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Concerto for Cootie

Name: Concerto for Cootie
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
SKU: 9781496859440
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The Life and Times of Cootie Williams

Autor: Steven C. Bowie

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Vydavateľ: University Press of Mississippi

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Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of f...

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Autor

Steven C. Bowie

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2025

Stránok

277

EAN

9781496859440

Enbook ID

49172488

Vydavateľ

University Press of Mississippi

Hmotnosť

634

Rozmery

156 x 235

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Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as one of the major soloists with the Duke Ellington orchestra, Williams was lured away to the band of Benny Goodman, one of the most popular bands in the country. At the time, it was a controversial move--it was still taboo for African Americans to share the bandstand with white people. Current references to the move usually reduce it to a song written by Raymond Scott, "When Cootie Left the Duke." In reality, it was a seismic event. The Black press predicted Black bands would collapse from raids on their ranks. White musicians were afraid they would be put out of work. And the white press stirred up visions of Black musicians mixing with white women in the new landscape of integrated orchestras.

The twenty years trumpeter Williams spent as a band leader (1942-1962) have been covered in only the barest of details. His involvement in politics and the civil rights movement have not been detailed before. An astute talent scout, Williams and his band launched the careers of Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Earl "Bud" Powell, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, and Pearl Bailey. He also was the first to record the music of a young Thelonious Monk, using two of Monk's compositions ("Epistrophy" and "'Round Midnight") as theme songs for his band.

Steven C. Bowie respectfully tells Williams's story, from his Alabama ancestry onward, including many new details rediscovered from the historical archives of the African American press and those gleaned from the author's interviews with his friends and colleagues.

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