This book was published first in 1985 as Georgia On My Mind.

CONTENTS:
Preface by Humphrey Lyttelton
Introduction
1. All God's Children Got Rhythm
2. Blow That Horn!
3. Sweet Music Man
4. Get Hot
5. Music Maestro Please!
6. The Big Apple
7. If I Only Had Wings
8. Bugle Call Rag
9. Watcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing?
10. The Music Goes Round And Round
11. Farewell Blues
Afterword
Discography

"For A Cockney brought up in an orphanage because his Iatlian-rooted father died early, Nat Gonella had a remarkable feeling for American jazz, a quality that lifted him from the ranks of thirties dance band players - a fascinating book" - PETER DACRE, Sunday Express, on the first edition of this book

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