Description
Culled from the DownBeat archives - includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! Features classic photos and magazine covers from DownBeat's vast archives. In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat. This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words.
Product Details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard; 75th edition (November 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1423463846
ISBN-13: 978-1423463849
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.9 inches
Customer Reviews:
By Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) ~amazon.com
The word "jazz" covers a multitude of sins, and this handsome anthology, which spans the years 1935 to 2008, manages to cover most of them, at the rate of a dozen selected interviews a year. So it can be read from cover to cover, or you can browse to your heart's content. There are some surprising juxtapositions; Glenn Miller is followed by Joe "King" Oliver, and John Coltrane by Mahalia Jackson. Some appear twice; Armstrong, Ellington and Goodman, for example, others not at all. You'll find Sinatra and Nat "King" Cole, but neither Crosby nor Astaire. An index would have been welcome, but that is to look a gift horse in the mouth.
By Barbara R. Breger "chicago granny" (Chicago, IL USA) ~amazon.com
This is a wonderful book of interviews of musicians who have contributed to our only native music. This should be in every jazz lover's collection. I highly recommend it.
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