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(Book). Jazz fans get the inside story of New York's legendary
club. At age 83, Lorraine Gordon is a jazz icon who has lived more
than a few lives: downtown bohemian, uptown grande dame, music
business pioneer, wife, lover, mother, and finally at a point when
most women her age were just settling into grandmotherhood owner of
the most famous jazz club in the world, the Village Vanguard. The
trajectory of her journey has been remarkable. The details are a
Jackson Pollock-like swirl of fierce colors shot through with
larger-than-life creative figures: not just jazz figures but
luminaries from every point on the political, social and
entertainment spectrum: from Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Miles Davis
and Thelonious Monk to Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer and Barbra
Streisand. * The legendary Village Vanguard has been an
international jazz mecca since 1935. According to New York
Magazine, "A musician hasn't truly arrived in the jazz world until
he's played at the 'Carnegie Hall of Cool, ' the Village Vanguard."
* There have been over 100 "Live at the Village Vanguard"
recordings by premier artists from John Coltrane to Wynton
Marsalis.
Narrated by Barry Singer-one of contemporary musical theater's most
authoritative chroniclers-Ever After was originally published in
2003 as a history of the previous twenty-five years in musical
theater, on and off Broadway. This new, second edition extends the
narrative, taking readers from 2004 to the present. The book
revisits every new musical that has opened since the last edition,
with Barry Singer once again as guide. Before Ever After appeared
in 2003, no book had addressed the recent past in musical theater
history-an era Singer describes as "ever after musical theater's
many golden ages." Derived significantly from Singer's writings
about musical theater for the New York Times, New York magazine,
and the New Yorker, Ever After captured that era in its entirety,
from the opening of The Act on Broadway in October 1977 to the
opening of Avenue Q Off-Broadway in March 2003. This new edition
brings Ever After up to date, from Wicked through The Book of
Mormon to Hamilton and beyond. Once again, Ever After is the first
book to cover this new age. And, once again, utilizing his recent
writing about musical theater for Huffington Post and Playbill,
Barry Singer's viewpoint is comprehensive and absolutely unique.
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