Автор: Gene Lees

Best known for the "dead-ant" theme to the Pink Panther films, Henry Mancini also composed the music to Peter Gunn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, and the Academy Awar …

An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his …

Gene Lees is probably the best jazz essayist in America today, and the book that consolidated his reputation was Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987. Now this classic volume is being rerelea …

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István Bibó (1911–1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, political thinker, prolific essayist, and minister of state for the Hungarian national government during the Hungarian Revolution o …

It was none other than Louis Armstrong who said, "These people who make the restrictions, they don’t know nothing about music. It’s no crime for cats of any color to get together and blow." …