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Those Swinging Years, Paperback / softback Book

Those Swinging Years Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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 colour 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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