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Although Count Basie worked with some flamboyant musical personalities, he was himself a rather quiet man and comes off as very demure in this autobiography. This thoroughly researched book details his career from its roots in the territory bands to his stature as a jazz icon. The history of the Basie band and its music is documented extensively through what, where, and when the band played and recorded. Although the book is interesting in historical terms, it will mainly be of interest to jazz standards readers who are Basie aficionados.
Albert Murray is a critic, novelist and biographer. He is cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the author of The Omni-Americans: Black Experience and American Culture, The Blue Devils of Nada, The Seven League Boots, and Train Whistle Guitar.
Dan Morgenstern is the Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, editor of the Journal of Jazz Studies, and former editor-in-chief of Down Beat. He is the author of Living with Jazz: A Reader and the award-winning Jazz People, the former editor of three jazz publications, and consistently writes for numerous newspapers and periodicals.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with
a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards.
Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid
you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are
listed at the right and the listing may be considered the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards
per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance
to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports the research or
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