Quotable Jazz is a book of quotations by and about jazz musicians and jazz music compiled and edited by Marshall Bowden, who writes the “Late Night Thoughts on Jazz“ column here at AAJ as well as running the Jazzitude.com website. Rather than yet another lengthy history of jazz with an ideological axe to grind, Quotable Jazz offers insight into the minds behind some of the best music and writing in jazz. It covers all styles of jazz, from ragtime and Dixieland to avant-garde and fusion, but makes no judgments, leaving the reader to develop their own opinions or read and listen further. Readers of Quotable Jazz will come away interested, enlightened, and no longer intimidated by jazz.
Topics covered include many familiar to most jazz musicians and fans: the definition of jazz, of swinging, drugs, drink, sex, the gig, the audience, other musicians, race, the many kinds of jazz, etc. There is enough ammunition here to keep jazz aficionados, musicians, and casual readers talking for weeks, maybe even months. In addition, the 28 caricatures by Toronto artist Mike Rooth will delight and amuse jazz fans.
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For more information contact All About Jazz.
