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Growing Up with Jazz - Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers (Hardcover, New)
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Growing Up with Jazz - Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers (Hardcover, New)
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A jazz writer for three decades, W. Royal Stokes has a special
talent for capturing the initial spark that launches a musician's
career. In Growing Up With Jazz, he has interviewed twenty-four
instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early
influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that
road has taken them.
Stokes offers a kaleidoscopic look at the jazz scene, featuring
musicians from a dazzling array of backgrounds. Ray Gelato recalls
the life of a working class youth in London, Patrizia Scascitelli
recounts being a child prodigy in Rome who became the first woman
of Italian jazz, and Billy Taylor tells about his childhood in
Washington, DC, where his grandfather was a Baptist minister and
his father a dentist--and everyone in the family seemed well
trained in music. Perhaps most exotic is Luluk Purwanto, an
Indonesian violinist who as a child listened to gamelan music in
the morning and took violin lessons in the afternoon (on an
instrument so expensive she didn't dare quit). For some, the flame
burned bright at an early age. Jane Monheit sang before she could
speak and was set on a musical career by age eight. Lisa Sokolov
played classical piano, sang opera and choral music, and was in a
jazz band--all by high school. But Carol Sudhalter, though born
into a very musical family ("a Bix Beiderbecke family"), was a
botany major at Smith, and only became a serious musician after
college, quitting a government job to study the flute and saxophone
in Italy.
From Art Blakey to Claire Daly to Don Byron, here are the
compelling stories of two dozen top musicians finding their way in
the world of jazz.
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