A01=Charlie Barnet
Author_Charlie Barnet
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Product details
- ISBN 9780306804922
- Weight: 246g
- Dimensions: 128 x 202mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 1992
- Publisher: Hachette Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included "Cherokee", "Pompton Turnpike", and "Skyliner". But he was also the first to break the colour barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge, and singer Lena Horne; his white musicians included Jack Purvis, Red Norvo, Maynard Ferguson, and Doc Severinson. Barnet not only played jazz, he lived the jazz life: in this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages. Charlie Barnet epitomised the jazz age, and there are few memoirs as lively as "Those Swinging Years".
