The Best Damn Trumpet Player: Memories of the Big Band Era and Beyond

I liked the Best Damn Trumpet Player. I learned more about the stars of the era than I've ever known. Other books smother you with facts, and who cares. Grudens loves his subjects, the most important players of the era. His is well written, others are about as interesting as telephone directories. He makes the subjects live on the page. He reaches deep into their personality. All his interviews were personal. Those long biographies are stuffed with facts and research and are boring.The fellow from Northeast Kansas complains but doesn't mention any of the "errors". Is he an expert? I understand the book is in the library of Five Towns Music College in Dix Hills, NY and in Boston, in the library of Berklee Music College. That means something to me.