Description
Valerie Wilmer's 1970 classic, Jazz People, has long been considered one of the three or four finest books ever written on jazz. Featuring extensive interviews with fourteen jazz geniuses, including Art Farmer, Cecil Taylor, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Big Joe Turner, and Archie Shepp, Wilmer captures the essential qualities of each artist in her interviews, providing deeply moving portraits--in words and in photographs--of the often troubling lives of the musicians who changed the shape of jazz in the fifties and sixties.
Author: Valerie Wilmer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1991
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.38w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780306804342
ISBN10: 0306804344
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz
- Music | History & Criticism | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
Author: Valerie Wilmer
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1991
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.38w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780306804342
ISBN10: 0306804344
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz
- Music | History & Criticism | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
About the Author
Valerie Wilmer is one of England's leading jazz commentators. Her books include The Face of Black Music, As Serious As Your Life, and Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This.