Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers

by W. Royal Stokes

Book Overview

A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them.
Stokes offers a kaleidoscopic look at the jazz scene, featuring musicians from a dazzling array of backgrounds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195159276
• ISBN13: 9780195159271
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"