- Taschenbuch: 347 Seiten
- Verlag: Picador; Auflage: Reprint (15. Mai 2007)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312426003
- ISBN-13: 978-0312426002
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 13,7 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 666.435 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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A silver-spoon baby who felt the noblesse oblige and acted on it, John Hammond (1910-87) was, through his mother's family, a Vanderbilt. Fascinated in childhood by the family's black employees' music, he had by his midteens found Harlem, where he heard musicians who became international stars. Ditching Yale for jazz journalism and record production, he launched or boosted Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Charlie Christian and began lifelong agitation for racial justice, starting with schemes to integrate jazz that bore famous fruit in Goodman's small groups with Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton and the Carnegie Hall concert "From Spirituals to Swing." Long Columbia Records and NAACP tenures enabled him to remain a star maker--Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen were later finds--and a social shaker after swing's demise. Attracting readers is done for Prial by the famous names Hammond's story obliges him to drop, and he neither probes Hammond's class-based arrogance and self-absorption nor more than hints at Hammond's personal financial decline. Still, this is gratifying reading for American pop mavens. Ray Olson
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"An elegantly written, substantive, and exciting biography . . . as smooth and beguiling in its flow as one of John Hammond's 'look Ma, no hands' recording sessions."--Los Angeles Times
"An elegant, winning biography."--The Boston Globe
"[Prial] has conducted some solid research, and has fashioned the diverse strands of Mr. Hammond's life into a very readable narrative."--The New York Times
"An engaging study of a man with two obsessions--making music and promoting social reform."--Publishers Weekly
"A fast-moving and very readable biography."--The New York Sun
"An elegant, winning biography."--The Boston Globe
"[Prial] has conducted some solid research, and has fashioned the diverse strands of Mr. Hammond's life into a very readable narrative."--The New York Times
"An engaging study of a man with two obsessions--making music and promoting social reform."--Publishers Weekly
"A fast-moving and very readable biography."--The New York Sun
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interesting and well written
9. November 2006
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My only negative comment is perhaps some repetitiveness in some of the comments in the book. Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed it. I like biographies in general. This is a must read for people interested in the music business. Mr. Hammond was an interesting character and a man who stood up for what he believed in. He loved jazz, and fought for racial equality. It is amazing how many different artists he was instrumental in promoting over the years.
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John Hammond: Behind the Music
18. April 2006
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> John Hammond's discovery and signing of superstars like Bob Dylan, Bruce
> Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughn assure that most rock fans are familiar
> with the image of the tall man, impeccably dressed with a wide grin.
>
> In "The Producer", an enlightening and gripping page turner, you learn that
> Hammond played a leading role changing and developing American music. In
> this book you watch the musical landscape of the 20th century move quickly
> and dramatically. Remarkably, Hammond, a man whose instincts, generosity and
> enthusiasm are without parallel in the music industry was there for nearly
> all of it. The author's ability to move the action as well as exercise his
> generous and in-depth knowledge of jazz, folk blues and rock in an
> entertaining and informative manner is only one part of the "The Producer's"
> achievements.
>
> As importantly, we learn that Hammond's innate stubbornness and privileged
> upbringing gave him an unfaltering conviction that great music would succeed
> in transcending racism and a segregated society. His involvement with the
> burgeoning civil rights movement is written with great detail and
> illustrates how Hammond would put his money, energies and reputation into
> anything he believed strongly in.
>
> Above all, like all good books about music or musicians, "The Producer"
> sends you back to discover or rediscover great American music that was
> Hammond's proudest achievement.
> Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughn assure that most rock fans are familiar
> with the image of the tall man, impeccably dressed with a wide grin.
>
> In "The Producer", an enlightening and gripping page turner, you learn that
> Hammond played a leading role changing and developing American music. In
> this book you watch the musical landscape of the 20th century move quickly
> and dramatically. Remarkably, Hammond, a man whose instincts, generosity and
> enthusiasm are without parallel in the music industry was there for nearly
> all of it. The author's ability to move the action as well as exercise his
> generous and in-depth knowledge of jazz, folk blues and rock in an
> entertaining and informative manner is only one part of the "The Producer's"
> achievements.
>
> As importantly, we learn that Hammond's innate stubbornness and privileged
> upbringing gave him an unfaltering conviction that great music would succeed
> in transcending racism and a segregated society. His involvement with the
> burgeoning civil rights movement is written with great detail and
> illustrates how Hammond would put his money, energies and reputation into
> anything he believed strongly in.
>
> Above all, like all good books about music or musicians, "The Producer"
> sends you back to discover or rediscover great American music that was
> Hammond's proudest achievement.
5 von 5 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
A distant but still interesting account of John Hammond
6. November 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
John Hammond was a key figure in American popular music, bring diverse talents such as Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Ray Vaughn, to widespread audiences. He also helped promote entire categories of music, including jazz, blues, and folk, contributing significantly to the popular revivals of these fields. Duston Prial's biography is insightful, based on careful research in libraries and through interviews. The book is well written, and it will be an important document in maintaining Hammond's well deserved reputation as a cultural icon.
Hammond, however, appears as a somewhat distant character in Prial's account. One never really gets a sense of John Hammond's inner, subjective sense. Prial at times seems more concerned with pointing out where Hammond errored in his own autobiography -- "John Hammond on Record" (written with Irving Townsend and published in 1977) -- such as in the case of the reported causes of singer Bessie Smith's death. Prial fails to consider that Hammond actually may have believed (or internalized after so many retellings) the accounts that attributed her death to racist treatment following a car accident. Instead, Prial tells us, "The whole episode was an unseemly case of Hammond's not allowing the facts to get in the way of his good story."
In some cases it in the book it is not clear why Prial favors one version of events over another. The classic example is his account of Bob Dylan's trying to get out of his Columbia records contract. Readers interested in this incident should compare the richly insightful if brief account given by Hammond in his autobiography with Prial's retelling. These quibbles aside, Prial's book makes for enjoyable reading.
Hammond, however, appears as a somewhat distant character in Prial's account. One never really gets a sense of John Hammond's inner, subjective sense. Prial at times seems more concerned with pointing out where Hammond errored in his own autobiography -- "John Hammond on Record" (written with Irving Townsend and published in 1977) -- such as in the case of the reported causes of singer Bessie Smith's death. Prial fails to consider that Hammond actually may have believed (or internalized after so many retellings) the accounts that attributed her death to racist treatment following a car accident. Instead, Prial tells us, "The whole episode was an unseemly case of Hammond's not allowing the facts to get in the way of his good story."
In some cases it in the book it is not clear why Prial favors one version of events over another. The classic example is his account of Bob Dylan's trying to get out of his Columbia records contract. Readers interested in this incident should compare the richly insightful if brief account given by Hammond in his autobiography with Prial's retelling. These quibbles aside, Prial's book makes for enjoyable reading.
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