Bücher von Gene Lees

Based on extensive interviews, Oscar Peterson is a well-informed and provocative exploration of Peterson's music.

Woody Herman was a central figure in the development of jazz - a musical giant whose career spanned the big band and bebop eras. Gene Lees has spent close to a decade interviewing Herman's friends and fellow musicians, to produce a vivid portrayal of the triumph and tragedy of a life in jazz.

Reflecting the social history of twentieth-century America through the mirror of popular music, this celebration of the generation of singers which emerged during and after the war, discusses vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and Sarah Vaughan, and the composers and lyricicts whose material so perfectly complemented the abilities of these new stars.

Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic work is being released in an expanded edition: Singers and the Song II. This volume includes famous selections from the original edition, including Lees' classic profile of Frank Sinatra, as well as new essays.

It was none other than Louis Armstrong who said, `These people who make the restrictions, they don't know nothing about music. It's no crime for cats of any colour to get together and blow.'In this collection of essays, Gene Lees brings together candid interviews with Jazz's greatest musicians and his own thoughts on the issue of racism, past and present, in jazz.