ISBN: 0-88739-150-8
108 pp.
Size: 8.5 x 11
Paperback Original
Price: $18.50
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Jazz Scrapbook
Jim Goggin , Dick Oxtot
Share with the authors some special memories of:
• Robert Crumb • Barbara Dane
• Bunk Johnson • Janis Joplin
• George Lewis • Bob Mielke
• Turk Murphy • "Kid" Ory
• Mugsy Spanier • Yerba Buena Jazz Band
This "scrapbook" of humorous anecdotes from the lives of these colorful musical artists also includes a chapter on women in jazz, and one on the Swinging A's, who played toe-tapping music between innings for the Oakland A's baseball team. With over 160 photographs and illustrations, the book also includes an index and a complete Oxtot discography.
Review: "How meaningful and fun it is to read a book about jazz musicians by authors who were there. Dick Oxtot crossed paths with many musicians and he shared special memories that will delight the reader."
-Peter Cluthe, author, composer, and jazz musician
"A lavishly detailed memoir of a main current in the wide river of traditional jazz in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jazz Scrapbook fills a vital niche....[The] down-home, unassuming style of presentation is echoed by this richly illustrated, first-person chronicle...."
-William Carter Author of Preservation Hall
Bio: DICK OXTOT, musician and composer, has been a musical institution in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 40s. He has recorded or played with a rich diversity of musicians-from the Dixieland Rhythm Kings to the Polecats to Janis Joplin. Oxtot has played cornet, banjo, string bass, tuba and piano, penning such tunes as "Ain't Nobody Got the Blues Like Me," "My Lovin' Imogene," and "Polecat Strut." For many years he was with the Swinging A's Band.
JIM GOGGIN founded the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation and has reproduced recordings and written for jazz periodicals. He is the author of TURK MURPHY-JUST FOR THE RECORD; BOB SCOBY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DISCOGRAPHY, and THE GREAT JAZZ REVIVAL (co-authored with Peter Clute, the well-known jazz pianist).
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