An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams
Val Wilmer is an internationally acclaimed photographer, journalist, author and black music historian who has been documenting African-American music since 1959. In that time she has interviewed and photographed almost every significant figure in post-war jazz, blues and R as a writer and historian, she has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography and the New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz. She lives in London.
This book saved me from giving up. Even though the jazz musicians
Wilmer wrote about were mostly male, their approach to music
making, their passion and their activism resonated with me and
showed me a way to move forward musically
*Viv Albertine*
The best of those books that found evidence of a black revolution
or resurgence in the musical achievements of Ornette Coleman, John
Coltrane, Albert Ayler and others
*Guardian*
A very powerful and proud black book ... it sings the praise-song
of the procreators of the new music and their direct
descendants
*Coda*
An exceptionally illuminating book on jazz now - and on music to
come. Indeed, it's one of the relatively few indispensable books
about America's classical music
*Nat Hentoff*
A fascinating document, full of the energy of political
struggle
*Socialist Review*
A masterpiece of jazz history ... it charts the development of the
new black music, delving deep into the lives, minds and politics of
the people behind it
*BBC Radio 3*
Fascinating snapshot
*The Wire*
A classic ... jam-packed with gems
*BBC Radio 6Music*
A social history of the free jazz movement from its beginnings in
the late 1950s ... as serious, and necessary, as ever
*Village Voice*
One of the foremost chroniclers of African-American musical
culture
*Spectator*
One of the most important and exciting books ever written about
jazz. It's essential
*Stereogum*
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