All This and Many a Dog: Memoirs of a Loser/Pessimist - Couverture souple

Godbolt, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0704300915 ISBN 13 : 9780704300910

Editeur : Quartet Books, 1989

Synopsis

'A warm, human autobiography... Godbolt writes with great insight about both the musicians and social changes of those heady times.' Listener 'Some of Jim Godbolt's passages had me laughing uncontrollably.' Times Educational Supplement 'Highly intelligent and articulate... He has an excellent eye and ear for the quirks of others... irrisistible.' George Melly, Guardian 'More than a chuckle guaranteed.' Financial Times 'Hilarious... essential reading to anyone with an interest in the bizarre machinations behind the glossy front of showbiz' Music Week 'His book gives us the whole spectrum of post-war pop music - the explosion of the Beatles and the demise of the big bands, written in an easy conversatioal tone.' Spike Milligan, Mail on Sunday 'A jazz book by a man who understands that jazz is struggle not perfection.' Mike Zwerin, International Herald Tribune. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Jim Godbolt first emerged on the British jazz scene as unofficial manager of George Webb's Dixielanders in the late 1940s. Throughout the trad boom he was an agent and club manager, and his story also encompasses the pop revolution of the early sixties when, uncharacteristically, he enjoyed a brief taste of success as agent of the Swinging Blue Jeans. In 1971, Godbolt retired from the music business in order to become a writer. His memoirs are packed with hilarious anecdotes and accurate portraits of British jazz stars such as George Melly, Sandy Brown, Humphrey Lyttelton and Ronnie Scott. With his renowned humour and insight, he recalls his years as an electricity meter reader, exiled from the jazz world and struggling for recognition as a writer. The final chapters chart his return to eminence in British jazz, becoming by dint of stubborn application a published author and editor of "Jazz" at Ronnie Scott's.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quartet Books
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0704300915
• ISBN 13: 9780704300910
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 217
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible