Nat Gonella - A Life in Jazz Hoda Barakat

Nat Gonella - A Life in Jazz Hoda BarakatAn extended and updated edition of Ron Browns biography of Nat Gonella, co written with Digby Fairweather 206 pages plus 8 pages of gloss photos. This book portrays the wonderful years with Billy Cotton, Roy Fox and Lew Stone, the creation of Nats Georgians, and his friendship with the great stars like Gracie Fields, Max Miller, Fats Waller and the legendary Louis Armstrong. Just a bit of a lark is the way that Nat Gonella would have you remember his

If you get the chance to go and see him read

and when he’d gone I climbed the apple tree in our garden

Simon Turner

Banipal 30 opens with tributes from well-known authors to the Iraqi poet

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Poetry from Aldeburgh

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funny and lyrical in turns

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"An extraordinary period described by an inspired storyteller"