Whitney Balliett

New York Voices

Fourteen Portraits

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Profiles of the artists, music makers, and movers and shakers who created New York City's vibrant cultural landscape

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 163mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781578068364
• ISBN-10: 1578068363
• Artikelnr.: 21269504

Autorenporträt

Whitney Balliett (1926-2007) wrote for the New Yorker for fifty years and was its jazz critic for over forty years. He is author of many books, including American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz, American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song, and Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954-2001. He received an award for excellence in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three of his books on jazz have won awards from ASCAP.