Bill Crow is an accomplished jazz musician and writer. He is the author of Jazz Anecdotes, which was voted Best Jazz Book of 1991 in a Jazz Times readers' poll.
"This is really a book about the 'jazz life' more than about the
music per se....These narratives are a healthy dose of stories
about the jazz free-lance musicians' life and music."--Dick
Weissman
"In From Birdland to Broadway, Crow shares insightful anecdotes
from his long career and writes in a style that's as relaxed,
friendly, and straight ahead as a Mulligan baritone sax solo....He
never skimps on the humorous asides and telling details. What's
more, he renders most of the technical stuff, such as flugelhornist
Clark Terry's method of rotary breathing, understandable to even
the most unrhythmic or tonedeaf reader. Bop lives in Crow's
colorful account."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Providing some fascinating social history, [Crow] has written a
book of intimate and entertaining vignettes about some modern jazz
masters."--Library Journal
Bassist Crow follows up Jazz Anecdotes , his breezy collection of tales about colleagues he encountered in his 40-year career as a performer, with this spirited and affectionate memoir. A native of Seattle, Crow was a valve trombonist when he came to New York City in 1950 as a jazz-mad 22-year-old; he switched to bass for a gig in the Adirondacks, a job so hastily arranged that he had to hitchhike there with an equally penniless friend whose knowledge of Greek won the sympathy of Greek cooks at eateries en route. With similar color Crow recounts his ``scuffling'' from bar to union hall, from one apartment (and roommate) to the next in an attempt to make ends meet. As his career picked up, he played with everyone from Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Dinah Washington to Simon and Garfunkel. Crow's enthusiastic reminiscences, relayed with a musician's sure pacing, vivify an era. (Oct.)
"This is really a book about the 'jazz life' more than about the music per se....These narratives are a healthy dose of stories about the jazz free-lance musicians' life and music."--Dick Weissman "In From Birdland to Broadway, Crow shares insightful anecdotes from his long career and writes in a style that's as relaxed, friendly, and straight ahead as a Mulligan baritone sax solo....He never skimps on the humorous asides and telling details. What's more, he renders most of the technical stuff, such as flugelhornist Clark Terry's method of rotary breathing, understandable to even the most unrhythmic or tonedeaf reader. Bop lives in Crow's colorful account."--Cleveland Plain Dealer "Providing some fascinating social history, [Crow] has written a book of intimate and entertaining vignettes about some modern jazz masters."--Library Journal
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