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This authentic account of the Big Band Era and the Age of Swing is
alive with firsthand dialogue by Chris Griffin. Vache traces the
events spanning Griffin's career from his time in the Benny Goodman
band with Harry James and Ziggy Elman in what Duke Ellington dubbed
the best brass section of its day through his freelance years in
radio, television and records where he recorded with legendary
musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday,
Tony Bennett, and Frank Sinatra. Griffin's honesty and humor shine
through the text as he recalls a time when talent and dedication to
quality were supreme. Seventeen photographs and an excellent
discography provided by Ed Berger further the understanding of
Griffin as a man and an artist. This book is ideal for music
lovers, especially those with a keen interest in the big bands of
the 1930s and the lives of the era's most memorable musicians.
The Unsung Songwriters is dedicated to a period in the history of
American music that author Warren Vache calls the "Golden Age of
Songwriting," and to the men and women who made it great. Contrary
to the widely held opinion that most of our hit and standard songs
were composed by a handful of top writers Berlin, Gershwin, Kern,
Porter, and Rodgers the fact is that the vast majority of them were
written by relatively unknown composers. In this definitive
reference work to the "unsung songwriters," you will find Al
Neiberg, the author of "It's the Talk of the Town," Maceo Pinkard,
the mind behind "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Sugar," Harry Woods for
"Try a Little Tenderness," J. Fred Coots for "You Go to My Head,"
and many more.
This set contains the biography of drummer Johnny Blowers, who
recorded with industry titans such as Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby,
and others, and a copy of Blowers' CD Johnny Blowers & His
Giants of Jazz which features 10 tracks.
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