Dance Of The Infidels: A Portrait Of Bud Powell - Couverture souple

Paudras, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306808161 ISBN 13 : 9780306808166

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 1998

Synopsis

What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924-1966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock therapy in psychiatric institutions, illnesses, physical and mental abuse from people who fed him dangerous drugs to control him, and the indifference of his contemporaries to his genius. Francis Paudras, a young jazz fan who met Powell in the late 1950s, released him from his unfavourable surroundings, encouraged him to create some of his finest music, and took care of him as if he were his child. Powell's story, Dance of the Infidels, is one of the most moving of jazz memoirs,and served as the basis for Bertrand Tavernier's film 'Round Midnight, starring Dexter Gordon. Here, for the first time in English, is a portrait of a friendship as surprising and heartbreaking as Bud Powell's timeless music.

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À propos de l'auteur

Francis Paudras's books include a biography of Charlie Parker and a book of jazz photographs. He took his own life in November 1997, in Antigny, France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0306808161
• ISBN 13: 9780306808166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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