Between 1972 and 1987, freelance teacher and music journalist
Roland Baggenaes conducted a series of interviews with jazz
musicians for CODA magazine. Upon recently re-discovering the
interviews, he was once again fascinated by the enthusiasm of the
musicians and their profound dedication to their chosen profession.
Jazz Greats Speak: Interviews with Master Musicians brings those
fascinating discussions into one bound volume. Such jazz artists as
Lee Konitz, Mary Lou Williams, Dexter Gordon, Red Rodney, Stanley
Clarke, and John Tchicai talk about their art, how they got
interested in playing jazz, their influences, and about the many
different musicians with whom they worked. The interviewees openly
relate in their own words what jazz means to them and, in some
cases, share their viewpoints on politics, religion, and their
social life and conditions as a jazz artist in America or
elsewhere. The book covers a wide area of jazz but emphasizes the
period from the early 1940s into the 1960s. In their entirety, the
interviews give an insight into the development of jazz, from the
early days of the 1920s, over the formative 1940s and 1950s, and up
to the new trends of the 1980s. Complete with a beautiful selection
of photographs, brief biographies of each participant, and an
index, this volume will appeal to lovers of jazz, students of jazz,
and anyone interested in finding out what jazz and its
corresponding lifestyle is about.
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