Boogie, Pete & the Senator
Canadian Musicians in Jazz : The Eighties
- Publisher
- Nightwood Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1987
- Category
- Jazz
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889711129
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
Biographical essays on Nelson Symonds, Sonny Greenwich, Claude Ranger and eleven other influential Canadian jazz musicians. Essential to the library of every Canadian music buff.
About the author
Mark Miller served as the jazz critic for The Globe and Mail from 1978 to 2005 and, in addition to A Certain Respect for Tradition, has completed six other books since 1982, including Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949 (1997), The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (2001), and Some Hustling This!: Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 (2005) (all Mercury). He has also written for several popular and scholarly publications, notably Coda, Down Beat, the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. His photographs of jazz musicians have been published widely.
