Collected works

Alternate Titles

• Journal of jazz, 1954-2000

Description

"Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, captures the full range and register of the jazz scene, from the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 to recent performances by a rising generation of musicians. Here are definitive portraits of such major figures as Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Martha Raye, Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, Bessie Smith and Earl Hines - a list that barely scratches the surface. Generations of readers have learned to listen to the music with Balliett's graceful guidance. For five decades he has captured the moments when jazz history was being made."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The first Newport Jazz Festival started in many places, and one of them was in front of Local 802 of the A. F. of M., on West Fifty-second Street in New York when twelve musicians, a lady novelist, a jazz promoter, a jazz record executive, and I boarded a Greyhound bus.

Excerpt

The first Newport Jazz Festival started in many places, and one of them was in front of Local 802 of the A. F. of M., on West Fifty-second Street in New York when twelve musicians, a lady novelist, a jazz promoter, a jazz record executive, and I boarded a Greyhound bus.

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Other Editions

• Collected works: a journal of jazz, 1954-2000St. Martin's Press2000-01-01
• Collected worksGranta2001-01-01
• Collected WorksPaperbackSt. Martin's Griffin2002-04-15