EKE BBB Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 From Scarecrow Press website: This is a series of 30 conversations with jazz musicians who all came to prominence in the 1950's. London-based musician and journalist Gordon Jack's method is to let the musicians tell their own stories with minimum intervention, in the manner of Ira Gitler's classic Swing to Bop. Famous or obscure, they each have a story to tell, and Jack captures the style and tone of his interviewees in this oral retrospective of what may have been jazz's last golden age. The musicians are: Gene Allen, Mose Allison, Dave Bailey, Chuck Berghofer, Eddie Bert, Bob Brookmeyer, Pete Christlieb, Bill Crow, Joe Dodge, Bob Enevoldsen, Don Ferrara, Herb Geller, Corky Hale, Peter Ind, Frank Isola, Lee Konitz, Stan Levey, Jack Montrose, Gerry Mulligan, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (with Larry Bunker, Chico Hamlton, Carson Smith, Bob Whitlock), Lennie Niehaus, Jack Nimitz, Hod O'Brien, Bill Perkins, Bud Shank, Phil Urso, and Phil Woods. Jack's introductions and notes unobtrusively sketch out the life and achievements of each musician, and there are photographs of each one, many of them taken by Jack himself. About The Author Gordon Jack is a freelance writer and has been record reviewer for Jazz Journal International for the past ten years. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 What is strange about the list of interview subjects? Quote
EKE BBB Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Posted October 19, 2004 What is strange about the list of interview subjects? In my ignorance, I don´t know many of them, but... ??? Quote
brownie Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 (edited) With two exceptions, they're non-Blacks. Well, we all know jazz is a white man's music! Edited October 19, 2004 by brownie Quote
EKE BBB Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Posted October 19, 2004 Thanks, brownie. Back to the "racism in jazz" topic? Quote
EKE BBB Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Posted October 19, 2004 ...Well, we all know jazz is a white man's music! Yes, jazz was even created by a white man´s band (ODJB) Quote
couw Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 What is strange about the list of interview subjects? Hamilton is miss-spelled Hamlton Quote
JSngry Posted October 19, 2004 Report Posted October 19, 2004 Pete Christlieb came to prominence in the 50s? Quote
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