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The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron
University of Michigan Press
November 2012
On Sale: November 19, 2012
264 pages
ISBN: 0472114131
EAN: 9780472114139
Kindle: B00AZ7WYIE
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Non-Fiction Biography
Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of
Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in
jazz history as one of the most significant composers and
arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged
for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford,
and Dizzy Gillespie and played with Bull Moose Jackson and
Benny Golson. This book sets out to clarify Dameron's place
in the development of jazz in the post–World War II era. It
also attempts to shed light on the tragedy of his retreat
from the center of jazz activity in the 1950s. By tracing
Dameron's career, one finds that until 1958, when he was
incarcerated for drug related offenses, he was at the
forefront of developments in jazz, sometimes anticipating
trends that would not develop fully for several years.
Dameron was also an important influence on several
high-profile musicians, including Miles Davis, Benny Golson,
and Frank Foster. Dameron was a very private man, and while
in some aspects of his life he will probably remain an
enigma, this book manages to give an intimate portrait of
his life at a couple of key stages: the height of his career
in 1949 and the brief but productive period between his
release from prison and his death.
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