The New Yorker during the past twenty-seven years. He gives us, in this spectacular volume, his famous early portraits of Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams, written in their brilliant twilight years; his reconstructions of the lives of such legends as Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Zoot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060881
• ISBN13: 9780195060881
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"