Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
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Availability:In StockContributor:Maxine Gordon, Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword by), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword by)Publish date:2018-11-06Pages:284
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520280649ISBN-10:520280644UPC:9780520280649Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Music, Individual Composer & MusicianBook Topic:JazzSize:9.25 x 6.25 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCNRSTBFV9
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520280649ISBN-10:520280644UPC:9780520280649Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Music, Individual Composer & MusicianBook Topic:JazzSize:9.25 x 6.25 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCNRSTBFV9
Maxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. As an oral historian and archivist in the fields of jazz and African American cultural history, Sophisticated Giant fulfills the promise she made to her late husband, jazz saxophonist and Academy Award-nominated actor Dexter Gordon, to complete his biography.
Publisher: University of California Press
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