The emphasis is on the people in these fourteen interviews, the
personalities behind the jazz, their moods ambitions, influences.
Like drummer Billy Higgins rappin' about gigs with Ornette Coleman
when nobody was in to his kind of music - "Cats wouldn't even dig
being around him. . . . When he started playing, they figured,
'Well, if that's what's happening, where am I?'" Or the Black
Bartok, composer Cecil Taylor, talking about influence John Cage
and his own frustrations in American society. Or old timer Buck
Clayton pounding out his own personal enthusiasm - "First of all,
music is a ball. It's - what you call it - self-inspiration. If
nobody else is going to inspire you, you inspire yourself and you
end up just playing." Other interviewees include Eddie Davis, Art
Farmer, Babs Gonzales, Jimmy Heath, Thelonious Monk, Archie Shepp,
Big Joe Turner and Randy Weston. The author observes well and the
profiles are short and sharp with high notes for the buff. (Kirkus
Reviews)
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.
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