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From Satchmo To Miles Paperback – August 22, 1987

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Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Don Ellis, and Miles Davis-these are the dozen jazz figures whom Leonard Feather chose to describe the development of jazz. This is the first Feather book to examine in-depth the innovative figures who have led the way throughout the music's history. As composer, producer, and for almost half-a-century one of its leading critics, Feather has a unique perspective of these jazz immortals. He has worked with and known all of them. "These are portraits of human beings first, analyses of musicians or musical history only peripherally if at all," says Feather in his new foreword. A warm, affectionate, and perceptive inside account of twelve originals, the book is packed with wonderful stories. As Feather says: "Most of all I am grateful for the inspiration and friendship of the artists themselves. Armstrong and Ellington were directly responsible, through their records, for drawing me to jazz. After their magic had worked on me, the others, one by one, sustained and refreshed and invigorated my interest in, an involvement with, this liveliest of twentieth-century arts."
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    August 22, 1987
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    030680302X
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0306803024
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Leonard Feather is one of the handful of indispensable jazz critics. His many books include From Satchmo to Miles, Inside Jazz, Laughter from the Hip (with Jack Tracy), all published by Da Capo Press, and The Pleasures of Jazz, along with other works. Composer, pianist, record producer, critic, he remains a vital presence on the jazz scene.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Press (August 22, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 030680302X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0306803024
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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Lillie Wyatt
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2018
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Thoroughly enjoyed learning about all the musicians.
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karlojazz
4.0 out of 5 stars Leonard Feather Reflects Upon a Dozen Major Figures in Jazz
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Many jazz fans will already be familiar with Leonard Feather from the numerous liner notes written during the 1950s and also from his superb ground-breaking history of the bebop movement in jazz, called Inside Jazz, originally published in 1949. Others may recognize his name as an editor, along with Ira Gitler, of a series of massive encyclopedias of jazz.

This work, From Satchmo to Miles, presents Feather's reflections on many of the greatest names in the world of jazz derived from personal interviews as well as interviews with associates of the main figures. Feather's emphasis is on portraits of these artists as human beings rather than any type of in-depth musicological analysis of major works.

As a lifelong listener of jazz music and a life spent in and out of the business side of jazz as a record producer and concert promoter, Feather illuminates aspects of the lives of jazz musicians that seldom get included in more biographical accounts.

The major figures in jazz presented in this book include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz concert promoter and record producer Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, band leader Don Ellis, and Miles Davis.

Although it is not intended to be a comprehensive biographical account of these figures, any jazz fan wishing to increase his knowledge about these individuals would benefit from reading Feather's short book. Throughout the chapters Feather presents a series of lively anecdotes and stories told of recording sessions and concert appearances.

Of particular interest to this reviewer was the piece on famed concert promoter Norman Granz, a person who had only been a name on an album cover until I read the fascinating account of his very active life in the world of jazz.

Recommended for any jazz fan wishing learn more about any of the figures listed above. Feather himself cautions his readers that some of the material on Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie is taken from his 1949 book, originally titled Inside Bebop.
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Matthias Wallace
5.0 out of 5 stars From my love of all things Jazz to my eyes...thank you, Leonard Feather!
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2012
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If you call yourself a jazz fanatic, well, you may be lonely :0
Even if you are, grab this book to stem the tide away...
it will not disappoint.
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Dave in Painted Post
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and Compact
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2013
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An interesting collection of stories. Most of the material is already available in numerous places however I bought it mostly for the section on Don Ellis for whom there is not a lot of bibliographical information.
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Aubrey M Perry
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
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michael c cowie
5.0 out of 5 stars Good one for advanced or beginning jazz history buff
Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2016
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I've read pretty much ALL of the jazz biographies. Nice to read this book direct from someone who was deeply on the scene back then. If u are just getting into the personalities of the musicians that made the music happen this is also a great opener.
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