Tony Dagradi, A Spiritual Approach to Jazz: The Life and Work of the New Orleans Saxophonist and Bandleader (in Color)

by David Lasocki

Tony Dagradi is best known as the leader ofthe New Orleans modern-jazz group AstralProject, which he has made his life project.Yet he has had several other important threadsin his forty-year career: serving a series ofinformal apprenticeships with experimentaljazz, soul, and rhythm and blues artists in the1970s; playing, touring, and recording withProfessor Longhair, 1978-80; doing the samewith the Carla Bley Band, 1980-85; partneringwith the bassist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983404860
• ISBN13: 9780983404866
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Instant Harmony
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"