The Best Damn Trumpet Player: Memories of the Big Band Era and Beyond

By Richard Grudens

A book about Big Band musical personalities caught backstage, on-stage, at rehearsal, in dressing rooms, in back seats of cars, in band buses, radio stations, night clubs, and local park outdoor... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575790114
• ISBN13: 9781575790114
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Celebrity Profiles Publishing Co.
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

What's wrong with sentimentality?

I liked the Best Damn Trumpet Player. I learned more about the stars of the era than I've ever known. Other books smother you with facts, and who cares. Grudens loves his subjects, the most important players of the era. His is well written, others are about as interesting as telephone directories. He makes the subjects live on the page. He reaches deep into their personality. All his interviews were personal. Those long biographies are stuffed with facts and research and are boring.The fellow from Northeast Kansas complains but doesn't mention any of the "errors". Is he an expert? I understand the book is in the library of Five Towns Music College in Dix Hills, NY and in Boston, in the library of Berklee Music College. That means something to me.