Preface by Pete King. 5 Four Bars in ... by Benny Green. First Set: Who's earning a living? Second Set: My son, the musician. Third Set: Geraldo's navy. Fourth Set: The joints were jumping. Fifth Set: My chef, the gorilla. Sixth Set: Zoot alors! Seventh Set: So far, Soho good. Eighth Set: Bill and Ben. Ninth Set: Miles gets the brush. Tenth Set: The old routine. Coda: All that Jewish jazz by Spike Milligan.
Co-author Mike Hennessey is a leading jazz writer. He covered the inernational music scene for Billboard magazine for 27 years and has written hundreds of articles, reviews, album notes and biographical features for a wide range of jazz magazines. He is also the author of The Little Giant: The Story of Johnny Griffin (Northway, 2008), an acclaimed biography of drummer Kenny Clarke and Tin Pan Alley, a book about the British music business.
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