Pre-Owned Stan Levey: Jazz Heavyweight (Hardcover) By Frank R Hayde, Charlie Watts

9781595800862. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 288. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. The first biography ever written of Stan Levey - widely considered to be one of the most influential drummers in the history of modern jazz. Levey played alongside a who's who of twentieth century jazz artists: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and so many more. This colourful volume follows Levey from his childhood in North Philadelphia as the son of a boxing promoter with ties to the mob, through his meteoric rise in the international jazz scene right up to his role in forming the genre, 'West Coast Jazz'.