Cats Of Any Color Jazz, Black And White

by Lees, Gene

• ISBN13: 9780306809507
• ISBN10: 0306809508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-29
• Publisher: Da Capo

Summary

In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazzboth the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and the prejudice that Lees documents of some black musicians against their white counterparts. With subjects ranging from Horace Silver to Dave Brubeck to Red Rodney, and a new introduction analyzing recent developments,Cats of Any Colorchronicles jazz as a multiethnic art.

Author Biography

Gene Lees, three-time winner of the ASCAP–Deems Taylor award, is the author of several books and his widely acclaimed Jazzletter. He lives in Ojai, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Da Capo Edition	p. xi
The Prez of Louisville	p. 3
Dr. de Lerma, I Presume	p. 19
The Man on the Buffalo Nickel: Dave Brubeck	p. 39
Growing Up in Los Angeles: Ernie Andrews	p. 63
Father and Son: Horace Silver	p. 77
The Nine Lives of Red Rodney	p. 91
The Philadelphia Connection: Benny Golson	p. 123
The Return of Red Mitchell	p. 143
Three Sketches	p. 167
Jazz Black and White	p. 187
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