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Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop

Gary Giddins

Collects the best of Giddins' articles for the Village Voice written since 1973. Thirty pungent articles cover singers such as Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan, and Ethel Waters; instrumentalists including Count Basie and Charlie Parker; such composers as Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, and Sonny Rollins; and the jazz trade in general.

GenresArts & PhotographyMusicHistory & CriticismMusical Genres

313 pages, 4 editions

English edition · First published 1981 by Oxford University · ISBN 9780195028355

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Editions

4 editions

English

  • Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop · Oxford University · 1981 · ISBN 9780195028355 This page
  • Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop · Da Capo Press · 2000 · ISBN 9780306809248
  • Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop · Oxford University Press · 1981 · ISBN 9780195032130
  • Riding On A Blue Note · ISBN 9781131898902

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