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Item Details
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FLYING HIGH
A JAZZ LIFE AND BEYOND |
| By: |
Peter King |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£29.99 |
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£25.49 |
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£4.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
095509089X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780955090899 |
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| Publisher: |
NORTHWAY PUBLICATIONS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2011 |
| Pages: |
350 |
| Synopsis: |
Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With cool, unsparing self-analysis, he describes the difficulties that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. Internationally recognised as a jazz star, he has performed and recorded with a galaxy of musical legends, many of them his close friends. Among those vividly recalled in this book are Bud Powell, Ray Charles, Anita O'Day, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Hampton Hawes, Al Haig, Philly Joe Jones, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Witherspoon, Dakota Staton, Red Rodney, Jon Hendricks, Tony Bennett and Marlene Dietrich. But while the story here centres on Peter King's life in jazz it shows other important sides of him too: his ambitions and achievements in classical composing, his interests outside music (he is a leading figure and writer in the aero-modelling world) and, above all, the treasured personal relationships that have sustained him through a turbulent life."Flying High" tells of an exhilarating high altitude journey, in the jazz world and beyond. |
| Illustrations: |
throughout the book |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Northway Publications |
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