John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography

ISBN: 9780140057058

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les Steiner/Blaek Star: 350.~ction of the Author: 22, 26, 42.PrefaceAlmost everyone closely associated with me in the course ofa long life in music--and in a changing America--has a placein the pages which follow. I hold them all in affection and re-spect, and I have tried to make this evident in the text. I must offer a special salute, however, to several ofmy oldest companions on the journey: Fletcher Henderson,Bill Basie, Benny Goodman, and Teddy Wilson. I have always been grateful to the late Goddard Lieb-erson, the brilliant president of Columbia Records, for hisunfailing friendship and support. He was the conscience ofthe record business and its boldest innovator. My gratitude,as well, to Bob Altshuler, the head of Columbia Records'