For The Benny Carter Lover. This book is your ultimate resource for Benny Carter. Here you will find the most up-to-date 219 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Benny Carter's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition - 1990s, Benny Carter - Return to Harlem and a move to Los Angeles, Cozy Cole, 37th Grammy Awards - Jazz, Doc Cheatham - Working with the name bands, Billy Eckstine - Biography, Kennedy Center Honors - 1990s, Carmen McRae - Biography, Phil Woods - As leader, Helen Merrill - Later career, Metronome Magazine - Metronome All-Stars Band, George Russell (composer) - Early life, Louis Metcalf, All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) - Track listing, The Lonely Hours, Taking a Chance On Love - Recorded versions, All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) - Personnel, Dicky Wells, Ruth Olay - Career, Heebie Jeebies (composition), Frank Wess - Biography, Mundell Lowe - As sideman, Billy Eckstine - Discography, Carter, Gillespie Inc., I Hear a Rhapsody, Wardell Gray - Arrival on the West Coast, A Classy Pair - Reception, Monterey Jazz Festival - Performers, Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 - Select collective personnel, Cool jazz - Background, Fletcher Henderson - Biography, Honeysuckle Rose (song) - Notable Recordings, Art Pepper - Career, Stormy Weather (song) - Other versions, Far Away Places - Recorded versions, Sid Catlett - Biography, Larry Gales, Benny Carter - Compilation albums, List of Jo Stafford compilation albums (1955-1999) - Big Band Sound, and much more...

“Transfixing…[Wayne’s] prison diary is, above all, a testament to the irrepressibility of his charisma—his is a force that can never go dormant, even when it’s not plainly on display.” –The New Yorker From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes Gone ’Til November, a deeply personal and revealing account of his time spent incarcerated on Rikers Island for eight months in 2010. In 2010, recording artist Lil Wayne was at the height of his career. A fixture in the rap game for more than a decade, Lil Wayne (aka Weezy) had established himself as both a prolific musician and a savvy businessman, smashing long-held industry records, winning multiple Grammy Awards, and signing up-and-coming talent like Drake and Nicki Minaj to his Young Money label. All of this momentum came to a halt when he was convicted of possession of a firearm and sentenced to a yearlong stay at Rikers Island. Suddenly, the artist at the top of his game was now an inmate at the mercy of the American penal system. At long last, Gone ’Til November reveals the true story of what really happened while Wayne was behind bars, exploring everything from his daily rituals to his interactions with other inmates to how he was able to keep himself motivated and grateful. Taken directly from Wayne’s own journal, this intimate, personal account of his incarceration is an utterly humane look at the man behind the artist.

Irwin Chusid profiles a number of "outsider" musicians - those who started as "outside" and eventually came "in" when the listening public caught up with their radical ideas. Included are The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Wilis, and others.

Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.