Sophisticated Giant

Sophisticated Giant
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780520350793
ISBN-13 : 0520350790
Rating : 4/5 (790 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sophisticated Giant by : Maxine Gordon

Download or read book Sophisticated Giant written by Maxine Gordon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. She shows that his image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the three-dimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. --


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