Decker, Todd R.

Music makes me Fred Astaire and jazz / [electronic resource] : Todd Decker. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. - xii, 375 p. : ill., music, ports. - Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Astaire among others: "There's a difference and Astaire is it" ; "I am a creator" -- pt. 2. Astaire at the studios: "I play with the very best bands" ; "Tell them to let it swing" ; "Fixing up" tunes -- pt. 3. Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance."


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780520950061 (electronic bk.)




Astaire, Fred.


Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.
Dancers--United States--Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.


Electronic books.

ML420.A896 / D46 2011

781.65092