{"product_id":"treat-it-gentle-9780306800863","title":"Treat It Gentle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis autobiography was taken down in interviews with John Ciardi and Joan Reid  and put into book form by Desmond Flower. In it  Bechet reacalls his life in music  highlighting his narrative with tales of Sunday afternoon \"bucking contests\" between black and Creole \"musicianers\"  his deportation from London  and the gunfight that put him in jail in Paris. Unlike most jazz musicians  whose musical lives often end at 40  Bechet remained musically active into his 60s  adapting his style to each successive peak of jazz history  and reaching his peak in the New Orleans Revival of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was a keen observer of the jazz scene and his memoirs feature numerous profiles of the men and women who helped jazz grow and develop: Buddy Bolden  Bessie Smith  Manuel Perez  Clarence Williams  \"Duke\" Ellington and other jazz personalities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67956559642677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0306800861","price":61.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780306800863.jpg?v=1794461342","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/treat-it-gentle-9780306800863","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}