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Steven C. Bowie curates and hosts the Duke Ellington-themed podcast Ellington Reflections. He has presented papers on Cootie Williams and Kenny Burrell for conferences held by the Duke Ellington Society of Sweden and written articles for DownBeat and Jazz Improv magazines.
Among the eight hundred musicians who played in Duke Ellington's orchestra, Cootie Williams left one of the most enduring legacies. Few trumpeters have combined lyricism, power, and dramatic inflection as Williams did. Steven C. Bowie delivers the meticulously researched and compelling biography that fans of Ellington, trumpet, and jazz have long awaited.--John Edward Hasse, curator emeritus of American music at the Smithsonian Institution Concerto for Cootie is a long-overdue biography of one of the great artists in the history of jazz, trumpeter and bandleader Cootie Williams. Author Steven C. Bowie has expended a seemingly herculean effort to present and document Williams's life and artistry, deftly setting it within a larger jazz context, as well as placing Williams within his time. The amount of research over fourteen years is staggering, thorough, and prodigious. It is doubtful Bowie missed any reference or account of Williams ever given, in the US and abroad, and presents it in an accessible, clear, sympathetic, and very compelling style. As such, Bowie offers a volume not just on an individual artist, but also on an art form, a people, and a nation.--Steven L. Isoardi, author of The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
