Those swinging years : the autobiography of Charlie Barnet
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Those swinging years : the autobiography of Charlie Barnet
Da Capo Press, 1992
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1984
Discography: p. 211-216
Includes index
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Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included "Cherokee", "Pompton Turnpike", and "Skyliner". But he was also the first to break the colour barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge, and singer Lena Horne; his white musicians included Jack Purvis, Red Norvo, Maynard Ferguson, and Doc Severinson. Barnet not only played jazz, he lived the jazz life: in this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages. Charlie Barnet epitomised the jazz age, and there are few memoirs as lively as "Those Swinging Years".
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