Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest and insightful books ever written about jazz. It consists of twenty nine no-holds-barred conversations which drummer Arthur Taylor held with the most influential jazz musicians of the 1960s and 1970s - including Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Don Cherry, Kenny Clarke, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Dizzy Gillespie, Hampton Hawes, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Carmen McRae, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Nina Simone, Randy Weston.

As a black musician himself, Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to speak their minds, these musicians offer startling insights into their music, their lives, and the creative process itself. This expanded edition is supplemented with previously unpublished interviews with Dexter Gordon and Thelonious Monk, a new introduction by the author, and new photographs.

CONTENTS: interviews with Dexter Gordon; Miles Davis; Randy Weston; Omette Coleman; Philly Joe Jones; Don Byas; Ron Carter; Johnny Griffin; Charles Tolliver; Eddie Lockjaw Davis; Erroll Garner; Leon Thomas; Max Roach; Dizzy Gillespie; Cannon McRae; Nina Simone; Tony Williams; Sonny Rollins; Don Cherry; Hampton Hawes; Kenny Clarke; Freddy Hubbard; Richard Davis; Elvin Jones; Kenny Dorham; Art Blakey; Hazel Scott; Betty Carter; Thelonious Monk.

ARTHUR TAYLOR has drummed with Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and dozens of others. He has been called "one of the great drummers to come out of the fertile Harlem bebop scene" (New York Times) and "one of the best bandleaders living or dead" (Village Voice). His band, Taylor's Wailers, has recorded several albums, and is based in New York City.

"Anyone wishing to know what jazz musicians were talking about among themselves at the turn of an angry decade (and are likely talking about still) will have to look here. And what they have to say in these pages is certain to affect the way we listen to jazz and the ways in which we thing (and write) about what we hear." - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

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