Leader of the Band

Now comes the book that jazz lovers (and Lees's fans) have been waiting for - Leader of the Band, a vivid, full-scale biography of Woody Herman. Asked by Herman in 1986 to write his biography, Gene Lees has spent close to a decade working on it, interviewing many of Herman's childhood friends and lifelong acquaintances as well as numerous musicians.

First sentence: In the glory days of the big bands, little more than the decade between 1935 and 1945, the leaders of these orchestras were public heroes.

Year

1995

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

3

Pages

428

ISBN

9780195115741

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