Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie

Author(s)

• Basie, Count
• Murray, Albert

Bibliographic Information

Good morning blues : the autobiography of Count Basie

as told to Albert Murray

Da Capo Press, 1995

• pbk.

Note

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1985

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Count Basie (19041984) was one of America's pre-eminent jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers. With the charm, dry humor, and inexorable logic of phrasing that were his alone, Good Morning Blues stands as both testimony and tribute to a remarkably rich life.

Table of Contents

Part One: 19041951 The Red Devils: 19271929 Red Bank and Thereabouts: 1904Circa 1923 The Columbia Wheel: Circa 1924Circa 1925 Harlem Stride Time: Circa 1925Circa 1926 TOBA: 19261927 * Moten Swing Territory: 19291935 Three, Three, and Three at the Reno: 19351936 East to the Apple and The Woodside: 19361937 The Famous Door and the National Scene: 19381941 * Part Two: 19511984 The Comeback: 19501954 Sixteen Men Swinging: 19541959 Stomping Grounds and Stopping Places: 19591964 One More Time and One More Once: 19641976 Ole Base Up to Now: 19761984 The Holy Main I: 19391941 The Holy Main II: 19391941

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Details

• NCID: BA28018913
• ISBN:
  • 0306806096
• LCCN: 94044697
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 399 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML422.B25
  • DC20 : 781.65/092
  • DC20 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Basie, Count, 1904-
  • LCSH : Jazz musicians -- Biography