Black and Blue

Jazz Stories

Stanley Pan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
Vehicule Press (Verlag)
978-1-55065-611-4 (ISBN)

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Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic “Strange Fruit” made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song “I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?” And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.

Stanley Pan is the author of eight novels for adult and young readers and seven short story collections. He has been piloting "Quand le jazz est l" every week night on ICI Musique, Radio-Canada's all-music radio network for the last thirteen years, building up the knowledge behind this book. David Homelis the author of nine novels and a memoir, as well as a series of books for younger readers co-written with Marie-Louise Gay. A prize-winning writer and translator, he has worked in documentary film, print, and radio journalism. He lives in Montreal.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.03.2023
Übersetzer	David Homel
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Montreal, QC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 190 mm
Gewicht	267 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	1-55065-611-2 / 1550656112
ISBN-13	978-1-55065-611-4 / 9781550656114
Zustand	Neuware