The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight features twenty-one
conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of
professional experience, and several as many as seventy-five. In
all, these voices reflect some seventeen hundred years' worth of
paying dues. Appealing to casual fans and jazz aficionados alike,
these interviews have been carefully, but minimally edited by Peter
Zimmerman for sense and clarity, without changing any of the
musicians' actual words. Five of the interviewees-Dick Hyman, Jimmy
Owens, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, and Yusef Lateef-have received
the National Endowment for the Arts' prestigious Jazz Masters
Fellowship, attesting to their importance and ability. While not
official masters, the rest are veteran performers willing to share
their experiences and knowledge. Artists such as David Amram,
Charles Davis, Clifford Jordan, Valery Ponomarev, and Sandy
Stewart, to name a few, open their hearts and memories and reveal
who they are as people. The musicians interviewed for the book
range in age from their early seventies to mid-nineties. Older
musicians started their careers during the segregation of the Jim
Crow era, while the youngest came up during the struggle for civil
rights. All grapple with issues of race, performance, and jazz's
rich legacies. In addition to performing, touring, and recording,
many have composed and arranged, and others have contributed as
teachers, historians, studio musicians, session players, producers,
musicians' advocates, authors, columnists, poets, and artists. The
interviews in The Jazz Masters are invaluable primary material for
scholars and will appeal to musicians inspired by these veterans'
stories and their different approaches to music.
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