Jazz Talking: Profiles, Interviews, and Other Riffs on Jazz Musicians

by Stanley Dance and Max Jones

Book Overview

Max Jones, known affectionately as "the Boswell of bebop" (Time Out), was famed in England for nearly four decades of insightful, ardent writing on jazz. With this luminous collection of interviews, his work will at last be widely accessible to American readers. Here are the voices of jazz -- Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Billie Holiday, and Mary Lou Williams, to name but a few -- in conversation with Jones, who could turn a casual chat into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306809486
• ISBN13: 9780306809484
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.2"