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Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships, she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a “man’s instrument” in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s.
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- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date January 2021
- ISBN/Identifier 9780252085512
- Pages288
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Copyright Year2021
- Illustration25 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
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