Hey, Neal, I'm probably past your gift-buying deadline, and I'm not even
exactly on-topic, but the jazz gem I've been enjoying lately is "Reading
Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to
Now" ed. by Robert Gottlieb. It's a chunky monkey, weighing in at 1000+
Good morning, Anyone know of a good Coltrane bio to recommend? Or even a good
book that looks at the whole (or some) of the bebop jazz greats? Gift shopping
today.
Neal Weiss
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Good morning, Anyone know of a good Coltrane bio to recommend? Or even a good
book that looks at the whole (or some) of the bebop jazz greats?
Eric Nisenson's "Ascension - John Coltrane and His Quest" is
good. The book "Jazz Anecdotes" is pretty hilarious
reading
I'll second Nisenson's "Ascension" for the Coltrane bio. I've got a couple
Trane bios and some are horrible.
One of my favorite jazz books is David Rosenthal's "Hard Bop" which covers
that particular brand of jazz from the 1955-65 era. Not bebop, but the music
played by the likes of Art Blakey,
