Reading Jazz(ISBN=9780679781110)
"Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . . Jazzaficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writingon the subject in one place."--"The New York Times Book Review""Alluring. . . . Capture s] much of the breadth of the music, aswell as the passionate debates it has stirred, more vividly thanany other jazz anthology to date."--"Chicago Tribune" No musicalidiom has inspired more fine writing than jazz, and nowhere hasthat writing been presented with greater comprehensiveness andtaste than in this glorious collection. In Reading Jazz, editorRobert Gottlieb combs through eighty years of autobiography,reportage, and criticism by the music's greatest players,commentators, and fans to create what is at once a monumentaltapestry of jazz history and testimony to the elegance, vigor, andvariety of jazz writing. Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling thewhorehouse piano players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett,profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with aneloquently dy
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