Featured Book: The Man Behind The Horn - A Biography of Leon Merian

Author: Leon Merian with Bill Bridges

Publisher: Independent

Year Published: 2002

Type: Biography

Format / Pages: / 300 pages

Review: The book covers Mr.Merian's career as a Jazz musician and is also a fascinating and incredible insight into the American Jazz music scene from the 1930's through to the year 2000. Being one of America's premier trumpeters he has honed his skills by years of experience with the top bands and greatest singers of this era.

He has performed with the "Who's Who" in the Jazz world, done studio work with ABC, CBS, and NBC Musicals, film scores, shows and clubs internationally. The biography of Leon Merian has over 300 pages and well over 125 pictures. It covers a lot about the big band era and the racial situations and the interracial nature of the musical world.

Personal friends with Judy Garland, Buddy Rich, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Don Ameche, Danny Kaye, Gene Krupa, Pearl Bailey, Jackie Gleason, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and many many more....this story blows the lid off of the Big Band TV, Broadway and Studio scene in the USA in it's golden era.

Lauded by Dizzy Gillespie and Leonard Feather alike, let Leon Merian transport you to a very different time from the America of the new millennium.

"YOU'VE HEARD THE MUSIC. NOW HEAR WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE IT!"

Reviewed by: Roddy Lewis

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