{"product_id":"reading-jazz-isbn-9780679781110","title":"Reading Jazz","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . .  Jazz aficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo 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 \u003cb\u003eReading Jazz\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The ideal gift for jazzniks and boppers everywhere. . . . It gathers the best and most varied jazz writing of more than a century.\"--\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cb\u003ePART 1: AUTOBIOGRAPHY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJelly Roll Morton\u003cbr\u003eSidney Bechet\u003cbr\u003eLouis Armstrong\u003cbr\u003eWillie \"The Lion\" Smith\u003cbr\u003eDuke Ellington\u003cbr\u003eSonny Greer\u003cbr\u003eLeora Henderson\u003cbr\u003eArt Hodes\u003cbr\u003eBuck Clayton\u003cbr\u003eHoagy Carmichael\u003cbr\u003eEddie Condon\u003cbr\u003eMary Lou Williams\u003cbr\u003eCab Calloway\u003cbr\u003eLionel Hampton\u003cbr\u003eJohn Hammond\u003cbr\u003eCount Basie\u003cbr\u003eBillie Holiday\u003cbr\u003eMezz Mezzrow\u003cbr\u003eArtie Shaw\u003cbr\u003eCharlie Barnet\u003cbr\u003eMax Gordon\u003cbr\u003eAnita O'Day\u003cbr\u003eMilt Hinton\u003cbr\u003eArt Blakey\u003cbr\u003eMilt Gabler\u003cbr\u003eMiles Davis\u003cbr\u003eWillie Ruff\u003cbr\u003eArt Pepper\u003cbr\u003eCharles Mingus\u003cbr\u003eHamton Hawes\u003cbr\u003ePaul Desmond\u003cbr\u003eCecil Taylor\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Braxton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 2: REPORTAGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing Oliver: A Very Personal Memoir by Edmond Souchon, M.D.\u003cbr\u003eA Music of the Streets by Fredrick Turner\u003cbr\u003eThe Blues of Jimmy by Vincent McHugh\u003cbr\u003eJack Teagarden by Charles Edward Smith\u003cbr\u003eEven His Feet Look Sad by Whitney Balliett\u003cbr\u003eThe Cutting Sessions by Rex Stewart\u003cbr\u003eThomas “Fats” Waller by John S. Wilson\u003cbr\u003eSunshine Always Opens Out by Whitney Balliett\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet: Bill Evans by Gene Lees\u003cbr\u003eBlack Like Him by Francis Davis\u003cbr\u003eThe House in the Heart by Bobby Scott\u003cbr\u003eThe Big Bands by George T. Simon\u003cbr\u003e Homage to Bunny by George Frazier\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit of Jazz by Otis Ferguson\u003cbr\u003eThe Mirror of Swing by Gary Giddins\u003cbr\u003eJimmie Lunceford by Ralph J. Gleason\u003cbr\u003eTwo Rounds of the Battling Dorseys by Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey\u003cbr\u003eJazz Orchestra in Residence, 1971 by Carol Easton\u003cbr\u003eFlying Home by Rudi Blesh\u003cbr\u003eThe Fabulous Gypsy by Gilbert S. McKean\u003cbr\u003eMinton’s by Ralph Ellison\u003cbr\u003eMinton’s Playhouse by Dizzy Gillespie\u003cbr\u003eAt the Hi-De-Ho by Hampton Hawes\u003cbr\u003eBird by Miles Davis\u003cbr\u003e Waiting for Dizzy by Gene Lees\u003cbr\u003eAn Evening with Monk by Dan Morgenstern\u003cbr\u003eTheloious and Me by Orrin Keepnews\u003cbr\u003eJohn Coltrane by Nat Hentoff\u003cbr\u003eBessie Smith: Poet by Murray Kempton\u003cbr\u003eMahalia Jackson by George T. Simon\u003cbr\u003eLady Day Has Her Say by Billie Holiday\u003cbr\u003eThe Untold Story of  the International Sweethearts fo Rhythm by Marian McPartland\u003cbr\u003eA Starr is Reborn by Gary Giddins\u003cbr\u003eMoonbeam Moscowitz: Sylvia Syms by Whitney Balliet\u003cbr\u003eThe Lindy by Marshall and Jean Stearns\u003cbr\u003eA Night at the Five Spot by Martin Williams\u003cbr\u003eYou Dig It, Sir by Lillian Ross\u003cbr\u003eJohnny Green by Fred Hall\u003cbr\u003eJazz in America by Jean-Paul Sartre\u003cbr\u003eDon’t Shoot—We’re Americans! by Steve Voce\u003cbr\u003eGoffin,\u003ci\u003e Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Moldy Figs by Leonard Feather\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 3: CRITICISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBechet and Jazz Visit Europe, 1919 by Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet\u003cbr\u003eHarpsichords and Jazz Trumpets by Roger Pryor Dodge\u003cbr\u003eConclusions by Winthrop Sargeant\u003cbr\u003eHas Jazz Influenced the Symphony? by Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein\u003cbr\u003eNo Jazz is an Island by William Grossman\u003cbr\u003eThe Unreal Jazz by Hugues Panassié\u003cbr\u003eAll What Jazz? by Philip Larkin\u003cbr\u003eThe Musical Achievement by Eric Hobsbawm\u003cbr\u003eKing Oliver by Larry Gushee\u003cbr\u003eBix Beiderbecke by Benny Green\u003cbr\u003eJames P. Johnson by Max Harrison\u003cbr\u003eColeman Hawkins by Dan Morgenstern\u003cbr\u003eNot for the Left Hand Alone by Martin Williams\u003cbr\u003eTime and the Tenor by Graham Colombé\u003cbr\u003eBop by LeRoi Jones\u003cbr\u003eOn Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz by Ralph Ellison\u003cbr\u003eWhy Did Ellington “Remake” His Masterpiece? by André Hodeir\u003cbr\u003eOn the Corner: The Sellout of Miles Davis by Stanley Crouch\u003cbr\u003eSpace Is the Place by Gene Santoro\u003cbr\u003eEasy to Love by Dudley Moore\u003cbr\u003eBessie Smith by Humphrey Lyttelton\u003cbr\u003eBillie Holiday by Benny Green\u003cbr\u003eCult of the White Goddess by Will Friedwald\u003cbr\u003eElla Fitzgerald by Henry Pleasants\u003cbr\u003eThe Divine Sarah by Gunther Schuller\u003cbr\u003eThe Blues as Dance Music by Albert Murray\u003cbr\u003eLocal Jazz by James Lincoln Collier\u003cbr\u003eFifty Years of “Body and Soul” by Gary Giddins\u003cbr\u003eEverycat and Birdland Mon Amor by Francis Davis\u003cbr\u003eBird Land by Stanley Crouch\u003cbr\u003eLouis Armstrong: an American Genius by Dan Morgenstern\u003cbr\u003eA Bad Idea, Poorly Executed...by Orrin Keepnews\u003cb\u003eRobert Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e is the former Editor-in-Chief of Alfred A. 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