Harlem Jazz Adventures A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969

Harlem Jazz Adventures: A European Baron's Memoir, 1934-1969 is the story of Timme Rosenkrantz's happy stranding in New York City, where he would record jazz artists and bands in his midtown apartment, organize his own jazz band, and run a record shop. Based on the unpublished English translation prepared by Rosenkrantz and his longtime companion Inez Cavanaugh of the original Danish-language edition of the work, editor and jazz musician Fradley Hamilton Garner gives polish and context to this memoir by the James Boswell of Harlem's jazz scene. Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Cecile and Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Eddie Condon, and Erroll Garner all come alive in the pages of this remarkable work.

Timme Rosenkrantz (1911-1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, broadcaster, and entrepreneur. Fradley Hamilton Garner is international editor and a columnist for Jersey Jazz, the monthly journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society. His column "From Far and Wide" appears online at AllAboutJazz.com.