Author : Max Gordon
Release : 1982-03-22
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 600/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Live At The Village Vanguard by : Max Gordon
Download or read book Live At The Village Vanguard written by Max Gordon. This book was released on 1982-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1934, the Village Vanguard in New York's Greenwich Village has hosted the foremost in live jazz, folk music, and comedy. Its owner, Max Gordon, has now written a personal history of his club and the hundreds of entertainment legends who have played there. Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Woodie Guthrie, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Josh White, Pete Seeger-Max has stories about all of them. And what stories! As Nat Hentoff says in his introduction, "A good many so-called professional writers have not done nearly so well."
