Low Down: Junk, Jazz, And Other Fairy Tales From Childhood

  • Author: A.J. Albany
  • Narrator: Lena Headey
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 4:13:16
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Synopsis

Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones star Lena Headey reads the acclaimed memoir that inspired the film in which she stars. This special movie tie-in edition is now available from Encore for a great value!

One day we’re walking down the street, passing a newsstand, when I stop and pick up a magazine (maybe Life) with Thelonious Monk of the cover. I kiss it, and say, ‘Hi Monk.’ Dad, combusting with pride, picks me up, looks at me with those beautiful gray-green eyes, and says: ‘From now on, you’re not just my baby, you’re my ace-one-boon-white-coon.’ That, he would claim, was the day we forever connected, and became more to each other than everything.

So begins Amy Albany’s life with her father, the legendary though obscure jazz pianist Joe Albany. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, and Dexter Gordon. In red-boothed, booze-drenched Hollywood nightspots, chances were you’d find Albany’s daughter tucked behind the bar, curled on someone’s fur coat, while her father played his set. Teddy bears were for other kids—Amy slept with a ‘78 of Louis Armstrong’s ‘Sugar Blues’, and later with a photograph of the man himself inscribed ‘To little Amy-Joe, always in love with you—Pops’.

Written with gritty honesty, Low Down is Amy Albany’s extended improvisation on growing up, wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of Old Lady Life at all too early an age, Albany guides us through the dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s jazz scene in Hollywood’s underbelly and beyond. What emerges is a raw and poignant portrait of a young girl trying to survive amongst the outcasts and misfits who guided her life.

Chapters

  • LowDown 01 Title

    Duration: 01min
  • LowDown 02 QuotesAndDedications

    Duration: 40s
  • LowDown 03 Foreward

    Duration: 01min
  • LowDown 04 Part1 MelodyMan

    Duration: 01min
  • LowDown 05 SoftDownyDreams

    Duration: 03min
  • LowDown 06 EscapingCamarillo

    Duration: 02min
  • LowDown 07 BelleOfSaltLakeCity

    Duration: 04min
  • LowDown 08 Meeting

    Duration: 03min
  • LowDown 09 AceOneBoonWhiteCoon

    Duration: 01min
  • LowDown 10 DollsAndGreatWingedMen

    Duration: 02min
  • LowDown 11 SomeOtherHalves

    Duration: 02min
  • LowDown 12 Snapshots

    Duration: 01min
  • LowDown 13 SleepingInBars

    Duration: 02min
  • LowDown 14 ThePickledPool

    Duration: 03min
  • LowDown 15 ThreeMotherTales

    Duration: 07min
  • LowDown 16 Part2 Pops

    Duration: 02min
  • LowDown 17 VisitingDay

    Duration: 04min
  • LowDown 18 TheWitchOfWiltonPlace

    Duration: 03min
  • LowDown 19 Koko

    Duration: 02min
  • LowDown 20 MagicGizmo

    Duration: 01min
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