Benny Goodman and the Swing Era (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195052787)

This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the King of Swing. The author offers insights into the character and music of a man who helped transform the Depression years into the Swing Era.

Author: James Lincoln Collier
ISBN-10: 0195052781
ISBN-13: 9780195052787
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/26/1989
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.41w x 1.48d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/1992 pg. 1510

About the Author

About the Author:
James Lincoln Collier is the author of over forty books, which have been published in twelve languages, including Russian: he is the only American writer on jazz to have official acceptance in the U.S.S.R. His books on music include biographies of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, The Making of Jazz and Practical Music Theory, used in many schools. His articles on music have also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, and many others. He contributed major articles to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and to Grove's Dictionary of Jazz. Collier has worked as a jazz musician around New York for many years, and has played with groups in a dozen nations around the world.