Maverick Maestro (Hardcover)

Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York's Washington Heights, became a busy dance band and symphonic trumpeter, and was drafted towards the end of the Korean conflict, landing him in a newly integrated Negro Regimental Band. In this memoir, he shares what he learned from an enormous range of American works and musicians. In his first book, Peress explored America's music and its African American roots. A musical mission emerges, a lifelong commitment to "give concerts that reconstruct delicious mixed marriages of music, black and white, Jazz and classical, folk and concert, Native American and European; works that bring people together, that urge us to love one another."

General

Imprint:	Paradigm Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Maurice Peress
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-61205-874-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-61205-874-4
Barcode:	9781612058740

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