Gene Santoro: 2 books
Myself When I Am Real
The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression...
Highway 61 Revisited
The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary...