[TPIN] gozzo

[mike magers]

Bob, you've told me about this project before and I am very delighted that it is coming together.  Please put me down for an early copy, as soon as they become available.

Mike

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert H. Strickland <strickla at airmail.net>


Mike,

My book "Goz and Other Greats" will be available at the end of summer 2007. 
I wanted to write it as early as 1968, but I realized, after communicating 
with Gozzo's mother, that there were a lot of bad feelings about his 
decline and death. I waited several years before taking up the project 
again in 1991, with a trip to the Kenton reunion. Over the years since, I 
have interviewed Billy May, Les Brown, Dave Pell, Maynard Ferguson, Ray 
Conniff, Jimmy Rowles, etc., etc., and my book will be more than just a 
chronology or a perfunctory look at his life and training. I "live" Gozzo 
every day and have a visceral reaction to his work that I derive from no 
other. Many folks have expressed the notion of writing a book about Gozzo, 
but for reason that I discovered, such cannot convey the reasons why he 
played the way he did and what he brought to the art without handling the 
story very kindly.

Bob Strickland






 
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