Harlem jazz adventures a European baron's memoir, 1934-1969 / Timme Rosenkrantz ; adapted and edited by Fradley Hamilton Garner.

Author/creator Rosenkrantz, Timme
Other author Garner, Fradley Hamilton.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Scarecrow Press,
Descriptionxxxii, 297 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects
Jazz--New York (State). --New York. --History and criticism.
Jazz musicians--New York (State). --New York. --Anecdotes.

Uniform titleDus med jazzen. English
SeriesStudies in jazz ; no. 65
Studies in jazz ; no. 65. ^A141750
Contents Part I: 1934. Get off at 125th Street, and God be with you -- Don Redman sparks the Apollo, John Hammond offers a tour -- Stompin' at the Savoy to Might Chick Webb -- Take off those shades, we know who you are! -- Scat Master Leo Watson zaps it with "Zo-o-o-t!" -- From Met Opera to Empire Ballroom--and Benny Carter -- At the Shim Sham, a date with Young Billie Holiday -- Jake Vandermeulen loses everything by his shorts -- At Beefsteak Charlie's, there's Adrian Rollini -- Who said Danish Baron? Why, he's just a gigolo! -- "My technique terrifies me!" Says Willie "The Lion" Smith -- Art Tatum is down at Basement Brown's! -- To Fats Waller with Love, Honeysuckle Rosenkrantz -- Mezz Mezzrow puts Timme on a little pink cloud -- Canceled: Josh Billing's Greenwich Village Gig -- At Timme's farewell party, Fats Waller takes a bath --
Contents Part II: 1936-1969: Checking out Harlem's other halls of pleasure -- Voutie! slim and slam, Wow! Inez Cavanaugh -- Plugging a tune to W.C. Handy, cutting a record for RCA Victor -- Louis Armstrong kick-Starts the Mel-O-Dee Music Shop -- Harry "Father" White, Jitter bugs, and Bill Coleman's Band -- Turning off the lights at Mel-O-Dee Music Shop -- A Danish Novel Laureate digs Harlem by Night -- Eddie Condon and that good Ol'Nicksieland -- There is just one king, and he is the Duke -- Here lived Diamond Jim Brady and Jazz Baron Rosenkrantz -- The stupendous "stuff" of Jazz, Leroy Gordon (Hezekiah) Smith -- Discovering, befriending, recording Erroll Garner -- A great, big, fat White Christmas '44 -- Timme's recording service and threatened Jazz concert -- Zeb Julian's dream and Claude Thornhill's joke -- Bud Powell plays not being there -- Jam sessions outlawed? Come to Café Bohemia! -- Tatum leads a Black sheep into piano battle at Ruben's -- A last record session and tour of haunts -- Coleman Hawkins: the Picasso of Jazz.
General note"Adapted from the first-edition Danish book, Dus med jazzen mine jazzmemoirer : en bog om jazz--og andet godtfolk, and Timme Rosenkrantz's and Inez Cavanaugh's English draft translation, by Fradley Hamilton Garner"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-225), discography (p. 227-276) and indexes.
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LCCN 2011044894
ISBN9780810882096 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0810882094 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780810879782 (ebook)
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