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James Gavin

Peggy Lee: Too Marvelous for Words

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2026

“Every musician in town wanted that gig... She got whoever she wanted, because she was so good."  --pianist Lou Levy, as quoted by James Gavin in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (Atria Books, 2014) Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee ...

George Michael, A Life

by C. Michael Bailey
July 30, 2022

George Michael: A Life James Gavin 528 Pages ISBN-13: # 978-1419747946 Harry N. Abrams 2022 Music biographer, James Gavin, summed up his approach to picking biography subjects during his discussion* with Jamie Brickouse in Interview magazine: “With all that I write, my antennae vibrate from miles away ...

Rebecca Parris: 1951-2018

by C. Michael Bailey
June 22, 2018

You'll happen my way on some mem'rable day And the month will be May for a while... I was never fortunate enough to have met Rebecca Parris in person; but, I was fortunate enough to live in and be a part of the musical universe that surrounded her. That universe was created ...

Matthew Ruddick: Funny Valentine

by Maurizio Zerbo
September 23, 2014

Funny Valentine Matthew Ruddick Arcana Jazz 978-88-6231-346-9 2014 Sapientemente tradotta da Vincenzo Martorella, questa nuova biografia di Chet Baker muove dall'intento di riconsiderare in chiave meno pruriginosa la figura umana ed artistica del trombettista, scomparso tragicamente ad Amsterdam nel 1988. Avvalendosi di un rilevante corpus di prima (interviste) ...