Offering a kaleidoscopic vision of the jazz scene, this work features interviews with 24 instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them.
Offering a kaleidoscopic vision of the jazz scene, this work features interviews with 24 instrumentalists and singers who talk candidly about the early influences that started them on the road to jazz and where that road has taken them.
W. Royal Stokes has written about jazz and blues for such publications as Down Beat, JazzTimes, and The Washington Post and hosted the public radio shows "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say" and Since Minton's. He is the former editor of Jazz Notes, the quarterly journal of the Jazz Journalists Association, and author of The Jazz Scene, Swing Era New York, and Living the Jazz Life. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Introduction 1: Keepers of the Flame 2: Modernists 3: Visionaries and Eclectics Acknowledgements Index
