sheldonm Posted January 24, 2008 Report Posted January 24, 2008 http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/b...sp?book_id=4104 Playing the Changes Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, Holly Maxson Foreword by Clint Eastwood $75.00 January 2008 isbn: 978-0-8265-1574-2 binding: Cloth w/ CD illustrations: 260 pages: 384 dimensions: 11 x 9.5 Legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (1910-2000) tells his compelling life story and illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs, exquisitely reproduced in this collectors' edition. Hinton's stories--witnessing a lynching as a child in Mississippi, working for Al Capone, breaking the color line in the recording studio--are equal to his celebrated photographs: capturing life on the road with Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday at her last recording date, and personal and professional views of icons such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, and Barbra Streisand. Playing the Changes draws from Hinton and Berger's earlier Bass Line, but differs significantly from that 1988 classic. Milt's narrative takes up where the earlier story left off, and more than 140 new photographs augment 115 of his best-known images. It also boasts a CD of Milt telling stories and performing music, as well as a discography and filmography. Photographs from Playing the Changes Herb Fleming and Sonny Greer, Beefsteak Charlie’s, New York City, 1954 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey, and Ella Fitzgerald, rehearsal, television studio, Pasadena, 1979 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Sam Cooke and Ernie Wilkins, recording studio, New York City, 1960 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Thelonious Monk, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and Count Basie, rehearsal, television studio, “Sound of Jazz” rehearsal, New York City, 1957 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Kenny Davern, Ricky Ford, and Dick Hyman, Sarasota, Florida, 1986 Photo by Milt Hinton, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Milt Hinton, Chicago, c. 1930 Unknown photographer, © The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection Author Bio In 1955, when he was fourteen, David G. Berger asked Milt Hinton for bass lessons--thus beginning a friendship and professional partnership that would last more than forty years. Berger, though, did not follow in his friend's footsteps to become a professional musician; instead he completed a doctorate in sociology and taught at Temple University for thirty years. In 1979, Holly Maxson began organizing Milt's photographs for the first book. Maxson and Berger co-direct the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, and in 2002 they completed their award-winning documentary about Milt's life, Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton. (Photo c The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection) Reviews “Playing the Changes is a permanent vividly multi-dimensional contribution to jazz history by “The Judge” Milt Hinton - a singular creator of that history.” --Nat Hentoff, January 2007 “The bass is always the foundation of a jazz group and for fifteen years Milt Hinton provided that for Cab Calloway's band and later for many legendary musicians of the 20th Century. Playing the Changes reveals the foundations of both music and American life. It's essential reading for anyone who really wants to be hip.” --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, January 2007 “Milt Hinton's story is a fascinating journey told by a person who lived and worked in jazz for more than seventy years. Regardless of where he was - backstage, on the road, or in the studio - he captured in his photographs unguarded moments from the world he knew so well.” --Helen Levitt, January 2007 “When I look at Milt Hinton's great photographs in Playing the Changes, it is like viewing a grand retrospective of the musicians I have known all my life. His fascinating stories add special meaning to these extraordinary photographs. The book confirms why Milt was everybody's favorite and one of the finest gentlemen and musicians I have ever known.” --Dave Brubeck, January 2007 Quote
Ken Dryden Posted January 24, 2008 Report Posted January 24, 2008 Thanks for sharing the information. I enjoyed both of Milt Hinton's earlier books and look forward to this one. Quote
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