World Of Swing
Now available for a new generation of swing enthusiasts, reissued to coincide with the release of "The World of Swing" CD from Columbia/Legacy, this monumental history of big band jazz, documented through interviews with forty leading mu...
World Of Duke Ellington
"The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape."-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest musical legends, longtime friend and jazz historian Stanley Dance recounts the life of the incomparable Duke E...
Ferocious Ambition
Robert Dance's new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and-while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life-focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and as a woman who mastered the studio system with a...
World Of Count Basie
The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and supplest of all the bandleaders, Basie featured some of the great soloists in jazz history while he sat unobtrusively at the piano, keeping tim...
