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Someone to Watch over Me : The Life and Music of Ben Webster.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jazz Perspectives SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472025985
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Someone to Watch over MeDDC classification:
  • 788.7/165092 B
LOC classification:
  • ML419
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Kansas City Childhood (1909-1927) -- 2. From Piano to Saxophone (1927-1931) -- 3. From Kansas City to New York (1931-1934) -- 4. From Smack to Duke (1934-1940) -- 5. Golden Years with Ellington (1940-1943) -- 6. From Fifty-second Street to Kansas City (1943-1949) -- 7. From Kansas City to Monterey (1949-1959) -- 8. Last Years in the United States (1959-1964) -- 9. First Years in Europe (1964-1966) -- 10. The Dutch Years (1966-1969) -- 11. The Last Busy Years in Denmark (1969-1973) -- Appendix: Ben Webster on CD, DVD, and VHS -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations following page 178.
Summary: The definitive biography of the great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Kansas City Childhood (1909-1927) -- 2. From Piano to Saxophone (1927-1931) -- 3. From Kansas City to New York (1931-1934) -- 4. From Smack to Duke (1934-1940) -- 5. Golden Years with Ellington (1940-1943) -- 6. From Fifty-second Street to Kansas City (1943-1949) -- 7. From Kansas City to Monterey (1949-1959) -- 8. Last Years in the United States (1959-1964) -- 9. First Years in Europe (1964-1966) -- 10. The Dutch Years (1966-1969) -- 11. The Last Busy Years in Denmark (1969-1973) -- Appendix: Ben Webster on CD, DVD, and VHS -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations following page 178.

The definitive biography of the great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.

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