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My Life In and Out of Jazz Time
Hal Leonard Corporation
October 2006
On Sale: October 1, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0634073990
EAN: 9780634073991
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Jazz fans get the inside story of New York's legendary club.
At age 83, Lorraine Gordon is a jazz icon who has lived more
than a few lives: downtown bohemian, uptown grande dame,
music business pioneer, wife, lover, mother, and finally -
at a point when most women her age were just settling into
grandmotherhood - owner of the most famous jazz club in the
world, the Village Vanguard. The trajectory of her journey
has been remarkable. The details are a Jackson Pollock-like
swirl of fierce colors shot through with larger-than-life
creative figures: not just jazz figures but luminaries from
every point on the political, social and entertainment
spectrum: from Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Miles Davis and
Thelonious Monk to Lenny Bruce, Norman Mailer and Barbra
Streisand. - The legendary Village Vanguard has been an
international jazz mecca since 1935. According to New York
Magazine, "A musician hasn't truly arrived in the jazz world
until he's played at the 'Carnegie Hall of Cool,' the
Village Vanguard." - There have been over 100 "Live at the
Village Vanguard" recordings by premier artists from John
Coltrane to Wynton Marsalis.
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