On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Barry Mazor wrote:
> While we're at it, I'd mention that what I AM reading right now, the
> book "The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing" by
> Jean A. Boyd, has become available in paperback at the same mega-onlines
> and elsewhere as the California book ...
> This author, as the title suggests, has much to say about how Western
> Swing is jazz at its root, underappreciated jazz, and maybe underplays
> the country side in saying so...
And the book was panned for doing just that by some western swing expert
(Kevin Coffey? Cary Ginell?) in a recent issue of (I think) the Journal Of
Country Music.--don
