The View from the Back of the Band: The Life and Music of Mel Lewis (Volume 10) (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)

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Mel Lewis (1929–1990) was once born Melvin Sokoloff to Jewish Russian immigrants in Buffalo, New York. He first picked up his father’s drumsticks on the age of two and at seventeen he was once 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 make stronger any musical situation. At the same time as he made his name with Stan Kenton and Thad Jones, and with his band on the Village Vanguard, it was once the hundreds of recordings that he made as a sideman and his ability to mentor young musicians that in reality defined his career.

Away from the drums, Lewis’s passionate and outspoken personality made him one of jazz music’s greatest characters. It’s frequently through Lewis’s own anecdotes, in addition to many from the musicians who knew him best, that this book traces the career of probably the most world’s greatest drummers. Up to now unpublished interviews, personal memoirs, photos, musical transcriptions, and a selected discography add to this comprehensive biography.
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