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Now
available
IN PAPERBACK
from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster:
Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
Excerpts on
The Daily Beast
and
Vanity
Fair.com
And from Verve/Hip-o Select:
Lena Horne Sings: The M-G-M
Singles
-- the first CD release of Lena's rare M-G-M singles of the
late '40s, annotated and co-produced by James Gavin
Read Ken Franckling's
JazzTimes review
of the touring Lena Horne tribute starring Rebecca Parris
and Paula West and narrated by James Gavin ... and a
lengthy
one-to-one
with Lee Mergner, editor of
JazzTimes
According
to LIZ SMITH's
review
of
Stormy Weather:
"I wish I could do justice to this book. I cannot. It is
impossible to convey its power ... Magnificent, gripping,
marvelously written."
See also: Liz in
Variety,
The New York Times Book
Review, O, the Oprah
Magazine,
Los Angeles
Times,
San Francisco
Chronicle,
The New
Yorker,
Huffington
Post,
USA Today,
Cindy Adams (New
York Post),
New York
Newsday,
Time Out New
York,
JazzTimes (Christopher
Loudon), Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette,
Boston
Globe,
Vogue.com,
Playbill.com,
More.com,
TrendHunter.com,
Bay Area
Reporter,
The Defenders
(Eise
Nefertari Ulen), Library
Journal,
Alan W. Petrucelli's
Entertainment Report,
Gay City News,
Edge (John
Amodeo), All About
Jazz,
St. Petersburg
Times,
Indianapolis
Star,
National
Examiner,
Shreveport
Times, Hilary
Gardner's Ad Alta
Voce,
AOL News
(by Willard
Jenkins), Correio Brasiliense
(Brasilia,
Brazil; by Juan Weik), Jerry Jazz
Musician and
Cabaret Scenes
interviews
with James, and Corey Jarrell's I'll Keep You
Posted.
"Please,
please NEVER tell my life story. Your eyes are too
keen."
(Richard
Rodriguez, author and cultural critic)
All
material herein, save for article photos: © James Gavin,
2010