Jazz Appreciation Month 2018: Jazz and Justice: Biographies / Interviews / Personal Narratives

Summary A personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New York City from 1957 to 1964. A photojournalist for Life, Look, and Fortune, Snitzer was the photo editor and later associate editor of the influential jazz magazine Metronome.
Contents Beginnings -- MOP, MOP ... bebop -- My world of jazz -- On the bus with Pops and Duke -- The demise of Metronome -- Europe and Cambridge -- Conversations -- Switezerland -- Photographs -- Afterword: the state of jazz / Dan Morgenstern

In this first full biography, Alyn Shipton covers all aspects of Dizzy's remarkable life and career, taking us through his days as a flashy trumpet player in the swing bands of the 1930s, his innovative bebop work in the 1940s, the worldwide fame and adoration he earned through his big band tours in the 1950s, and the many recordings and performances which defined a career that extended into the early 1990s. Along the way, Shipton convincingly argues that Gillespie--rather than Charlie Parker as is widely believed--had the greatest role in creating bebop, playing in key jazz groups, teaching the music to others, and helping to develop the first original bebop repertory.

Series: North Texas Lives of Musicians, no. 4