Collects interviews from DownBeat's seventy-five year history, including conversations with Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, T

In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth,

Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issue