Nat Hentoff: The Never-Ending Ball

AAJ: Taking a leaf out of your own book, is there anything you would like to add about At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene?

NH: As I wrote all of this I was seeing them and hearing them, which made me very pleased. One of the great things about being a reporter is that you get to meet people you would otherwise never meet. I became friends, for example with Malcolm X—which was to our mutual surprise—and an extraordinary guy called John Cardinal O'Connor in New York, and I also got to know Supreme Court Justice William Brennan very well. But the ones I most learned from as people are some of the musicians I've known; most of them are in the book so in a sense it was like having a soundtrack, an emotion track to my whole life. I'm glad I lived long enough to get this one out. But I still keep writing.

Selected Bibliography

Nat Hentoff, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene(UCP, 2010)
Nat Hentoff, American Music Is (Da Capo, 2004)
Nat Hentoff, Boston Boy: Growing up with Jazz and Other Rebellious Passions (Paul Dry Books, 2001)
Nat Hentoff, Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music (Harper Perennial,1995)
Nat Hentoff, Jazz Is (Limelight, 1976)
Nat Hentoff, Journey Into Jazz (Puntam Publishing Group,1971)
Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country (Rupert Hart Davis, 1965)
Nat Hentoff, The Jazz Life (Da Capo, 1961)
Nat Hentoff/Nat Shapiro, The Jazz Makers (Rinehart. 1957)
Nat Hentoff/Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (Dover, 1955)