Playing the Changes

Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs

Dan Morgenstern author Milt Hinton author David G Berger author Holly Maxson author

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press

Published:30th Jan '08

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Playing the Changes cover

Legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (1910-2000) tells his compelling life story and illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs, exquisitely reproduced in this collectors' edition. Hinton's stories - witnessing a lynching as a child in Mississippi, working for Al Capone, breaking the color line in the recording studio - are equal to his celebrated photographs: capturing life on the road with Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday at her last recording date, and personal and professional views of icons such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, and Barbra Streisand. ""Playing the Changes"" draws from Hinton and Berger's earlier ""Bass Line"", but differs significantly from that 1988 classic. Milt's narrative takes up where the earlier story left off, and more than 140 new photographs augment 115 of his best-known images. It also boasts a CD of Milt telling stories and performing music, as well as a discography and filmography.

ISBN: 9780826515742

Dimensions: 249mm x 282mm x 33mm

Weight: 2070g

384 pages