02117cam a2200361 i 4500 486286391 TxAuBib 20210412120000.0 200910s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020041538 9780252085512 PAP 22.95 0252085515 PAP 22.95 TxAuBib rda Dodgion, Dottie, 1929- Lady swings. The Lady swings [BOOK] : memoirs of a jazz drummer / Dottie Dodgion & Wayne Enstice ; foreword by Carol Sloane. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. xxi, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Music in American life Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Provided by publisher. 20210412. Dodgion, Dottie 1929- Women drummers (Musicians) United States Biography. Drummers (Musicians) United States Biography. Women jazz musicians United States Biography. Jazz musicians United States Biography. Enstice, Wayne, 1943-, author. Sloane, Carol, writer of foreword. Music in American life.