Benny Goodman and the Swing Era

ISBN-13: 9780195052787 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 432 str.

James Lincoln Collier

Opis

This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the King of Swing. The author offers insights into the character and music of a man who helped transform the Depression years into the Swing Era.

Recenzje

'Collier's book amplifies very extensively Goodman's autobiography, The Kingdom of Swing.' Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Author of Louis Armstrong (OUP USA 1983) and Duke Ellington (OUP USA 1987).