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Follow your heart : moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues, Joe Evans ; with Christopher Brooks

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Follow Your Heart chronicles the career of Joe Evans, an alto saxophonist who between 1939 and 1965 performed with some of America's greatest musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk, Billie Holiday, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lionel Hampton, and Ivory Joe Hunter. Evans warmly recounts his wide range of experience in the music industry, comments on popular New York City venues for black music, and offers invaluable insight into race relations within the industry from the 1920s to 1970s. Christopher Brooks is a professor of anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He co-authored Shirley Verrett's bestselling autobiography, I Never Walked Alone
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eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages
Note
Includes discography (p. 153-[155]) and index
Contents
  • Pensacola blues
  • Music crazy
  • Boy meets band
  • Ma Rainey's deep South
  • New York, New York
  • Hootie and the Bird
  • The big, big bands
  • Call me "Italy"
  • The end of an era
  • The rhythm and blues scene
  • The rise of Carnival Records
  • After the Manhattans
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Follow your heart : moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues
Title
Follow your heart
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moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues
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Joe Evans ; with Christopher Brooks
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Language
eng
Summary
Follow Your Heart chronicles the career of Joe Evans, an alto saxophonist who between 1939 and 1965 performed with some of America's greatest musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk, Billie Holiday, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lionel Hampton, and Ivory Joe Hunter. Evans warmly recounts his wide range of experience in the music industry, comments on popular New York City venues for black music, and offers invaluable insight into race relations within the industry from the 1920s to 1970s. Christopher Brooks is a professor of anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He co-authored Shirley Verrett's bestselling autobiography, I Never Walked Alone
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autobiography
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1916-2014
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Evans, Joe
Dewey number
  • 781.65092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
ML419.E96
LC item number
A3 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • discographies
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1957-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Brooks, Christopher Antonio
Series statement
African American music in global perspective
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  • Evans, Joe
  • Jazz musicians
  • Rhythm and blues musicians
  • Evans, Joe
  • Jazz musicians
  • Rhythm and blues musicians
  • United States
  • Evans, Joe
  • Jazz
  • Jazzmusiker
  • Rhythm and Blues
  • Saxophonist
  • USA
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Follow your heart : moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues, Joe Evans ; with Christopher Brooks
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Publication
Note
Includes discography (p. 153-[155]) and index
Bibliography note
Includes discography (pages 153-155) and index
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volume
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nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Pensacola blues -- Music crazy -- Boy meets band -- Ma Rainey's deep South -- New York, New York -- Hootie and the Bird -- The big, big bands -- Call me "Italy" -- The end of an era -- The rhythm and blues scene -- The rise of Carnival Records -- After the Manhattans
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)811410302
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Follow your heart : moving with the giants of jazz, swing, and rhythm and blues, Joe Evans ; with Christopher Brooks
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Publication
Note
Includes discography (p. 153-[155]) and index
Bibliography note
Includes discography (pages 153-155) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Pensacola blues -- Music crazy -- Boy meets band -- Ma Rainey's deep South -- New York, New York -- Hootie and the Bird -- The big, big bands -- Call me "Italy" -- The end of an era -- The rhythm and blues scene -- The rise of Carnival Records -- After the Manhattans
Extent
1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)811410302

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