The Boston Jazz Chronicles

by Richard Vacca

Book Overview

There has always been more to music in Boston than the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jazz, for example, dates to the early 1900s, but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that it truly sparkled. The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937-1962 is the first book to document that city's active jazz scene at mid-century.

Boston jazz came into its own during the World War II years, when the big bands supplied America with its popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983991006
• ISBN13: 9780983991007
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Troy Street Publishing, LLC
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"