Of Stars And Strings: A Biography Of Sonny Greenwich

by Mark Miller

2021-01-06 21:45:17

I'm not a working musician, the legendary Canadian jazz guitarist Sonny Greenwich once declared. When I decide to play, I play to awake people spiritually. That's the only reason.For that, and for his stirring, distinctively linear style, he was hail... Read more
I'm not a working musician, the legendary Canadian jazz guitarist Sonny Greenwich once declared. When I decide to play, I play to awake people spiritually. That's the only reason.For that, and for his stirring, distinctively linear style, he was hailed in 1970 as the Coltrane of guitar players. In truth, though, Greenwich made music entirely on his own transcendent terms in the course of an uncompromising 50-year career that took him from the smallest of clubs in Toronto and Montreal to the Village Vanguard and Carnegie Hall in New York and back.Of Stars and Strings is an engaging study of a rare Canadian original, and a valuable contribution by Mark Miller to the history of jazz in Canada. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.75 in
Print pages322
PublisherTellwell Talent
Publication date May 13, 2020
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780228827788
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Mark Miller worked for the United States Bowling Congress and its predecessors for more than twenty-four years. He is an authority on bowling past and present, having been called the "Fountain of Bowl...

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