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.