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Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band
Author(s): Jeannie Gayle Pool (Author), Lily Tomlin (Foreword), Jane Wagner (Foreword)
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication Date: February 28, 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 081086102X
- ISBN-13: 9780810861022
Book Description
A professional tenor saxophonist for more than eighty years, Gilbert inspired several generations of musicians and continued to perform professionally into her nineties. Her last band, “Peggy Gilbert and the Dixie Belles,” played hot Dixieland jazz on national television, at jazz festivals, and in concerts from 1974 until 1998. Their appearances on
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Golden Girls, Ellen, and Simon & Simon, among other programs, made them famous coast-to-coast, even as octogenarians.In
Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band, Jeannie Gayle Pool profiles the fascinating life of this multi-talented saxophone player, arranger, bandleader, and advocate for women instrumental musicians. Based on oral history interviews and Gilbert’s collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia, this book includes many materials not previously available on all-women bands from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. This volume also includes a chronology, biEditorial Reviews
Review
Women’s studies and music collections at the college level need this important reference.,
Midwest Book Review, August 2008Pool’s profile of Peggy Gilbert’s life, as well as the experiences of women musicians in general, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century in Southern California, is an important addition to the literature on American jazz and women jazz musicians. It is also a highly readable and enjoyable work, which I recommend to both public and academic libraries. Pool is perhaps the single most qualified person to write Peggy Gilbert’s biography, given her intimate familiarity with the history of women in music in Southern California and long-standing friendship with Gilbert.,
Music Reference Services Quarterly, Jan-June 2009If male jazz musicians could achieve royal rank, providing us with a Duke and a Count, Peggy Gilbert’s career was clearly a testament to her progression from Princess to Queen Mother. — Larry Gelbart
