Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music

by Gene Santoro

Book Overview

What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes.
As legendary bebop rebel Charlie Parker once put it, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Unwinding that Zen-like statement, Santoro traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195154819
• ISBN13: 9780195154818
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.6"