"Nat Hentoff may very well be the foremost jazz historian in the world because he was there to witness firsthand the music's evolution from big band and swing to fusion and bossa nova; and to dive into the souls of the men and women who created it from Ellington, Basie, Miles, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, among many others. "At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene" is an invaluable archive of not only the musical influence of America's only indigenous music on the world, but its enormous ...
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"Nat Hentoff may very well be the foremost jazz historian in the world because he was there to witness firsthand the music's evolution from big band and swing to fusion and bossa nova; and to dive into the souls of the men and women who created it from Ellington, Basie, Miles, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, among many others. "At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene" is an invaluable archive of not only the musical influence of America's only indigenous music on the world, but its enormous impact as an engine for social change as well. It is a book that should be read by every young musician, music fan, and educator in America."--Quincy Jones "The very best witnesses in the worlds of the law, aesthetic evaluation, social contexts of imposing significance, and artistic public performance are those who accurately understand what they have seen or what they are seeing. Nat Hentoff has been and continues to be a star witness in every one of those arenas. One of the greatest contributions of his jazz writing is that he has never felt the need to condescend to black people or to let the dictates of sociology diminish the universal significance of what they do when they do it well. Nat knows that so many jazz musicians have done what they do superbly, quite often expressing themselves beyond the narrows of color. As sensitive to the Americana of jazz as he is to its transcendent revelations about the sound of the human heart, Nat Hentoff is part of our American luck."--Stanley Crouch ""At the Jazz Band Ball" is full of nuggets from Nat's rich lode of wit and wisdom, gleaned in a lifetime of fellowship with jazz and its makers."--Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University; author of "Living With Jazz: A Reader"
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