The lady swings : memoirs of a jazz drummer /

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Author / Creator:Dodgion, Dottie, 1929-2021, author.
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
©2021
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 264 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Music in American life
Music in American life.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13457092
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Other authors / contributors:Enstice, Wayne, 1943- author.
Sloane, Carol, writer of foreword.
ISBN:0252052471
9780252052477
9780252043598
9780252085512
0252043596
0252085515
Notes:Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2021).
Summary:"Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships, she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men's club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a "man's instrument" in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s. Vivid and always entertaining, The Lady Swings tells Dottie Dodgion's story with the same verve and straight-ahead honesty that powered her playing."--
Other form:Print version: Dodgion, Dottie, 1929- The lady swings Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. 9780252043598