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

By:

Evans, Joe, 1916-2014 [Author]

Contributor(s):

Brooks, Christopher Antonio, 1957-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252091131
9781283251020

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

ML419 .F655 2008

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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Includes discography (pages 153-155.) and index.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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