The ghosts of Harlem
sessions with legends of the jazz era
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Author
Publication
2009 - Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, Tennessee
Language
English
Word Count
122,000 words, Guess
Page Count
488 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveghostsofharlemse0000onea
- ISBN-139780826516275
- ISBN-100826516270
- LibraryThing8192575
- Goodreads6028788
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008022128
- OCLC Control Number230729571
- Better World Books9780826516275
- Open LibraryOL16886252M
Classifications
- DDC781.65092/27471
- DDCB
- LCCML394 .O5413 2009
and 1 more
- LCCML394.O5413 2009
Description
"The history of jazz is anecdotal"-this insight by O'Neal, a photographer and the president of independent jazz label Chiaroscuro Records, inspired him to assemble this historical portrait of jazz in Harlem. Between 1985 and 2007, O'Neal interviewed 42 jazz greats, only four of whom are still alive. With 475 black-and-white photographs, the artist captures Harlem jazz in the 1930s and 1940s, but the greatest value of the book lies in its interviews with such artists as Gillespie, Sy Oliver, Milt Hinton, Jonah Jones, Maxine Sullivan, and Panama Francis. Verdict O'Neal is the perfect conduit for this collection; his expertise leads him to the most casual yet incisive questions. There is no other book that so fully and intimately explores Harlem's musical heyday and its beloved ghosts.-Peter Thornell, Hingham P.L., MA Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
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Genres
- Interviews
- Biography
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