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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (Dover Books On History) "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Charlie Parker "What is jazz? The rhythm the feeling." Coleman Hawkins "The best sound usually comes the first time you do something. If it's spontaneous, it's going to be rough, not clean, but it's going to have the spirit which is the essence of jazz." Dave Brubeck Here, in their own words, such famous jazz musicians as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Clarence Williams, Jo Jones, Jelly Roll Morton, Mezz Mezzrow, Billie Holiday, and many others recall the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years. From its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century in the red-light district in New Orleans (or Storyville, as it came to be known), to Chicago's Downtown section and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Chicago's South Side to jam sessions in Kansas City to Harlem during the Depression years, the West Coast and modern developments, the story of jazz is vividly and colorfully documented in hundreds of personal interviews, letters, tape recorded and tel

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Author

Nat Shapiro; Nat Hentoff

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1966

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486217260

Category

music

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

4.23 / 5 (106 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14