Gene Lees Books
Leader of the band
By Gene Lees
Now comes the book that jazz lovers (and Lees's fans) have been waiting for - Leader of the Band, a vivid, full-scale biography of Woody Herman. Asked by Herman in 1986 to write his biography, Gene...
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By Gene Lees
Singers and the Song, which appeared in 1987, is being rereleased in an expanded edition. The new edition retains a number of famous pieces from the original volume, some in expanded form, such as...
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