Harlem Jazz Adventures - Timme Rosenkrantz

Hardcover
297 pgs.
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Illustrated

This memoir, 1934-1969, is the story of Timme Rosenkrantz's time in New York City, where he recorded jazz artists and bands in his midtown apartment, organized his own jazz band, and ran a record shop. Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Cecile and Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Eddie Condon, and Erroll Garner all come alive in the pages of this remarkable work, translated by Fradley Hamilton Garner.