Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men who Made it"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ? Charlie Parker |
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Contents
It was always a musical townespecially The District | 3 |
For every occasiondances funerals parties and | 14 |
The kids were poor and they often improvised their | 26 |
Bunk Johnson King Oliver Louis Armstrong Kid Ory | 34 |
Then the Navy closed Storyville down But jazz went | 63 |
Many of the jazzmen worked their way North in Fate | 75 |
Jam sessions gangsters speakeasies recording sessions | 128 |
to Harlem which really jumpedon through | 167 |
New Yorks second linethe men who played with | 269 |
From Kansas City a musicians town came stories | 284 |
The Swing Erabig bands big money jitterbugs one | 313 |
The experimentersThelonius Monk Dizzy Gillespie | 335 |
Downtown Fiftysecond Street was the proving ground | 359 |
About a problemnarcotics | 371 |
New sounds from big bandsStan Kenton Woody | 383 |
The presentwhere paths crossnotably those of some | 391 |