In this week's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I call for shorter, better biographies. The immediate occasion is the publication of Con Chapman's Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges, a biography of Duke Ellington's great alto saxophone soloist, which is 227 pages long and contains not a single wasted word: As I […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AM on September 5, 2019