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Book SynopsisTerritory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904-97) led one of the best. In
Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s.
Trade Review“This perceptive book is an insightful account, appealing to the aficionado and scholar alike, of the career and musical journey of bandleader Ernie Fields.”—
Todd Wright, Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
“In piecing together her father’s musical journey, Carmen Fields highlights an important untold story, but also paints a fuller picture of the strength that emanated from the much talked about Tulsa, Oklahoma, of twentieth-century America.”—
Wil Haygood, author of
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
