The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight
is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and
transformed it. In the twenty-one conversations contained in this
engaging and highly accessible book, we hear from the musicians
themselves, in their own words, direct and unfiltered. Peter Zimmerman’s
interviewing technique is straightforward. He turns on a recording
device, poses questions, and allows his subjects to improvise, similar
to the way the musicians do at concerts and in recording sessions.
Topics range from their early days, their struggles and victories, to
the impact the music has had on their own lives. The interviews have
been carefully edited for sense and clarity, without changing any of the
musicians’ actual words.
Peter Zimmerman tirelessly sought
virtuosi whose lives span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The
reader is rewarded with an intimate look into the past century’s
extraordinary period of creative productivity. The oldest two interview
subjects were born in 1920 and all are professional musicians who worked
in jazz for at least five decades, with a few enjoying careers as long
as seventy-five years. These voices reflect some seventeen hundred years
of accumulated experience yielding a chronicle of incredible depth and
scope.
The focus on musicians who are now emeritus figures is
deliberate. Some of them are now in their nineties; six have passed
since 2012, when Zimmerman began researching The Jazz Masters.
Five of them have already received the NEA’s prestigious Jazz Masters
award: Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Yusef Lateef, Jimmy Owens, and most
recently, Dick Hyman. More undoubtedly will one day, and the balance are
likewise of compelling interest. Artists such as David Amram, Charles
Davis, Clifford Jordan, Valery Ponomarev, and Sandy Stewart, to name a
few, open their hearts and memories and reveal who they are as people.
This
book is a labor of love celebrating the vibrant style of music that
Dizzy Gillespie once described as “our native art form.” Zimmerman’s
deeply knowledgeable, unabashed passion for jazz brings out the best in
the musicians. Filled with personal recollections and detailed accounts
of their careers and everyday lives, this highly readable, lively work
succeeds in capturing their stories for present and future generations.
An important addition to the literature of music, The Jazz Masters goes a long way toward “setting the record straight.”
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¡Genial, cuánto te agradezco esta subida! Por cierto, si tuvieras algun libro (o varios, aún mejor) sobre/de/con los STRAY CATS, me harías la mujer más feliz del mundo. Los adoro. Saludos de una menorquina y muchas gracias por tu dedicación a este maravilloso blog.
ReplyDeleteHola Menorquina! Gracias por tus comentarios de apoyo, hay una biografía de la banda pero no la tengo disponible, pero hay un par de libros que seguramente te interesarán
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Espero sean de tu agrado, saludos.
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