Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America

ISBN-13: 9780190055691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Independent scholar) C Stephanie Stein (Independent scholar

Recenzje

Jazz, above all, is about rhythm, and in this unique biography, Stephanie Crease has taken the time and pulse of Chick Webb's short but impactful life and made it swing. She is to biographers what Webb was to drummersDLa shining light!

O autorze

Stephanie Stein Crease is a jazz historian, author, editor, and former Senior Jazz Coordinator for the Jazz Arts Program, Manhattan School of Music. Her books include Gil Evans: Out of the Cool (2002 ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award), and Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz (2009). She was literary editor for the Grammy-awarded Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. She was a 2020 Scholar-in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, and 2018 Berger-Benny Carter-Berger Research Fellow at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University.