Résultats pour "Jazz" dans Culturel et régional

Once among New York City’s most recognizable faces, Walter Thornton—agent to future film-noir legends and architect of the WWII pin-up phenomenon—vanished from the glamorous world he helped create after a mid-1950s trial destroyed his reputation. A man once synonymous with glamour became a...

Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called "the only jazz recluse" has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist.