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Jim and Andy's in New York was one of the city's four musicians' haunts in the 1960s. In a vivid series of portraits, we meet its clientele, an unforgettable gallery of individualists including Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Art Farmer, Billy Taylor, Gerry Mulligan, and Paul Desmond.
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'[a] collection that strikingly illuminates the jazz life' Los Angeles Daily News
'Perceptive, witty, personalized essays by an insider provide an affectionate look at the jazz world and its performers that is sure to please the afficionado.' Booklist
'one of the masterpieces on jazz by the best jazz essayist there is' Booklist
'filled with perceptive observations and richly entertaining tales of the jazz scene ... Wit and insight abound in this very readable book.' Washington News
'a welcome jazz paperback publication' Beat Scene
'Lees, well-known as a music critic and songwriter in America, met many of the great names in jazz in its comforting depths. Here he draws on his close acquaintanceship with some of them - Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, among others - to produce a series of entertaining articles about the men and their music. Lees is a seasoned reporter with an extensive knowledge of jazz and most of his subjects are colourful enough to make the book enjoyable reading even for those who know little about the music.' Sunday Times
'A thoroughly enjoyable book, painting jazzmen as hard-working, keen-thinking experts, who enjoy what they do and, as much as anybody else, love a good laugh. By getting to know the players so well, so much more about what they do falls into place.' Q
'Lees is a seasoned reporter with an extensive knowledge of jazz and most of his subjects are colourful enough to make the book enjoyable reading even for those who know little about the music.' Sunday Times
'Lees is a seasoned reporter with an extensive knowledge of jazz and most of his subjects are colourful enough to make the book enjoyable reading even for those who know little about the music.' The Observer
'Vivid portraits of the musicians who frequented this famous New York club in the 60's.' Jazzwise
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'Perceptive, witty, personalized essays by an insider provide an affectionate look at the jazz world and its performers that is sure to please the afficionado.' Booklist
'one of the masterpieces on jazz by the best jazz essayist there is' Booklist
'filled with perceptive observations and richly entertaining tales of the jazz scene ... Wit and insight abound in this very readable book.' Washington News
'a welcome jazz paperback publication' Beat Scene
'Lees, well-known as a music critic and songwriter in America, met many of the great names in jazz in its comforting depths. Here he draws on his close acquaintanceship with some of them - Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, among others - to produce a series of entertaining articles about the men and their music. Lees is a seasoned reporter with an extensive knowledge of jazz and most of his subjects are colourful enough to make the book enjoyable reading even for those who know little about the music.' Sunday Times
'A thoroughly enjoyable book, painting jazzmen as hard-working, keen-thinking experts, who enjoy what they do and, as much as anybody else, love a good laugh. By getting to know the players so well, so much more about what they do falls into place.' Q
'Lees is a seasoned reporter with an extensive knowledge of jazz and most of his subjects are colourful enough to make the book enjoyable reading even for those who know little about the music.' Sunday Times
'Lees is a seasoned reporter with an extensive knowledge of jazz and most of his subjects are colourful enough to make the book enjoyable reading even for those who know little about the music.' The Observer
'Vivid portraits of the musicians who frequented this famous New York club in the 60's.' Jazzwise
Jim and Andy's on 48th Street was a favourite haunt of New York musicians in the 1960s. This book gives vivid portraits of its clientele, including Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Art Farmer, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, and Bill Evans.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1. Gene Lees, author of the highly acclaimed Singers and the Song, offers, in Meet Me at Jim and Andy's, another tightly integrated collection of essays about post-War American music. This time he focuses on major jazz instrumentalists and bandleaders.Jim and Andy's, on 48th Street just west of Sixth Avenue, was one of four New York musicians' haunts in the 1960s--the others being Joe Harbor's Spotlight, Charlie's, and Junior's. "For almost every musician I knew," Lees writes, "[it was] a home-away-from-home, restaurant, watering hole, telephone answering service, informal savings (and loan) bank, and storage place for musical instruments."In a vivid series of portraits, we meet its clientele, an unforgettable gallery of individualists who happen to have been major artists--among them Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Art Farmer, Billy Taylor, Gerry Mulligan, and Paul Desmond. We share their laughter and meet their friends, such as the late actress Judy Holliday, their wives, even their children (as in the tragic story of Frank Rosolino). We learn about their loves, loyalties, infidelities, and struggles with fame and, sometimes alcohol and drug addiction. The magnificent pianist Bill Evans, describing to Lees his heroin addiction, says, "It's like death and transfiguration. Every day you wake in pain like death, and then you go out and score, and that is transfiguration. Each day becomes all of life in microcosm."Himself a noted songwriter, Lees writes about these musicians with vividness and intimacy. Far from being the inarticulate jazz musicians of legend, they turn out to be eloquent indeed, and the inventors of a colorful slang that has passed into the American language.And of course there was the music. A perceptive critic with enormous respect for the music he writes about, Lees notes the importance and special appeal of each artist's work, as in this comment about Artie Shaw's clarinet: "A fish, it has been said, is unaware of water, and Shaw's music so permeated the very air that it was only too easy to overlook just how good a player and how inventive and significant an improviser he was." Seller Inventory # DADAX0195046110
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