Hot Jazz: From Harlem to Storyville

by David Griffiths

David Griffiths interviewed over 30 jazz artists in compiling Hot Jazz. The majority of those interviewed are the important, and oft-overlooked, side-men of the Big Bands of the Thirties and Forties, including Greely Walton, Bill Dillard, Lester Boone, Barclay Draper, Harvey Davis. There are also interviews with band leader Earle Howard and composer Walter Bishop Sr. They all vividly describe the atmosphere and ambience of the Swing Era. Accounts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810834154
• ISBN13: 9780810834156
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"