Gene Lees: 3 books
by Gene Lees
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
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 volume is being rereleased in an expanded edition. The new edition retains a number of famous pieces from the original volume,...
Portrait of Johnny
The Life of John Herndon Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends.
“Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” “Accentuate the Positive,” “Satin Doll,” “Days of Wine...
Oscar Peterson
The Will to Swing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six...