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Hot Man (Hardcover)
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This memoir by the internationally renowned jazz pianist Art Hodes,
born in Russia in 1904, is in its own way a blues, a lament for and
a celebration of music and musicians we have lost. The last of the
living legends among Chicago jazz musicians, Hodes joins with jazz
historian Chadwick Hansen to provide a unique perspective on more
than seven decades of jazz history. With an honesty not usually
found in jazz books, Hot Man captures Hodes's professional career
from his apprenticeship in Chicago in the 1920s to the present. The
book offers remarkable inside views of gangster clubowners, the
great New York jazz clubs and the vicious "jazz wars" of the 1940s,
Chicago from the 1950s, the very closed and special world of jazz
musicians, the curious relationships between musicians and their
audiences, and Hodes's experiences with jazz greats including Louis
Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. No other white musician has given us
such a full account of learning to play from black musicians. This
intimate journey takes us to a vast circle of fellow musicians, to
recording companies and the business of the profession, to Nodes's
other career as a writer and editor of the Jazz Record, a
publication that existed through most of the 1940s. Hodes's story
includes almost thirty photographs and a comprehensive discography,
filling a gap in the world of jazz literature.
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