At the jazz band ball sixty years on the jazz scene /

Hentoff, Nat.

At the jazz band ball sixty years on the jazz scene / [electronic resource] : Nat Hentoff ; foreword by Lewis Porter. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010. - xvii, 246 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. What am I here for? : the rules of my jazz odyssey -- pt. 2. In the presence of Ellington -- pt. 3. Jazz credentials -- pt. 4. The jazz life on and off the road -- pt. 5. Who is a jazz singer? -- pt. 6. The life force of the music -- pt. 7. Finding the first American groove -- pt. 8. Roots -- pt. 9. The survivors -- pt. 10. The regenerators -- pt. 11. The master teachers.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780520945883 (electronic bk.)




Music--History and criticism.
Jazz--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

ML60 / .H4982 2010

781.6509