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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456611103321

Autore

Snitzer Herb

Titolo

Glorious days and nights [[electronic resource] ] : a jazz memoir / / Herb Snitzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2011

ISBN

1-283-24470-5

9786613244703

1-60473-845-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

781.65092

B

Soggetti

Jazz musicians

Jazz

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Beginnings""; ""2 MOP, MOP . . . Bebop""; ""3 My World of Jazz""; ""4 On the Bus with Pops and Duke""; ""5 The Demise of Metronome""; ""6 Europe and Cambridge""; ""7 Conversations""; ""8 Switzerland""; ""Photographs""; ""Afterword: The State of Jazz by Dan Morgenstern""; ""Jazz Glossary""

Sommario/riassunto

A personal account of the fifty-year career of jazz photographer Herb Snitzer, with a special focus on his years in New York City from 1957 to 1964. A photojournalist for Life, Look, and Fortune, Snitzer was the photo editor and later associate editor of the influential jazz magazine Metronome.