Those Swinging Years: The Autobiography of Charlie Barnet

by Charlie Barnet

Overview

Charlie Barnet (1913-1991) is best known as the popular bandleader whose hits included Cherokee, Pompton Turnpike, and Skyliner. But he was also the first to break the color barrier in a popular dance band, and his black musicians included Clark Terry, Roy Eldridge, and singer Lena Horne; his white musicians included Jack Purvis, Red Norvo, Maynard Ferguson, and Doc Severinson. Barnet not only played jazz, he lived the jazz life: in this book, he writes of his whiskey and marijuana habits, of his whorehouse visits and his half-dozen marriages. Charlie Barnet epitomised the jazz age, and there are few memoirs as lively as Those Swinging Years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306804922
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	08/22/1992
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Charles Daly Barnet(1913-1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.