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Blue Flame

Woody Herman's Life in Music
  • ISBN-13: 9781557530738
  • Publisher: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Robert C. Kriebel
  • Price: AUD $28.99
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  • Local release date: 30/04/1996
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages Weight: 485g
  • Categories: Jazz [AVGJ]
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"All we do is try to create some kind of mood, and hopesomebody digs it" was how the likeable and talented jazzman Woody Herman(1913-87) explained his success. For an incredible fifty years and four months,Herman led a variety of always changing, always young and exciting bands. Andhe did so with style. In Blue Flame,noted regional biographer Robert C. Kriebel devotes his admiring attention todocumenting Herman's life and music. No aspect of Herman's career escapes hisgaze: the musicians - both famous and obscure who played in his bands, the musicthey played, the writers and arrangers of that music, the famous recordings,and the ups and downs of band life from the big-band heyday of the 1930sthrough half a century of changing tastes and changing times. The result ofKriebel's painstaking research is an accurate and detailed picture of thestrenuous and frustrating life of a big-band leader - a life that Herman himselfcharacterized as "a big pain . . . you're victimized before you even start,and it never lets up. There is no life, there is no home." Passion for themusic, music-making, musicians, and fans kept Herman going. Kriebel capturesthese trials and passions for the reader in lively prose that includes achronological listing of recordings, an informal journal of the travels andperformances of Herman's various bands, a roster of musicians, and valuable oldand recent photographs.
Robert C. Kriebel was employed 40 years in a variety of writing, editing, and executive positions at the Lafayette, Indiana Journal and Courier. He continued in retirement to contribute a Sunday column on local history, a column that ran from 1977 to 2011. Kriebel is the author of 5 books on Indiana biography, and one about the life and the work of American jazz bandleader, Woody Herman.
"A remarkable book. Blue Flame is an engrossing journey through the corridors of the Woody Herman era. Mr. Kriebel writes brilliantly." --Al Julian "Robert Kiebel gives the reader an excellent picture of the unique insight of Woody Herman and his musicians as they worked together for over fifty years and incorporated the changing styles of pop and jazz music into Woody's jazz band." --Bill Byrn "There is a great deal of information that has not appeared before under a single cover. There are new and different viewpoints and attitudes that will surely stimulate and encourage new scholarship." --David Baker
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