Culled from the DownBeat archives - includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist
and personality that ever lived! Features classic photos and magazine covers from DownBeat's vast archives. In honor of its
75th anniversary, DownBeat's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs
from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat. This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat's
Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman;
to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices
like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick
Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. The Great Jazz Interviews delivers the legends of jazz, talking about
America's music and America itself, in their own words.
Hal Leonard Downbeat - The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology Features:
- Softcover
- 340 pages
- Size: 10-3/4" x 8-1/4"
- Editor: Frank Alkyer
- ISBN: 1423463846
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