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Flying High - A Jazz Life and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Flying High - A Jazz Life and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One
of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with
searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have
driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician
in an often inhospitable world. With cool, unsparing self-analysis,
he describes the difficulties that accompanied his brilliant career
for many years. Internationally recognised as a jazz star, he has
performed and recorded with a galaxy of musical legends, many of
them his close friends. Among those vividly recalled in this book
are Bud Powell, Ray Charles, Anita O'Day, Elvin Jones, Max Roach,
Hampton Hawes, Al Haig, Philly Joe Jones, Zoot Sims, Jimmy
Witherspoon, Dakota Staton, Red Rodney, Jon Hendricks, Tony Bennett
and Marlene Dietrich. But while the story here centres on Peter
King's life in jazz it shows other important sides of him too: his
ambitions and achievements in classical composing, his interests
outside music (he is a leading figure and writer in the
aero-modelling world) and, above all, the treasured personal
relationships that have sustained him through a turbulent life.
"Flying High" tells of an exhilarating high altitude journey, in
the jazz world and beyond.
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