Harlem Jazz Adventures
Title | Harlem Jazz Adventures PDF eBook |
Author | Timme Rosenkrantz |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0810882094 |
Timme Rosenkrantz (1911-1969) was a journalist, author, concert and record producer, broadcaster, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. He was the first European journalist to cover the jazz scene in Harlem from 1934 to 1969. In this English translation and adaptation of the original Danish-language memoir published in 1964, Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969 recounts Rosenkrantz's happy stranding in New York City, where he would record jazz artists and bands in his midtown apartment, organize his own jazz band, and run a record shop with his life companion, the black journalist and singer Inez Cavanaugh. Jazz lovers and social historians interested in the intersection of race and the music business will find in Rosenkrantz's memoir an invaluable primary source on Harlem's social scene and its musical legacy.
Harlem Jazz Adventures
Title | Harlem Jazz Adventures PDF eBook |
Author | Timme Rosenkrantz |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2012-01-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0810879786 |
Timme Rosenkrantz (1911–1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the “Jazz Baron” because of his noble lineage, he was the first European journalist to cover the jazz scene in Harlem. Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron’s Memoir, 1934–1969 recounts Rosenkrantz’s happy years in New York City, where he would produce jazz concerts, record top musicians and bands in his midtown apartment, organize a “dream band” for Timme Rosenkrantz and His Barrelhouse Barons, a 1938 RCA Victor recording, (DL) live in Harlem and run a record shop with his life companion, journalist and singer Inez Cavanaugh. A good friend of jazz impresario John Hammond, Rosenkrantz would become the James Boswell of the Harlem jazz scene. Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday—there wasn’t a New York jazz musician unknown to “Honeysuckle Rosenkrantz,” as christened by Fats Waller. Drawing on the published Danish-language original Dus med Jazzen, and an unpublished English free translation (DL) by Rosenkrantz and Cavanaugh, translator-adapter Fradley Hamilton Garner gives polish and context to Rosenkrantz’s stories of meetings with Cecile and Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Eddie Condon, Erroll Garner—whom Rosenkrantz discovered and was first to record—and many others. This book is a must-have for jazz lovers. Social historians interested in the intersection of race and the music business will find in Rosenkrantz’s memoir an invaluable primary source on Harlem’s social scene and its musical legacy.
Swinger!
Title | Swinger! PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Carmichael |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | Jazz musicians |
ISBN | 9781979764414 |
A collection of humorous, autobiographical essays about a California surfer-girl who became a jazz musician famous for playing stride piano.
Hot Jazz
Title | Hot Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | David Griffiths |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780810834156 |
Griffith's work results from many interviews with side-men in big bands of the early 1930's and early 40's, including Curtis Jones, Bill Dillard and Cliff Olson. Here the author brings a fresh perspective to the rich legacy they left behind them.
Harlem Unbound
Title | Harlem Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Spivey |
Publisher | Chaosium Incorporated |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-04-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781568824222 |
Sourcebook and scenarios for 7th edition Call of Cthulhu
Harlem of the West
Title | Harlem of the West PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Pepin |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780811845489 |
Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. With archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it, this vividly illustrated tour will delight jazz fans and history aficionados.
Harlem Jazz Era
Title | Harlem Jazz Era PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart A. Kallen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | African American arts |
ISBN | 9781590183588 |
From the glitter of the Cotton Club to the seedy back streets, Harlem as a traveler in the 1920s would have known it is depicted in this highly readable book.