A01=Max Gordon
Author_Max Gordon
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Product details
- ISBN 9780306801600
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 142 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 1982
- Publisher: Hachette Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since 1934, the Village Vanguard in New York's Greenwich Village has hosted the foremost in live jazz, folk music, and comedy. Its owner, Max Gordon, has now written a personal history of his club and the hundreds of entertainment legends who have played there. Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Woodie Guthrie, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Josh White, Pete Seeger,Max has stories about all of them. And what stories! As Nat Hentoff says in his introduction, "A good many so-called professional writers have not done nearly so well."
