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Summary:

"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"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

• Part I. The California years. On the road ; Spot ; The Giaimos ; Eleanor Powell's shoes ; The Tiptons ; The eight-day clock ; Polio ; Jail bait ; TD&L ; Mingus ; Apple pie, apple pie, apple pie ; A little help from my friends ; The drummer was always late ; Monty ; Jerry ; 176 steps ; Eugene's lessons ; First time in Vegas ; Followed by myself in the moonlight ; The It Club ; Thunderbird
• Part II. The New York and East Coast years. 14 drummers ; Mount Airy Lodge ; Strollers ; The Village Stompers ; Eddie Condon's ; Pearls to swine ; Park Ridge ; Piano party ; Ruby ; Suburban housewife ; In the middle of the brook ; Harold's Rogue and Jar ; Melba Liston and Company ; Fazee Cakes
• Part III. California redux. The best kept secret in town ; A leader at sixty-five ; Pacific Grove ; Nonagenarian ; Postscript.

Author/Creator:

Dodgion, Dottie, 1929-2021 , author

Contributors:

Enstice, Wayne, 1943- , author

Sloane, Carol , writer of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

The lady swings: memoirs of a jazz drummer [by Dodgion, D.]

Related Series:

Music in American life

Subjects:

Dodgion, Dottie, 1929-2021

Women drummers (Musicians) — United States — Biography

Drummers (Musicians) — United States — Biography

Women jazz musicians — United States — Biography

Jazz musicians — United States — Biography

Women drummers (Musicians)

Drummers (Musicians)

Women jazz musicians

Jazz musicians

United States

Genres:

Autobiographies

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.

Physical Description:

xxi, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration; plate

Call Numbers:

ML419.D634 A3 2021

ISBNs:

9780252085512 (paperback)
0252085515 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020041538

OCLC Numbers:

1142514929