"Nat Hentoff may very well be the foremost jazz historian in the world
because he was there to witness firsthand the music's evolution from big
band and swing to fusion and bossa nova; and to dive into the souls of
the men and women who created it from Ellington, Basie, Miles, Ray
Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, among many others. At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene
is an invaluable archive of not only the musical influence of America's
only indigenous music on the world, but its enormous impact as an
engine for social change as well. It is a book that should be read by
every young musician, music fan, and educator in America."--Quincy Jones
"The very best witnesses in the worlds of the law, aesthetic
evaluation, social contexts of imposing significance, and artistic
public performance are those who accurately understand what they have
seen or what they are seeing. Nat Hentoff has been and continues to be a
star witness in every one of those arenas. One of the greatest
contributions of his jazz writing is that he has never felt the need to
condescend to black people or to let the dictates of sociology diminish
the universal significance of what they do when they do it well. Nat
knows that so many jazz musicians have done what they do superbly, quite
often expressing themselves beyond the narrows of color. As sensitive
to the Americana of jazz as he is to its transcendent revelations about
the sound of the human heart, Nat Hentoff is part of our American
luck."--Stanley Crouch
"At the Jazz Band Ball is full of
nuggets from Nat's rich lode of wit and wisdom, gleaned in a lifetime
of fellowship with jazz and its makers."--Dan Morgenstern, Director,
Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University; author of Living With Jazz: A Reader
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