Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Seeing Stardust : "Hoagy" Carmichael -- The joint is jumpin' : Thomas "Fats" Waller -- No joke : Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti -- One o'clock jump : William "Count" Basie -- Melody man : Jonah Jones -- God is in the house : Art Tatum -- Road warriors : Earle Warren, Howard McGhee, and Milt Hinton -- The happy singer : Helen Humes -- The religion of bebop : John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie -- Classical jazz : George Shearing -- Take five : Dave Brubeck -- Duke's man : Norris Turney -- Singing the chords : Jon Hendricks -- Traveling with King Louis : Arvell Shaw -- Beyond the big bands : Gerry Mulligan -- Musical chameleon : Dick Hyman -- Flying high : Maynard Ferguson -- Growing up with jazz : Stanley Cowell -- Horn of emotion : David Sanborn -- Jazz ambassador : Billy Taylor.
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