The Ladies Who Sing With the Band
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by Betty Bennett, Barney Kessell
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Product Description
Betty Bennett evokes a bygone era when "territory" and "name" bands-each with its own "girl singer"-criscrossed the country in Ladies Who Sing With the Band. The author's career intersected with many of the icons of jazz and popular music, among them Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Georgie Auld, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Ventura, Benny Goodman, and Charlie Barnet. Bennett's anecdotes about these personalities enlighten and entertain, as does her entirely unselfconscious discussion of her marriage to Andre Previn and her relationship with her husband, guitar great Mundell Lowe. The book deals with several issues that transcend music. The entertainment industry-particularly the jazz world-was an early era of black/white professional and personal interaction. Moreover, the traveling big band represented a unique instance of women in an all-male workplace. Bennett confronts these issues of race and gender in a refreshingly forthright manner.
Specification
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Published
March 2000
Weight
382g
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 15 mm
ISBN
9780810837140
ISBN-10
0810837145
Eden Code
5287282
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ISBN: 9780810837140
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date: March 2000
Weight: 382g
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 5287282
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