by Martin Williams (Author)
Martin Williams is recognized as one of the most significant jazz critics of recent times. This third collection of record notes, interviews, portraits, and reviews recalls the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie Dial Record sessions, Langston Hughes reading poetry to the sound of jazz, and Thelonius Monk recording for the Library of Congress. In addition, there are profiles of such legendary performers as Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller, and lively essays on the importance of jazz history and a jazz-view of The Beatles.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 30 Sep 1993
ISBN 10: 0195083490
ISBN 13: 9780195083491