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Reading Jazz A Gathering Of Autobiography, Reportage And Criticism  Robert
Gottlieb (editor)Bloomsbury Press, 1997 Paperback. 1082pp £20.00
"The contents of Reading Jazz come from many sources, autobiographies, essay collections, old issues of magazines, and previous anthologies, of which many valuable examples have been published, though none on this scale. The literature is enormous, and no one volume, even of these monstrous proportions, can do justice to it. My hope is that readers will be drawn to certain complete texts that could only be excerpted here, and will discover writers whom they can pursue in bookstores and libraries - that this book will serve, in fact, as an advertisement for an entire literature." - from the introduction by ROBERT GOTTLIEB CONTENTS:Part 1 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jelly Roll Morton Sidney Bechet Louis Armstrong Willie 'The Lion' Smith Duke Ellington Sonny Greer Leora Henderson Art Hodes Buck Clayton Hoagy Carmichael Eddie Condon Mary Lou Williams Cab Calloway Lionel Hampton John Hammond Count Basie Billie Holiday Mezz Mezzrow Artie Shaw Charlie Barnet Max Gordon Anita O'Day Milt Hilton Art Blakey Milt Gabler Miles Davis Willie Ruff Art Pepper Charles Mingus Hampton Hawes Paul Desmond Cecil Taylor Anthony Braxton Part 2 - REPORTAGE King Oliver: A Very Personal Memoir - Edmond Souchen A Music of the Streets (Jim Robinson) - Frederick Taylor The Blues for Jimmy Noone - Vincent McHugh Jack Teagarden - Charles Edward Smith Even His Feet Look Sad (Pee Wee Russell) - Whitney Balliett The Cutting Sessions (Kansas City) - Rex Stewart Thomas 'Fats' Waller - John S. Wilson Sunshine Always Opens Out (Earl Hines) - Whitney Balliett The Poet: Bill Evans - Gene Lees Black Like Him (Bobby Short) - Francis Davis The House in the Heart (Lester Young) - Bobby Scott The Big Bands - George T. Simon Homage to Bunny Berigan - George Frazier The Spirit of Jazz - Otis Ferguson The Mirror of Swing (Benny Goodman) - Gary Giddins Jimmie Lunceford - Ralph J. Gleason Two Rounds of the Battling Dorseys - Tommy Dorsey & Jimmy Dorsey Jazz Orchestra in Residence, 1971 (Stan Kenton) - Carol Easton Flying Home (Charlie Christian) - Rudi Blesh The Fabulous Gypsy (Django Reinhardt) - Gilbert S. McKean Minton's Playhouse - Ralph Ellison Minton's Playhouse - Dizzy Gillespie At the Hi-De-Ho - Hampton Hawes Bird (Charlie Parker) - Miles Davis Waiting for Dizzy (Dizzy Gillespie & Art Farmer) - Gene Lees An Evening with Thelonious Monk by Dan Morgenstern Thelonious Monk and Me - Orrin Keepnews John Coltrane - Nat Hentoff Bessie Smith: Poet - Murray Kempton Mahalia Jackson - George T. Simon Lady Day Has Her Say - Billie Holiday The Untold Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm - Marian McPartland A Starr is Reborn (Kay Starr) - Gary Giddins Moonbeam Moscowitz: Sylvia Syms - Whitney Balliett The Lindy - Marshall & Jean Stearns A Night at the Five Spot - Martin Williams You Dig it, Sir? (Newport Jazz Festival) - Lillian Ross Johnny Green - Fred Hall Jazz in America - Jean-Paul Sartre Don't Shoot - We're American! - Steve Voce Goffin, Esquire and the Moldy Figs - Leonard Feather Part 3: CRITICISM Bechet and Jazz Visit Europe - Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet Harpsichords and Jazz Trumpets - Roger Pryor Dodge Conclusions - Winthrop Sargeant Has Jazz influenced the Symphony? - Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein No Jazz Is an Island - William Grossman The Unreal Jazz - Hugues Panassie All What Jazz? - Philip Larkin The Musical Achievement - Eric Hobsbawm King Oliver - Larry Gushee Bix Beiderbecke - Benny Green James P. Johnson - Max Harrison Coleman Hawkins - Dan Morgenstern Not for the Left Hand - Martin Williams Time and the Tenor (Lester Young) - Graham Colombe Bop (bebop) - LeRoi Jones On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz - Ralph Ellison Why Did Ellington 'Remake' His Masterpiece? - Andre Hodeir On the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis - Stanley Crouch Space Is the Place (Sun Ra) - Gene Santoro Easy to Love (Erroll Garner) - Dudley Moore Bessie Smith - Humphrey Lyttelton Billie Holiday - Benny Green Cult of the White Goddess (Mildred Bailey, Connee Boswell, Lee Wiley) - Wilt Friedwald Ella Fitzgerald - Henry Pleasants The Divine Sarah (Vaughan) - Gunther Schuller The Blues as Dance Music - Albert Murray Local Jazz - James Lincoln Collier Fifty Years of Body and Soul - Gary Giddins Everycat and Birdland Mon Amor - Francis Davis Bird Land - Stanley Crouch Louis Armstrong: An American Genius - Dan Morgenstern A Bad Idea, Poorly Executed... (jazz criticism) - Orrin Keepnews |
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Here
is the largest, most comprehensive, and most stimulating collection of
writings on jazz ever published. ROBERT GOTTLIEB, former editor-in-chief
of publishers Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, has assembled
a monumental tapestry of jazz history, giving us an extraordinary overview
of the strength, vitality, and variety of jazz writing.