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"Gigi Gryce was a saxophonist and composer who worked with some of the best-known names in jazz during the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach ... Years of research and dozens of interviews were conducted for this book, resulting in a biography that, for the first time, tells the true story of this often overlooked figure and illuminates his contributions to one of the richest periods in jazz history"--Back cover.
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Rat race blues: the musical life of Gigi Gryce
2014, Current Research in Jazz
in English
- Second edition.
0990668606 9780990668602
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Pensacola blues
Education : Hartford and Boston
Manhattan blues
Paris the beautiful
Laying the foundation
On the cutting edge
In the laboratory
The out chorus
Metamorphosis
Epilogue.
Edition Notes
"Appendices, including a complete Gigi Gryce discography ... and regularly updated additions and corrections to this book are available online"--Page 362.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361) and index.