Which jazz book are you reading right now?

[Big Beat Steve]

46 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Interesting ... and apparently totally under everyone's radar with all that "Listening" talk about Prestige during recent months ...  But ouch ... what a hefty price. 
I'm tempted but am very much on the fence, given how many Prestiges are on my shelves anyway and how many have been shown "for art's sake" in previous books such as "East Coasting" and "Jazzical Moods". 
We'll see ...

 

[sgcim]

Just finished "The Jazz Barn : Music Inn The Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life" by John Gennari,

Had to do with the Lennox School of Jazz, where Third Stream musicians like Gunther Schuller, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell and John Lewis taught for the four years it was open.

It goes for 80 pages before anything relating to jazz is mentioned, just woke history of the Berkshires. 

When he mentions the School of Jazz and the concerts they had there, it begins to get interesting, and there are a lot of pictures of some of the teachers and students there that have never been seen before. 

The author is an English Prof. in VT, who thinks that Dave Brubeck composed "Take Five". The type on the book is so small that I had trouble reading iit.