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Jazz
Is
Nat
Hentoff
Limelight Editions, 1991 (first published in 1976)
Paperback. 288pp. b&w illustrations
£14.50
Nat
Hentoff writes :- "What I wanted to do was tell something of who
these musicians were and are - the lives that became their music. I wanted
to remove the barriers to enjoyment of the music that some people seem
to have when they think about jazz, before they really hear it. I mean
their sense that the music is too "difficult" or "complex"
for a non-musician. I had heard this for years, and my usual response
was: "Just listen. Just listen to the feeling. Listen to the stories
each of them is telling, the stories about their lives."
"Then I figured
that if I could write a book about some of those lives, some of those
powerful emotions, readers would see that they don't have to know anything
about chords or time signatures to feel Billie Holiday or Charles Mingus
speaking directly to them of the memories and desires that link us all."
Musicians profiled
include Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Gerry
Mulligan, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane,
Cecil Taylot and Gato Barbieri.
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