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In Search of Gordon Jenkins
出版Frog Books, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / MusicBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsMusic / Genres & Styles / JazzMusic / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
ISBN15839412669781583941263
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JF6C3MLdcaIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Goodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when, on account of his father's death in 1984, Bruce Jenkins began his research. Paralleling the story of Gordon Jenkins's personal life is a veritable history of popular music, featuring luminaries from Irving Berlin to Billie Holiday. This richly anecdotal biography relates a wealth of heretofore untold stories of his encounters with icons like Sinatra, who was uncharacteristically awestruck by him, and Judy Garland, whom only Jenkins could convince to go onstage when she was crippled with anxiety. A concluding chapter documents Jenkins's slow, difficult death from ALS, leaving readers with an unforgettable image of a legend dying with dignity and unexpected good humor.