The Ladies Who Sing With the Band (Hardcover)

Betty Bennett evokes a bygone era when "territory" and "name" bands each with its own "girl singer" criscrossed the country in Ladies Who Sing With the Band. The author's career intersected with many of the icons of jazz and popular music, among them Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Ventura, Benny Goodman, and Charlie Barnet. Bennett's anecdotes about these personalities enlighten and entertain, as does her entirely unselfconscious discussion of her marriage to Andre Previn and her relationship with her husband, guitar great Mundell Lowe. The book deals with several issues that transcend music. The entertainment industry particularly the jazz world was an early era of black/white professional and personal interaction. Moreover, the traveling big band represented a unique instance of women in an all-male workplace. Bennett confronts these issues of race and gender in a refreshingly forthright manner.

General

Imprint:	Scarecrow Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Jazz
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	March 2000
Authors:	Betty Bennett
Dimensions:	221 x 143 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-8108-3714-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz
LSN:	0-8108-3714-5
Barcode:	9780810837140

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