Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 
Foreword by Oscar Peterson 
Prologue: “I Made Things Work” 

1 “All I Wanted Was My Freedom” 
2 “A Marvelous Crucible” 
3 Cole Train 
4 “The Opener” 
5 Let Freedom Swing 
6 Norman Granz versus . . . 
7 Mambo Jambo 
8 Enter Ella and Oscar 
9 The Continental 
10 “I Feel Most at Home in the Studio” 
11 Starry Nights 
12 “That Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald” 
13 The Jazz Hurricane 
14 “The Lost Generation” 
15 Duke, Prez, and Billie 
16 Joie de Verve 
17 Across the Sea 
18 “Musicians Don’t Want to Jam” 
19 Picasso on the Beach 
20 “One More Once” 
21 Takin’ It on Out—for Good 
22 “Somewhere There’s Music” 

Epilogue: “My Career, Such As It Is . . .” 
Acknowledgments 
Chronology 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

About the Author

Tad Hershorn is an archivist at the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.

Reviews

"This book is a valuable addition to the jazz literature." -- Norman Vickers The Jazz Society Of Pensacola "[A] diligently researched biography... [Hershorn] meticulously documents the personnel and songs played at many concerts and recording dates." -- David Lander Stereophile "An impressively researched, detailed, and highly readable account of ... one of the most significant non-musicians in jazz." Blue Light