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Milt Hintons Life in Stories and Photographs
Vanderbilt University Press
February 2008
On Sale: January 31, 2008
384 pages ISBN: 0826515746 EAN: 9780826515742 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer
Milt Hinton (1910-2000) tells his compelling life story and
illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs,
exquisitely reproduced in this collectors' edition.Hinton's
stories--witnessing a lynching as a child in Mississippi,
working for Al Capone, breaking the color line in the
recording studio--are equal to his celebrated photographs:
capturing life on the road with Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday
at her last recording date, and personal and professional
views of icons such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Aretha
Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, and Barbra Streisand. Playing the
Changes draws from Hinton and Berger's earlier Bass Line,
but differs significantly from that 1988 classic. Milt's
narrative takes up where the earlier story left off, and
more than 140 new photographs augment 115 of his best-known
images. It also boasts a CD of Milt telling stories and
performing music, as well as a discography and filmography.
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