Godfather of the music business : Morris Levy / Richard Carlin.

• Beginnings : from the Bronx to the royal roost -- Lullaby of Birdland : the making of a hipster's paradise -- Jazz entrepreneur : 1949-1957 -- Breaking into the record business: 1955-1957 -- Roulette on the rise, Birdland in decline : 1958-1965 -- Wise guys with a peppermint twist : 1957-1961 -- Doin' the Hanky Panky : 1962-1969 -- Remainders : 1969-1974 -- Why do fools fall in love? 1975-1980 -- Levy's last scam : 1980-1986 -- Trials, tribulations, and last hurrahs : 1986-1990.

• This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical style, bebop. Levy operated one of the first integrated clubs on Broadway and helped build the careers of Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell and most notably aided the reemergence of Count Basie. In 1957, he founded a record label, Roulette Records. Roulette featured many of the significant jazz artists who played Birdland but also scored top pop hits with acts like Buddy Knox, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Joey Dee and the Starliters, and, in the mid-1960s, Tommy James. Stories abound of Levy threatening artists, songwriters, and producers, sometimes just for the sport, other times so he could continue to build his empire. Along the way, Levy attracted "investors" with ties to the Mafia, including Dominic Ciaffone (a.k.a.- 

Ämnesord

Musikproducenter  (sao)

Sound recording executives and producers  -- United States -- Biography (LCSH)

Sound recording executives and producers  (lcsh)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Levy, Morris, 1927-1990

Klassifikation

ML429.L485 (LCC)

781.64092 (DDC)