Dottie Dodgion

About the Book Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships, she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York.

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Before reading her memoirs, when I thought of Dottie Dodgion, it was of a swing-oriented drummer who occasionally sang. While that description is not off the mark, there is a great deal more to Ms. Dodgion than might have appeared on the surface. Now 92, Dottie Dodgion is quite frank throughout her colorful and consistently fascinating autobiography.