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010 a| 96015446;

020 a| 0810831627 (alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Vaché, Warren W.,d| 1914-2005.=| ^A213272;

245 10 a| Back beats and rim shots :b| the Johnny Blowers story /c| Warren W. Vaché.;

300 a| xiv, 197 pages, 16 pages of plates :b| illustrations, portraits ;c| 23 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Studies in jazz ;v| no. 25;

500 a| Includes index.;

504 a| Discography: pages 155-183.;

505 0 a| Foreword / Mel Tormé -- Spartanburg -- Ft. Myers -- On the road with Bob Pope -- New York at last -- The Berigan band -- Ben Bernie -- Joan Lowery -- Learning to watch the stick -- Frank Sinatra -- Badinage with Benny -- Radio recollections -- Joan steps out: performing with Perry -- The Casones and Club Blowers -- Jimmy Ryan's and a Broadway bomb -- Cowboys, rabbits, and other fauna -- At home in Fairfield Park -- Scuffling with Scott -- Swinging with Sinatra -- Eddie Fisher and Coca Cola -- The Fisher fiasco -- "You're only as good as..." -- The dark days -- Johnny Blowers, disc jockey -- A sad and lonely time -- Music: the magic medicine -- Beef, Bedlam, and jazz -- The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band -- Life goes on.;

520 a| Back Beats and Rim Shots is the biography of a drummer. This drummer is Johnny Blowers, a man who never wanted to do anything else but play drums and has devoted his life to them. This is the Johnny Blowers who gambled his future on a chance-of-a-lifetime trip to New York City, braving the Big Apple without friends or connections and staving off starvation with soup and crackers until the almost unbelievable "big break" started him on the road to success. This is the Johnny Blowers who went on to play in Bobby Hackett's first band at Nick's, the famous jazz spot in Greenwich village, making classic records for Vocalion; who then joined the great Bunny Berigan band at the urging of singer Red McKenzie; and who later toured and recorded with practically every big name in the entertainment world - Frank Sinatra, Eddie Condon, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield - just to skim the surface of a long list. Back Beats and Rim Shots is the story of a remarkable man and his fascinating era of network radio, classic jazz, and big bands.;

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830 0 a| Studies in jazz ;v| no. 25.=| ^A141750;

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Back beats and rim shots : the Johnny Blowers story / Warren W. Vaché.

Author/creator	Vaché, Warren W.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press ; [Newark, N.J.] : Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 1997.
Description	xiv, 197 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Blowers, John. Jazz musicians--United States. --Biography.

Series	Studies in jazz ; no. 25 Studies in jazz ; no. 25. ^A141750
Contents	Foreword / Mel Tormé -- Spartanburg -- Ft. Myers -- On the road with Bob Pope -- New York at last -- The Berigan band -- Ben Bernie -- Joan Lowery -- Learning to watch the stick -- Frank Sinatra -- Badinage with Benny -- Radio recollections -- Joan steps out: performing with Perry -- The Casones and Club Blowers -- Jimmy Ryan's and a Broadway bomb -- Cowboys, rabbits, and other fauna -- At home in Fairfield Park -- Scuffling with Scott -- Swinging with Sinatra -- Eddie Fisher and Coca Cola -- The Fisher fiasco -- "You're only as good as..." -- The dark days -- Johnny Blowers, disc jockey -- A sad and lonely time -- Music: the magic medicine -- Beef, Bedlam, and jazz -- The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band -- Life goes on.
Abstract	Back Beats and Rim Shots is the biography of a drummer. This drummer is Johnny Blowers, a man who never wanted to do anything else but play drums and has devoted his life to them. This is the Johnny Blowers who gambled his future on a chance-of-a-lifetime trip to New York City, braving the Big Apple without friends or connections and staving off starvation with soup and crackers until the almost unbelievable "big break" started him on the road to success. This is the Johnny Blowers who went on to play in Bobby Hackett's first band at Nick's, the famous jazz spot in Greenwich village, making classic records for Vocalion; who then joined the great Bunny Berigan band at the urging of singer Red McKenzie; and who later toured and recorded with practically every big name in the entertainment world - Frank Sinatra, Eddie Condon, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield - just to skim the surface of a long list. Back Beats and Rim Shots is the story of a remarkable man and his fascinating era of network radio, classic jazz, and big bands.
Local note	Little-296139--305131002543R
General note	Includes index.
Bibliography note	Discography: pages 155-183.
LCCN	96015446
ISBN	0810831627 (alk. paper)

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