Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond by Doug Ramsey
2005 | ISBN: 0961726679 | 372 pages | EPUB | 8,35 MB
2005 | ISBN: 0961726679 | 372 pages | EPUB | 8,35 MB
"… attractive combination of affection and candor… A serious, thoughtful book, as lucidly written as a first-class literary biography…" – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
"A major piece of jazz scholarship, the book cuts no corners." – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
"Every jazz musician should be lucky enough to get a biography as thoroughly researched and luxuriously produced." – Paul deBarros, Seattle Times
"Rarely in the annals of jazz biography has a subject's career been documented so thoroughly… a monumental work." – Downbeat Magazine, July, 2005
…an invaluable addition to jazz literature. I knew Paul Desmond, but I found so much more I did not know. – Nat Hentoff, noted critic and jazz writer
The detail of the research is astonishing. The writing is exquisite. I've never seen a biography like it. – Gene Lees, Editor of "The Jazz Letter"
This is the finest biography we've had of an important jazz figure. – Dan Morgenstern (Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies)