The McJazz Manuscripts - A Collection of the Writings of Sandy Brown

Informationen zum Autor Sandy Brown's life was tragically short. He was born in 1929 and died in 1975 aged only forty-six. During a television interview at the peak of his career, Sandy Brown was asked to choose between being the world's leading acoustician or its top jazz clarinettist. 'Excuse my arrogance', he replied, 'but do really believe I'm not the latter?' And he wasn't being arrogant. Miles Kington once described his clarinet playing as 'wild yet controlled, acid but generous, blues-drenched but passionate, spiky, ravishing....At his best has no serious rivals in the world'. As an acoustic architect he was in the top rank. He specialized in broadcasting and sound-recording studios and in the late 1960s and early 1970s was responsible for the architectural and acoustic design of many of London's studios, including those for the Beatles, Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. Klappentext Includes a section that provides from the inside an account of the unique combination of temperament and ability! at once composer and executant! which makes a jazz musician. Zusammenfassung Includes a section that provides from the inside an account of the unique combination of temperament and ability, at once composer and executant, which makes a jazz musician.

Product details

• Authors: Sandy Brown, Brown Sandy
• Assisted by: Sand Brown (Editor), Sandy Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780571245727
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24572-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Music; Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Popular Music, Diaries, letters and journals