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1 online resource (502 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Prologue: "I Made Things Work"; 1 "All I Wanted Was My Freedom"; 2 "A Marvelous Crucible"; 3 Cole Train; 4 "The Opener"; 5 Let Freedom Swing; 6 Norman Granz versus . . .; 7 Mambo Jambo; 8 Enter Ella and Oscar; 9 The Continental; 10 "I Feel Most at Home in the Studio"; 11 Starry Nights; 12 "That Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald"; 13 The Jazz Hurricane; 14 "The Lost Generation"; 15 Duke, Prez, and Billie; 16 Joie de Verve; 17 Across the Sea; 18 "Musicians Don't Want to Jam"; 19 Picasso on the Beach; 20 "One More Once." |
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21 Takin' It on Out--for Good22 "Somewhere There's Music"; Epilogue: "My Career, Such As It Is . . ."; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| Summary |
"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant--and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biogra. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Granz, Norman, 1918-2001.
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Granz, Norman, 1918-2001. |
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Impresarios -- United States -- Biography.
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Impresarios. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Jazz musicians. |
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz. |
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Music -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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African American musicians -- Biography.
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African American musicians. |
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African American musicians -- United States.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music.
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Civil rights movements. |
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Songs and music.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Music.
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Biographies.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Music.
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Print version: Hershorn, Tad. Norman Granz : The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520267824 |
| ISBN |
9780520949775 (electronic book) |
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0520949773 (electronic book) |
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9780520267824 |
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0520267826 |
| Standard No. |
9786613291837 |
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