Those Swinging Years: Autobiography of Charlie Barnet - Hardcover

Those Swinging Years: Autobiography of Charlie Barnet (inscribed by Stanley Dance)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine in fine, price clipped dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by co-author Stanley Dance on the half title page. Hardcover. 225 pp. with index of arrangements and arrangers, index of members of barnet's bands, index of singers, index of performance locations, filmography, selected discography, general index. Illustrated with photos. Autobiography of saxiphonist and one of the swing era's most popular band leaders, Charlie Barnet (1913-1991). Barnet had his first professional gig while still a high school student in New York City, sneaking away after role all to play three sessions a day in a manhattan Chinese restaurant. Within a few years he was leading his own band at the Paramount and the Cocoanut Grove in New York.He relocated to Hollywood in 1931, headlining at the Palomar and Casa Manana in L.A. Some of his biggest hots included "Cherokee", "Pompton Turnpike", and "Skyliner". With a blind eye to racial prejudice, Barnet was able to draw on the sounds of many Black musicians such as Garnet Clark, Trummy Young, Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge and vocalists Bunny Briggs and Lena Horne. Artikel-Nr. E31630

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