{"product_id":"the-biographical-encyclopedia-of-jazz-9780195320008","title":"The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz","description":"Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet?\u003cbr\u003e From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the careers of 3.300 jazz musicians from around the world. We learn that Duke Ellington worked his magic at The Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931, and that on Miles Davis's thirteenth birthday, his father gave him his first trumpet. Jazz is fast moving, and this edition clearly and concisely maps out an often dizzying web of professional associations. We find, for instance, that when Miles Davis was a St. Louis teenager he encountered Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for the first time. This meeting proved fateful, and by 1945 a nineteen-year-old Davis had left Juilliard to play with Parker on 52nd Street. Knowledge of these professional alliances, along with the countless others chronicled in this book, are central to tracing the development of significant jazz movements, such as the \"cool jazz\" that became one of Miles Davis's hallmarks.\u003cbr\u003e Arranged alphabetically according to last name, each entry of this book chronologically lists the highlights of every jazz musician's career. Highly accessible and vigorously researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e is, quite simply, the most comprehensive jazz encyclopedia available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeonard Feather\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of the deans of jazz criticism, is a widely respected figure in jazz writing. He moved to New York from England in the 1930s and made a significant career in jazz here as a journalist, producer, lecturer, broadcaster, musician, and writer of hundreds of jazz compositions. After founding \u003cem\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e series in the mid 1950s, he moved to California, becoming the jazz columnist for the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e. Leonard Feather died in 1994. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIra Gitler's\u003c\/strong\u003e writing has helped illuminate the jazz scene from 1951, when he wrote the first of countless album and CD annotations. He was the New York editor of \u003cem\u003eDownbeat\u003c\/em\u003e in the 1960s and continues to contribute to that publication, as well as to \u003cem\u003eJazzTimes\u003c\/em\u003e and Internet publications. His credits as a producer include recordings and concerts, and he teaches jazz history at the Manhattan School of Music. His books include the highly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eJazz Masters of the '40s\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSwing to Bop\u003c\/em\u003e, the latter written while he was a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318301266194,"sku":"9780195320008","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ecca840-9ad0-4569-bf87-1f8940bbe0d4.jpg?v=1727552777","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-biographical-encyclopedia-of-jazz-9780195320008","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}