Whistle Stop: Kenny Dorham, Jazz, and the Journey of a Texas Family

[medjuck]

34 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Whistle-Stop

 

The first one I think I want to read after it arrives is the biography of the infamous Morris Levy.  $20 and change with free shipping for new hardcovers. - this is a tremendous deal

I didn't see that listed.  However I recommend "Me and the Mob and the Music" by Tommy James in which Levy is a central figure. 

[Dan Gould]

7 minutes ago, medjuck said:

I didn't see that listed.  However I recommend "Me and the Mob and the Music" by Tommy James in which Levy is a central figure. 

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Godfather-of-the-Music-Business

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

46 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Whistle-Stop

 

The first one I think I want to read after it arrives is the biography of the infamous Morris Levy.  $20 and change with free shipping for new hardcovers. - this is a tremendous deal

Levy was one of the scummiest of scumbags. I don't know that I'd want to read a book about his life.

[Dan Gould]

1 minute ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Levy was one of the scummiest of scumbags. I don't know that I'd want to read a book about his life.

Oh c'mon - like people don't read memoirs by mobsters?  And this isn't just a mobbed up guy, he was deep in the music we love.  That's what makes his story interesting to me.

 

[JSngry]

You can read Hit Men and take it from there.