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James Bond (this time played by George Lazenby) hands in his
licence to kill after being banned from hunting down his
arch-nemesis Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Continuing his investigations
alone, he follows a lead to Portugal, meets and falls in love with
Tracey Draco (Diana Rigg), and is told by her crimelord father that
Blofeld is now in Switzerland. Pretty soon its snow, kilts, girls,
secret bases and ski chases, as Bond chases down his enemy and
attempts to foil a plan to unleash a deadly chemical weapon.
"An occasion to appreciate Dexter's resounding musical genius as
well as his wish for major social transformation."-Angela Y. Davis,
political activist, scholar, author, and speaker Sophisticated
Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter
Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In
a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has
completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo"
turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present.
Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote,
and a selection of Dexter's personal letters reflects his colorful
life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet
genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, "Man, you ought to leave
your karma to science." Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter
beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore--even
in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool
jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full
of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both
a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider
who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential
book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our
misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself.
"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest
joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers
would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd
stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink
and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying
over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain
common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze
me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So
says Louis Armstrong, a tough kid who just happened to be a musical
genius, about one of the places where he performed and grew up.
This raucous, rich tale of his early days in New Orleans concludes
with his departure to Chicago at twenty-one to play with his
boyhood idol King Oliver, and tells the story of a life that began,
mythically, on July 4, 1900, in the city that sowed the seeds of
jazz.
Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor
saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators
of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir,
Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began,
weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from
past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of
research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter's personal letters
reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the
celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, "Man, you
ought to leave your karma to science." Dexter Gordon the icon is
the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz
lore--even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image
of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the
multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who
struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the
rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and
world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the
gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by
Dexter himself.
The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong's Swing
That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong wrote most
of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and
scope than that of his other, later autobiography, Satchmo: My Life
in New Orleans (also published by Da Capo/Perseus Books Group).
Satchmo covers in intimate detail Armstrong's life until his 1922
move to Chicago but Swing That Music also covers his days on
Chicago's South Side with "King" Oliver, his courtship and marriage
to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own
band, his European tours, and his international success. One of the
most earnest justifications ever written for the new style of music
then called "swing" but more broadly referred to as "Jazz," Swing
That Music is a biography, a history, and an entertainment that
really "swings."
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