American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz
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When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians first appeared in the fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in The Los Angeles Times, said "no other writer now living can write with comparable grace and equal enthusiasm about everyone from Jack Teagarden and Art Tatum to Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman." And Bruce Cook in The New Leader called the book "the quintessential Whitney Balliett, the cream of the cream,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195095383
ISBN13:9780195095388
Release Date:November 1996
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:528 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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Whitney Balliett's elegant solos.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
If Whitnet Balliett were a musician, he'd probably be someone like Teddy Wilson, whose sometimes spare but dancing lines were always distinct, no matter the context. Balliett's musings on the more important jazz musicians, published originally in The New Yorker, are models of criticism that never betray his love and admiration for the music. It is unlikely that anyone will ever write as well as he has about America's most important contribution to the arts.
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