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Those Swinging Years - by Charlie Barnet (Paperback)

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  • Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included Cherokee, Pompton Turnpike, and Skyliner.
  • About the Author: Charles Daly Barnet(1913-1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
  • 225 Pages
  • Music, Individual Composer & Musician

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Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included Cherokee, Pompton Turnpike, and Skyliner. But he was also the first to break the color barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge, and singer Lena Horne; his white musicians included Jack Purvis, Red Norvo, Maynard Ferguson, and Doc Severinson. Barnet not only played jazz, he lived the jazz life: in this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages. Charlie Barnet epitomised the jazz age, and there are few memoirs as lively as Those Swinging Years.



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Charles Daly Barnet(1913-1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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