
Classic Jazz
A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians
Floyd Levin(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2000
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-0-520-21360-9 (ISBN)
Description
Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music's colourful history. In this collection of his articles, published mostly in jazz magazines over a 50-year period, Levin takes us into the night-clubs, the recording studios, the record companies, and, most compellingly, into the lives of the musicians who made the great moments of the traditional jazz and swing eras. This collection of articles begins with Levin's first published piece and includes several new articles that were inspired by his work on this compilation. The articles are organised thematically, beginning with a piece on Kid Ory's early recordings and ending with a newly written article about the campaign to put up a momentum to Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. Along the way, Levin gives in-depth profiles of many well-known jazz legends, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, and many lesser-known figures who contributed greatly to the development of jazz.
The book readable and personable book extensively illustrated with previously unpublished photographs from Levin's personal collection, should be of interest to jazz scholars and fans everywhere for the overviews it provides of the music's evolution, and for the love of jazz it inspire on every page.
The book readable and personable book extensively illustrated with previously unpublished photographs from Levin's personal collection, should be of interest to jazz scholars and fans everywhere for the overviews it provides of the music's evolution, and for the love of jazz it inspire on every page.
More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
56 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-21360-9 (9780520213609)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
11/2000
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€33.99
Available for download
Persons
Floyd Levin has been published in many magazines, including Down Beat, Jazz Journal International,and American Rag. He has received several awards for his work, most recently the Leonard Feather Communicator Award given annually by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He was voted Number One Jazz Journalist in a recent readers' poll in the Mississippi Rag.