Name: Jazz Odyssey. The Global Lives of Booker T. Pittman
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Author: Jason Borge
ISBN: 9781496860729

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Jazz Odyssey. The Global Lives of Booker T. Pittman

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Press of Mississippi

Autor

Jason Borge

Colección

American Made Music Series

Año

2026

N° páginas

277

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9781496860729

Jazz Odyssey. The Global Lives of Booker T. Pittman

Jason Borge (Autor) · University Press of Mississippi · Tapa Blanda

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Booker T. Pittman (1909-1969) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who played with greats like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the 1920s and 1930s. The maternal grandson of Booker T. Washington, Pittman was tremendously talented and ambitious like his famous grandfather. After starring in local jazz scenes as an alto saxophonist and clarinetist in Kansas City, Harlem, and Paris, in the late 1920s and mid-1930s, Pittman boarded a ship to South America and remained there until his death in 1969. In Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, he became a fixture of casinos and nightclubs, a pioneer of the South American musical diaspora, and a formative figure of several jazz scenes. He also struggled mightily with drugs and alcohol, and on more than one occasion disappeared into the Brazilian and Uruguayan backlands. Ultimately, though, he returned to sobriety, stability, and the spotlight, fulfilling his potential in Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. Jazz Odyssey: The Global Lives of Booker T. Pittman combines accessible music analysis with global cultural history, while telling a compelling story of a figure whose life spanned some of the most celebrated—and also some of the most obscure—chapters in jazz history. Based on extensive archival research but written for the general audience, Jazz Odyssey will appeal equally to jazz fans and scholars, as well as readers interested in a fascinating family saga that includes the stories of Pittman's wife Ofélia and stepdaughter Eliana, who is herself a notable singer and actress.