Vic Ash has worked with the great popular musicians and entertainers - Fred Astaire, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr, Ray Charles, Liza Minelli, George Shearing, Shirley MacLaine and many others - and for more than twenty years with 'old blue eyes' himself, Frank Sinatra.

As a first choice saxophonist and clarinettist for the orchestras that accompany the stars he has been close to them on stage and off. In this book he tells his fascinating stories of the show business life.

But, above all, Vic's career has been at the centre of modern jazz in Britain. From the days of London's legendary birthplace of bop - the Club Eleven - through to his associations with Tubby Hayes, Victor Feldman, John Dankworth, Ronnie Scott and other jazz stars, he has been a widely respected soloist and bandleader. Today he is as busy as ever with his own group and the BBC Big Band.

CONTENTS:
Preface by Michael Parkinson
Acknowledgments
1. Early Days
2. Not Tap But Bop
3. You're Not Going to Play That Thing
4. Vic Ash and His Sex Maniacs
5. Five Gigs In One Night
6. Some Americans... And Tubby
7. America
8. Britons In Birdland
9. Send the English Cat In
10. Bermuda And American Stars
11. Sinatra
12. Other Americans - Stars and Shows
13. Marriage, Fixing and St. Paul's
14. The BBC Big Band
15. Billy May and Doris Day
16. Getting the Buzz
Chronology; Discography; Index

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