Scarecrow Press
Pages: 336
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978-0-8108-7270-7 • eBook • January 2000 • $116.50 • (£90.00)
Vladimir Simosko (M.L.S., Rutgers University) is Music Librarian at the University of Manitoba and former Curator of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of a critically-acclaimed biography of Eric Dolphy (Smithsonian Institution Press) and Serge Chaloff (Scarecrow Press, 1998).
For those select devotees long yearning for a meticulous accounting of the career and discography of swing musician Artie Shaw, the wait is over.....
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Vladimir Simosko has provided the first comprehensive study of the great Artie Shaw...This book provides a wealth of neatly categorized information...the best available guide to the life and music of Artie Shaw.....
— John Harding
...Simosko's book brings us leagues closer to following Shaw's career and peccadilloes than we have ever been...this is indeed a gloriously detailed book.......
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...thorough survey of his musical career.....
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...this is one of the jazz publishing events of the year.....
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• Winner, Winner, 2001 ARSC Best Discography/History Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in the field of Recorded Jazz or Blues