WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. geen stemmen. Gary Giddins was the jazz critic for The Village Voice, where his column "Weather Bird" ran for thirty years, and is presently director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This is an almost impossibly perfect book. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Even though I have seen the movie version with Kirk Douglas, I kept picturing a quite young Frank Sinatra as Rick. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. As one reviewer not, Noted 1938 novel about a talented young white jazz musician who grows up in California, befriends several successful, talented young black jazz musicians and in turn becomes a success. Baker's style is amazing, when I read the sentences I feel like I'm eating them. Full of zing, it practically comes with a gin fizz, a dingy stage and a band, it makes you feel and hear every single note of the music and the telling of it feels like you're reading scripture.
Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? CLP$13.881, CLP$6.610 "Young Man with a Horn is a great book, beautifully conceived and masterfully written. Please try again.
The novel was made into a 1950 movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Doris Day. Although the narratives suffers from 1930s racist language and attitudes.
After graduating from UCLA , she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker.
Cassandra at the wedding remains my favourite of the two – but Young Man with a Horn is a brilliantly assured novel, wonderfully atmospheric, it simply oozes jazz. Something went wrong. "Young Man with a Horn is a great book, beautifully conceived and masterfully written. x 15mm BoekMeter.nl | It also alludes to drugs and homosexuality in a straightforward, matter-of-fact way that was revolutionary for the time. Written in 1938, by Dorothy Baker inspired by the life of Bix Beiderbecke, the jazz cornetist, the story is gripping from start to finish. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Something went wrong. Her final novel, Cassandra at the Wedding (also published as an NYRB Classic), examined the relationship between two exceptionally close sisters, whom Howard Baker asserted were based on both Baker herself and the couple's two daughters. In this fictional biography of a brilliant young musician, modeled on the tragic jazz pianist/trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, one of the secondary characters refers to the protagonist, Rick Martin, as a marked man. Dorothy Baker (1907–1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA, she traveled in France, where she began a novel and, in 1930, married the poet Howard Baker. After having a few short stories published, she turned to writing full time, despite, she would later claim, being “seriously hampered by an abject admiration for Ernest Hemingway.” In 1938, she published. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Race, sexuality, education, social status are subtly addressed throughout the life and career of the main character, inspired by the legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke.
--New York Amsterdam News "The Young Man with a Horn is the story of a musician, a swing trumpeter … This is a surprisingly smart novel about not just music but race, showing how musicians both blacks and white navigated an awkward, tense social landscape in order to sit back and enjoy the pleasures of making art together.
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