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https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Whistle-Stop The Dorham bio is advertised on the same page....

Another Charles Lloyd collaboration with Zakir Hussain:

Gluzunov, Glinka, Balakirev

What?! Thanks for the tip on this, Dan... any more info re author or publishing press?

No software, I just complied it. I will have to check it out.

Definitely in for this!

I said it backwards, sorry. I meant that he probably had MORE respect for real players like Tjader than he would have had for the likes of Fogerty.

Bob Dylan “The Cutting Edge Collector’s Edition” disc 13 This is a disc with final takes of “Visions of Johanna”

Thanks for that link ... another great trumpeter getting the bio treatment in early 2026: Kenny Dorham.

It’s available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and more. It’s available through the publisher, University Press of Mississippi here - https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Concerto-for-Cootie

Thanks for the info this is definitely on my radar ... is there a purchase link or should I just go thru Amazon?

Last night and again right now: Gorgeous.

I also compiled a 4CD set to supplement the book. https://www.jazzwise.com/review/cootie-williams-concerto-for-cootie-selected-recordings-1928-1962

Just out of curiosity, what software did you use to make the index? I used Sky Index to do the index for my book.

Me too.

This sounds very interesting. I am tempted ...

So sorry I missed it! Fell asleep & ended up at late sets in NYC

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this info!

RELEASE DATE - 17 NOVEMBER 2025 The first full-length biography of a true giant of jazz Description Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman, one of the most popular bands in the country. At the time, it was a controversial move—it was still taboo for African Americans to share the bandstand with white people. Current references to the move usually reduce it to a song written by Raymond Scott, "When Cootie Left the Duke." In reality, it was a seismic event. The Black press predicted Black bands would collapse from raids on their ranks. White musicians were afraid they would be put out of work. And the white press stirred up visions of Black musicians mixing with white women in the new landscape of integrated orchestras. The twenty years trumpeter Williams spent as a band leader (1942-1962) have been covered in only the barest of details. His involvement in politics and the civil rights movement have not been detailed before. An astute talent scout, Williams and his band launched the careers of Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Earl “Bud” Powell, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, and Pearl Bailey. He also was the first to record the music of a young Thelonious Monk, using two of Monk's compositions (“Epistrophy” and “‘Round Midnight”) as theme songs for his band. Steven C. Bowie respectfully tells Williams’s story, from his Alabama ancestry onward, including many new details rediscovered from the historical archives of the African American press and those gleaned from the author’s interviews with his friends and colleagues.

James Brandon Lewis: Apple Cores Meant to post this as a CD.

Maybe he was a bit tired about the business part. He preferred the comfort of having a label situated close to his home. Besides that I don't think Norman Granz would have featured Tjader - he had Milt Jackson, and Tjader never was that close to the JATP vibe that permeated Pablo. Duncan Reid has a more favourable view of Zaentz in this respect. Read the book. Duncan deserves a few more sales for his work.

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