Young Man with a Horn
$41.96
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2012
Summary
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren’t enough to make it through a life.
Dorothy Baker’s Young Man with a Ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590175774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590175778 |
| Author: | Dorothy Baker, Gary Giddins |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 129mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics Review
” Young Man with a Horn is a great book, beautifully conceived and masterfully written. There is little else that can be said in praise of any book.” New York Amsterdam News
‘pulsing with the life of the jazz solos that tumble from Rick’s trumpet, as well as the vibrancy and talent of his black musician friends. A pitch-perfect evocation of the music that defined an age.’ Irish Times ‘these marvellous books are witty and assured. Her tone is dark and jaunty, the writing off-handedly smart. London Review of Books
About The Author
Dorothy Baker
Dorothy Baker (1907-1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA , she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker. The couple moved back to California, and Baker completed an MA in French, later teaching at a private school. After having a few short stories published, she turned to writing full time. In 1938, she published Young Man with a Horn, which was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942 and, the next year, published Trio, a novel whose frank portrayal of a lesbian relationship proved too scandalous for the times; Baker and her husband adapted the novel as a play in 1944, but it was quickly shut down because of protests. Her final novel, Cassandra at the Wedding, examined the relationship between two exceptionally close sisters. Baker died in 1968 of cancer.
Gary Giddins was the jazz critic for The Village Voice, where his column “Weather Bird” ran for thirty years, and is presently director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has contributed articles about music and movies to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Esquire, The New York Sun, and Vanity Fair, among others. He has written twelve books, including Visions of Jazz, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998, and Bing Crosby- A Pocketful of Dreams. His most recent book is Warning Shadows- Home Alone with Classic Cinema.
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