Fasteau/Howard/Few

Fasteau/Howard/Few: Expatriate Kin

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2000

Despite jazz’s current recognition in many scholarly circles as one of America’s only original art forms the music’s practitioners haven’t always enjoyed such prestigious accolades. The fact that so many jazz musicians were forced to seek solace on foreign shores during the 50s, 60s and 70s as a respite from the indifference (and even hostility) afforded them in the United States speaks to one of the criminal injustices in the music’s history. The ironic flipside of this unfortunate necessity is ...