Reading Jazz a Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
- List Price: $32.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 11/01/1999
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No musical idiom has inspired more fine writing than jazz, and nowhere has that writing been presented with greater comprehensiveness and taste than in this glorious collection. In "Reading Jazz," editor Robert Gottlieb combs through eighty years of autobiography, reportage, and criticism by music's greatest players, commentators, and fans to create what is at once a monumental tapestry of jazz history and testimony to the elegance, vigor, and variety of jazz writing.
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Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling the whorehouse piano-players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett, profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with an eloquently dyspeptic jeremiad against bop. Here, too, are the voices of Billie Holiday and Charles Mingus, Albert Murray and Lillian Ross, Stanley Crouch and LeRoi Jones, reminiscing, analyzing, celebrating, and settling scores. For anyone who loves the music -- or the music of great prose -- "Reading Jazz" is indispensable.
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