The View from the Back of the Band – The Life and Music of Mel Lewis
The Life and Music of Mel Lewis
Series: North Texas Lives of Musician Series; 10;
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Product details:
- Publisher MP–TAM Texas A&M University
- Date of Publication 30 September 2016
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781574416534
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 228x152x27 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 31 black & white illus 0
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Short description:
Mel Lewis (1929-1990) first picked up his father’s drumsticks at the age of two. At 17 he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band is the first biography of this legendary jazz drummer. For over 50 years, Lewis provided the blueprint for how a drummer could subtly support any musical situation.
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Mel Lewis (1929–1990) was born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father’s drumsticks at the age of two and at seventeen he was a full-time professional musician. The View from the Back of the Band is the first biography of this legendary jazz drummer. For over fifty years, Lewis provided the blueprint for how a drummer could subtly support any musical situation. While he made his name with Stan Kenton and Thad Jones, and with his band at the Village Vanguard, it was the hundreds of recordings that he made as a sideman and his ability to mentor young musicians that truly defined his career.
Away from the drums, Lewis's passionate and outspoken personality made him one of jazz music's greatest characters. It is often through Lewis's own anecdotes, as well as many from the musicians who knew him best, that this book traces the career of one of the world’s greatest drummers. Previously unpublished interviews, personal memoirs, photos, musical transcriptions, and a selected discography add to this comprehensive biography.
