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| | Amazon.com: Leader of the Band: The Life of Woody Herman: Books: Gene Lees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Lees (Cats of Any Color), who calls himself "one of the many souls whose lives were reshaped by Woody Herman," writes affectionately here about his friend and mentor, the great clarinetist, saxophonist, singer and band leader who was a major figure in the jazz world from the 1930s to his death in 1987. |
 | | A clarinet prodigy, Herman launched his career in music early, rose to prominence in the swing era, investigated the bop revolution, and kept going long after his style of performance was diagnosed as being in decline. |
 | | Maybe the reason Woody is overlooked a bit historically is because, although he was a gifted musician and leader, he wasn't an arranger and writer in the Fletcher Henderson, Gil Evans, Thad Jones, Duke and Billy Strayhorn tradition. |
| www.amazon.com /Leader-Band-Life-Woody-Herman/dp/019505671X (1518 words) |
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