Jazz is a vibrant and a living art, and this volume serves to remind us of that fact through interviews with Art Tatum, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck, along with almost 20 other jazz greats.
Sanford Josephson has written extensively about jazz musicians in a variety of publications ranging from the New York Daily News to American Way magazine.
….Josephson has an ability to capture the essence of his subjects
in the limited space available to him, and does so in a literate
and informative manner.
*Jersey Jazz*
This is a collection of profiles unlike any I have encountered in
that it both updates interviews done three decades ago and presents
interviewees from the perspectives of musical associates or
admirers. . . . I enthusiastically recommend this collection
because of the author's interviewing skills -- he frequently
elicits telling and unfamiliar revelations from his subjects -- and
for the variety of views casting light upon those subjects, 22
luminaries of the art form. Josephson clearly has deep feeling for
the music and its makers and that feeling comes across on every
page.
*Jazz Journalists Association News*
Jazz Notes is more than just a compilation of interviews with jazz
greats. In addition to talks with luminaries like Hoagy Carmichael
and Dave Brubeck, it includes updated conversations with those who
are still living, as well as musicians who played with or were
influenced by them. . . . Throughout the book, Josephson's writing
is personal and direct. The reader gets a real sense of who these
musicians are (or were) as people, along with their challenges and
their triumphs. All of this makes Jazz Notes: Interviews Across the
Generations a great read.
*All About Jazz*
This collection of interviews with famous jazz musicians provides
general audiences with new insights into such issues as the
difficulties African-American musicians encountered while on the
road through the middle of the 20th century, the crossover of jazz
into popular music and the passing of jazz traditions to a new
generation of performers. Josephson is a noted jazz expert and
former editor of the Daily News Record, and he has included
interviews he has conducted over several decades with such
musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Maynard Ferguson and
Art Tatum. The author has also added updates to the original
articles, especially in cases where the interview subject has
passed away.
*Reference & Research Book News*
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