Four jazz lives
"In 1966, at the height of the avant-garde and the year of the first edition, the subjects of Spellman's interviews for the book - Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Nichols, and Jackie McLean - were considered too subtle, complex, or difficult, certainly far from the comfortable melodies of more mainstream artists. Nearly forty years later, in the new edition, Spellman notes the capriciousness of the jazz industry and writes of darker cultural currents, "the most sinister of which it the gross indifference with which America receives those aspects of Afro-American culture that are not 'entertaining.'"--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2004