[TPIN] Jazz Trumpeter Bio Recommendations

[Michael Anderson]

This isn't a trumpet bio, but it is just as good if not better. The
biography of Charlie Parker called: "Bird Lives" by Ross Russell.
Captivating book. The best of this genre I've ever read.

http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Lives-Charlie-Yardbird-Parker/dp/0306806797/ref=p
d_bbs_1/002-1733732-1180805?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185973658&sr=8-1

MA


> From: James Calore <jc1 at startechjournal.com>
> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:12:36 -0400
> To: tpin tpin <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: [TPIN] Jazz Trumpeter Bio Recommendations
> 
> I started reading bios of jazz trumpeters last winter and, man, I'm
> totally hooked! But, it's starting to be slim pickings. I'm sure
> they're a few I've missed.  Recommendations (desperately) appreciated
> (before I start jonesin...)
> 
> These I have:
> 
> Lee Morgan - "Lee Morgan - His Life, Music and Culture"
> Miles - "Miles - The Autobiography"
> Chet Baker - "Deep in a Dream" and "As Though I Had Wings"
> Wynton - "In the Bittersweet Blues of Life" and "Sweet Swing Blues on
> the Road"
> Dizzy - " The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie"
> Hugh Masekela - "Still Grazing"
> Clifford Brown - "The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter"
> Roy Eldridge - "The Little Jazz Giant"
> Bunny Berigan - "Elusive Legend of Jazz"
> Max Kaminsky - "Jazz Band - My Life in Jazz"
> Terence Blanchard - "Contemporary Cat"
> Harry James - "Trumpet Blues - The Life of Harry James"
> Bix Biederbecke - "Bix - the Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend"
> 
> Currently reading:
> Leon Merian - "The Man Behind the Horn"
>