(Book). The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.
Pops Foster: The Autobiography of a New Orleans Jazzman
The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker and John...
The book offers remarkable inside views of gangster clubowners, the great New York jazz clubs and the vicious "jazz wars" of the 1940s, Chicago from the 1950s, the very closed and special world of jazz musicians, the curious relationships ...
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The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights Dean Alger. music city, Lonnie (like Louis Armstrong in a somewhat different way) drew deeply on that rich musical gumbo and took the melding of those musical forms to the greatest ...
... Foster, “Tarnished Angels: Prostitution in Storyville, New Orleans, 1900–1910,” Louisiana History: The Journal of ... Pops Foster. 515. Ibid. 516. Ibid. 517. Kinzer, “Tio Family.” 518. Foster and as told to Tom Stoppard, Pops Foster. 519 ...