Jazz Talking Profiles, Interviews, And Other Riffs On Jazz Musicians

by Jones, Max

• ISBN13: 9780306809484
• ISBN10: 0306809486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-05
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Max Jones, known affectionately as "the Boswell of bebop" (Time Out), was famed in England for nearly four decades of insightful, ardent writing on jazz. With this luminous collection of interviews, his work will at last be widely accessible to American readers. Here are the voices of jazzColeman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Billie Holiday, and Mary Lou Williams, to name but a fewin conversation with Jones, who could turn a casual chat into an indelible portrait and who gives American readers a view of these musicians they have never had before.

Author Biography

Max Jones (1920–1993) wrote and broadcast about jazz from 1942 to his death. In the 1940s he co-founded Jazz Music, and he was the principal jazz contributor to the British magazine Melody Maker for forty years.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Clarinet
Paul Barnes	1	(3)
Barney Bigard	4	(8)
Bob Wilber	12	(1)
Edmond Hall	13	(7)
Albert Nicholas	20	(13)
Saxophone
Bud Freeman	33	(12)
Stan Getz	45	(8)
Johnny Griffin	53	(3)
Coleman Hawkins	56	(2)
Johnny Hodges	58	(3)
Gerry Mulligan	61	(2)
Flip Phillips	63	(3)
Zoot Sims	66	(6)
Lucky Thompson	72	(6)
Ben Webster	78	(7)
Brass
Red Allen	85	(2)
Ruby Braff	87	(9)
Buck Clayton	96	(3)
Lee Collins	99	(5)
Harry `Sweets' Edison	104	(9)
Bobby Hackett	113	(13)
Preston Jackson	126	(14)
Thomas Jefferson	140	(3)
Jonah Jones	143	(2)
Max Kaminsky	145	(2)
Wingy Manone	147	(4)
Jimmy McPartland	151	(19)
Sy Oliver	170	(5)
Jim Robinson and Kid Howard	175	(3)
Rhythm Section
Piano
Mary Lou Williams	178	(30)
Joe Bushkin	208	(8)
Hoagy Carmichael	216	(4)
Guitar
Eddie Condon	220	(5)
Bass
Joe Benjamin	225	(3)
Slam Stewart	228	(5)
Singers
Billy Eckstine	233	(11)
Billie Holiday	244	(16)
Sarah Vaughan	260	(5)
Dinah Washington	265	(12)
Index	277	(16)
About the Author	293