This is Whitney Balliett's long-awaited "big book." In it are all the jazz profiles he has written for The New Yorker during the past 24 years. These include his famous early portraits of Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams, done when these giants were in full flower; his r[...]
When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians 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[...]
De nitton texter om jazz som här förts samman kring nio musiker har med ett undantag inte tidigare funnits på svenska. Musikerna var alla verksamma under det jazzmusikaliskt så dynamiska 1950-talet. Syftet med antologin är dock inte att lansera just dessa musiker som jazzens allra främsta och [...]