Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about Their Careers in Jazz

by W. Royal Stokes

Book Overview

No music is as individual as jazz. And no writer is as deft at bringing out what is individual in each artist as W. Royal Stokes. As a reviewer, feature writer, public radio host, and author of three books on the subject, Stokes has spent three decades covering the jazz scene. Now he draws on that rich store of knowledge and friendship to introduce us to the jazz life.
Stokes illuminates the lives of the artists and the sheer pleasure of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081080
• ISBN13: 9780195081084
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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