300 pages, over 125 photos
| The legendary trumpeter vividly recounts what it was like to live the life of a big band musician during the turbulent 1940s to a very different time from the America of the new millennium...a time when race issues of our country were being defined; when jazz was a lifestyle and not a small specialized section of a music store; when the big bands ruled the land, with the trumpet the supreme commander; a time when music was an all-consuming passion for those who made it, listened to it, and danced to it. Here is the inside story of the music business, from life on the road to the recording studio to the studio orchestras of the major networks to the pit orchestras of Broadway. You've heard the music. Now hear what it was like to make it! |
| Once you've picked up The Man Behind the Horn, try to put it down...we dare you! |
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