Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now Paperback - 1999
by Robert Gottlieb (Editor)
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In this glorious anthology, the editor combs through 80 years of memoir, reportage, and commentary by jazz musicians, critics and fans to create a tapestry of the music's history.
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- Title Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 1088
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date October 26, 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # Y14I-01197
- ISBN 9780679781110 / 0679781110
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 2 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 5.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Jazz - History and criticism, Jazz musicians
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.650
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From the jacket flap
"Alluring. . . . Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates it has stirred, more vividly than any other jazz anthology to date."--"Chicago Tribune
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 the 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.
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 Leonard Bernstein, 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.
"The ideal gift for jazzniks and boppers everywhere. . . . It gathers the best and most varied jazz writing of more than a century."--"Sunday Times (London)
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Citations
- New York Times, 10/31/1999, Page 40
