Martin Williams is recognized as one of the most significant jazz critics of recent times. This third collection of record notes, interviews, portraits, and reviews recalls the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie Dial Record sessions, Langston Hughes reading poetry to the sound of jazz, and Thelonius Monk recording for the Library of Congress. In addition, there are profiles of such legendary performers as Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller,
and lively essays on the importance of jazz history and a jazz-view of The Beatles.
- ISBN10 0195083490
- ISBN13 9780195083491
- Publish Date 30 September 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English