Bunny Berigan: elusive legend of jazz
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Story of the jazz trumpeter famous during the 1930s for his horn playing and his Swing Era band. Dupuis notes Berigan also enjoyed money, women, and alcohol until his untimely death in 1942 at the age of thirty-three. He asserts… Berigan's sound, stamina (playing in public up to seventy hours a week), wide register, and theme song, "I Can't Get Started," secure his place among the legends of jazz. Some strong language. c1993.
Title Details
ISBN
9780807116487
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Copyright Date
1993
Book number
2385518
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Christopher Hurt
Duration
12 hours 49 minutes 13 seconds
Audio producer
Library of Congress, NLS/BPH (New York, NY : American Foundation for the Blind), 1994.