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Music History & Criticism

Some Hustling This!

Taking Jazz to the World — 1914-1929

by (author) Mark Miller

Publisher
The Mercury Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2005
Category
History & Criticism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551281193
    Publish Date
    Nov 2005
    List Price
    $19.95

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Some Hustling This!:Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 is a narrative of first encounters, notable events, and significant figures in the internationalization of jazz. The narrative is framed by Louis Mitchell's career abroad, beginning with his first trip as a drummer with the Southern Symphony Quintette to London in 1914 and concluding with his final attempt as an entrepreneur to operate a nightclub in Paris in 1929. The 15 years of Mitchell's European sojourn encompassed the Jazz Age, which has been dated from around the time of the end of the First World War in November 1918 to the New York stock market crash of October 1929. Some Hustling This! is the story of the young men and women who took jazz in its formative stages to the world? a story of hope, escape, and wanderlust, success, infamy, and tragedy.

About the author

Mark Miller served as the jazz critic for The Globe and Mail from 1978 to 2005 and, in addition to A Certain Respect for Tradition, has completed six other books since 1982, including Such Melodious Racket: The Lost History of Jazz in Canada, 1914-1949 (1997), The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (2001), and Some Hustling This!: Taking Jazz to the World, 1914-1929 (2005) (all Mercury). He has also written for several popular and scholarly publications, notably Coda, Down Beat, the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. His photographs of jazz musicians have been published widely.

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