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.

[mikeweil]

This is a very interesting publisher. I could by a third of their music books right away ...... sigh .....

[Dub Modal]

18 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

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.

 

For sure. I'm of the opinion that one can't truly get an accurate history of anything in the US without accounting for organized crime syndicate involvement. 

[Dub Modal]

The Ellington and James Johnson books look intriguing as well. I thought I saw 2 books on Duke but it was just one. 

Edit to correct again: there are 2 Ellington books. The second is Jack Chambers Tone Parallel. 

[Niko]

I bought the Booker Pitman record with the same cover as the book, so that one is smiling at me... "The World's Soprano Sax Nr 1" or something like that, released a few months after Bechet's death ... From what I know, it's a fascinating biography...

[JSngry]

This one caught my eye;

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Avenue-Breakdown

[Dub Modal]

Honestly a lot of them look fascinating. I picked up the Dorham and the In With The In Crowd books. 

[Joe]

ICYMI. "Alone Togerher" from Quiet Kenny serves as the soundtrack for the opening of last night's final episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO). Spoilers and confirmation here. https://www.tvline.com/2106429/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-season-1-finale-recap-episode-6-the-morrow/

 

 

[thirdtry]

This is now 'in-stock' at Amazon.

[Dub Modal]

My preorder came in last week. Have yet to crack it open beyond a quick scan however. 

[bertrand]

I thought it was coming in April? I better get it soon. Even though it was a pre-order, I already paid.

[Dub Modal]

22 minutes ago, bertrand said:

I thought it was coming in April? I better get it soon. Even though it was a pre-order, I already paid.

Yeah, mine arrived Wednesday last week. I ordered another book from them at the same time that was in stock and that came near immediately. Hope you get your copy soon. 

[Peter Friedman]

Just Checked Amazon - Whistle Stop is $99. for the Hard Back,  and $30. for the paperback.

Did not see and eBook mentioned.

 

[JSngry]

Mine has shipped.

[Dan Gould]

hmmm hope I get mine soon and then I will have to decide ... set aside the Prestige book to read this first or continue on and then move on to the KD?  I have barely cracked Listening to Prestige. Not that it doesn't strike me as something one could pick up and set down and read very piecemeal.

[Peter Friedman]

I finished "Listening To Prestige" earlier today. It was definitely the type of book I was able to read on and off over a number of weeks . Much of the book's discussion of musicians who recorded for Prestige was familiar to me, though every so often I discovered something of which I was unaware.

As I said in a previous post, the book caused me to listen to some albums on Prestige that I had not heard in a long long time. Though I would not consider the book an essential read for jazz fans, I did enjoy it and am glad I read it.

[bertrand]

I am OK with paying ahead as long as I get the book at some point!

[Big Beat Steve]

10 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

I finished "Listening To Prestige" earlier today. It was definitely the type of book I was able to read on and off over a number of weeks . Much of the book's discussion of musicians who recorded for Prestige was familiar to me, though every so often I discovered something of which I was unaware.

As I said in a previous post, the book caused me to listen to some albums on Prestige that I had not heard in a long long time. Though I would not consider the book an essential read for jazz fans, I did enjoy it and am glad I read it.

More or less my impressions. I am not finished with it but did read it piecemeal too so far. So IMO it can be put aside safely for a while to tackle another one that might require a read in one go. 

[Dan Gould]

12 hours ago, bertrand said:

I am OK with paying ahead as long as I get the book at some point!

I am wondering that myself and I cannot find hide nor hair of the order I placed in November after your tip on their big sale.  And I remember emailing someone because the Don Byas biography was a lagging shipment because its print-on-demand.  But I don't have my order and I don't have the emails.  So they better figure this out and send what I paid for or I will be quite upset.