
Music on my mind : the memoires of an American pianist
Willie Smith
Bok · Engelsk · 1964
Utgitt | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday , 1964
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Omfang | 318 s.
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Opplysninger | Foreword -- Music on my mind -- Mind and soul get together -- The old stamping ground -- The piano starts talking -- Hot towns are calling me -- Big ears in New York City -- I went to the gypsy -- A Lion in forty-nine days -- Interlude One: Harlem stride piano / by George Hoefer -- Low it, and take charge -- Those crazy blues -- Interlude Two: Pre-Prohibition Harlem / by George Hoefer -- A taste of the road -- Chicago, Chicago, that swingin' town -- Interlude Three: Harlem during the twenties / by George Hoefer -- Reduce it to a low gravy -- Payin' the rent with chitterlings -- The Lion roars and breaks down the door -- With my cubs at Pod's & Jerry's -- Silvertop -- Interlude Four: Willie the Lion, pianist / by George Hoefer -- The Lion goes downtown -- Fifty-Second Street beat -- The climate doesn't fit my clothes -- Partying on Park with Fats -- Camp Unity -- On a park bench -- Willie the Lion, cantor -- Cognac and cakes : Willie the Lion, teacher -- Slow down, Lion -- Jupiter in my house -- Those everlasting Saints -- Get me a cab -- Always play the melody.
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