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Author Zwerin, Michael.

Title The Parisian jazz chronicles : an improvisational memoir / Mike Zwerin
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
Contents Poop and hasse-oles : barbershops & whorehouses : Stevie Wonder -- Dexter Gordon : life and death in the margin : barbershops & whorehouses : Ornette Coleman and Waylon Jennings -- Planeland : bringing up baby : barbershops & whorehouses : Count Basie -- The slush pump and the silent letter : barbershops & whorehouses : Elvin Jones -- Timothy Leary : voltage smart : barbershops & whorehouses : Janos -- jazz in Siberia : left-handed times -- barbershops & whorehouses -- Willy (Mink) DeVille -- Chet Baker : how about a sniffette? : barbershops & whorehouses : Astor Piazzolla -- Bob Dylan : Dr. Pitre's nominal aphasia : barbershops & whorehouses : Don Henley -- Don Budge : playing with wands : barbershops & whorehouses : Bobby McFerrin -- Steppenwolf : brilliant eccentrics : barbershops & whorehouses : Simon and Garfunkel -- Kenny G : barbershops & whorehouses : Andy Bey -- Miles Davis : a mouthful of words : barbershops & whorehouses : Ice-T -- Freddy Heineken : he brew : barbershops & whorehouses : Brad Mehldau -- serious music : kulture in the goyish Alps : barbershops & whorehouses : Roswell Rudd -- Melvin Van Peebles : gone fishing : barbershops & whorehouses : Steve Lacy -- Wayne Shorter : beyond a smile on a face -- barbershops & whorehouses : Gil Evans -- Orson Welles : patched and peeled in Mogador : barbershops & whorehouses : Dizzy Gillespie -- the International Herald Trombone
Summary 'The Parisian Jazz Chronicles' offers an engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the 1980's and 1990's. Zwerin writes about figures he knew and interviewed and about his own life, split allegiances to journalism and music, and to America and France, and his solitary battle for sobriety
Notes Includes index
English
Print version record
Subject Jazz -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
Jazz
France -- Paris
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300127386
0300127383
1281740837
9781281740830
9786611740832
661174083X