DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology

Frank Alkyer

Hal Leonard Corporation, 2009 - Music - 340 pages

Culled from the "DownBeat" archives, this work includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! It features classic photos and magazine covers from "DownBeat"'s vast archives. In honour of its 75th anniversary, "DownBeat"'s editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, "DownBeat". This anthology includes the greatest of "DownBeat"'s Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; to bebop heroes like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; to truly unique voices like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk; to the pioneers of the electric scene like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Joe Zawinul. "The Great Jazz Interviews" delivers the legends of jazz, talking about America's music and America itself, in their own words.

Contents

• RED NICHOLS Musicians Killed Bix Biederbecke by Carl Cons Aug 1937: 6
• HANDY I Would Not Play Jazz If I Could by W C Handy Sept 1938: 13
• TBONE WALKERGotta Feel the Blues to Play Em Asserts TBone by Dixon Gayer Oct 1 1942: 19
• LOUIS ARMSTRONGUlceratedly Yours by Louis Armstrong July 14 1950: 25
• JOE WILLIAMSThe Blues Is a Story by Joe Williams as told to Barbara J Gardner March 31 1960 74: 26
• TITO PUENTEThe Mambo They Shake APlenty with Tito Puente by Nat Hentoff Oct 6 1954: 53
• SARAH VAUGHANSoulful Sarah by Don Gold May 30 1957: 64
• A Portrait of Desperate Desmond by Marian McPartland Sept 15 1960: 78
• CHARLIE PARKERThe Years with Yard by Dizzy Gillespie with Gene Lees May 25 1961: 84
• BILL EVANSInside the New Bill Evans Trio by Gene Lees Nov 22 1962: 90
• BEN WEBSTERAn Afternoon with Ben Webster by Stanley Dance May 21 1964: 97
• THELONIOUS MONKMonk on Monk by Valerie Wilmer June 3 1965: 103
• HARRY CARNEY AND GERRY MULLIGANBlindfold Test by Leonard Feather Nov 18 1965: 110
• BUDDY RICHThe Nouveau Rich by Harvey Siders April 20 1967: 118
• NINA SIMONEThe Real Nina Simone by Michael Zwerin Jan 11 1968: 124
• WAYNE SHORTERCreativity and Change by Wayne Shorter Dec 12 1968: 130
• MILES DAVISAnd in This Corner the Sidewalk Kid by Don DeMicheal Dec 11 1969: 138
• CLARK TERRYBig BAD Brassman by Larry Birnbaum September 1981: 205
• ANTHONY BRAXTONPlay or Die by Peter Rothbart February 1982: 211
• BRIAN ENOExcursions in the Electronic Environment by Bill Milkowski June 1983: 218
• TONY WILLIAMSTwo Decades of Drum Innovation by Paul de Barros November 1983: 223
• CARLA BLEYMy Dinner with Carla by Don Palmer August 1984: 230
• HENRY THREADGILLMusic to Make the Sun Come Up by Howard Mandel July 1985: 237
• TERENCE BLANCHARD AND DONALD HARRISONYoung Gifted and Straight Ahead by Howard Mandel December 1986: 246
• JOE HENDERSONThe Sound That Launched 1000 Horns by Michael Bourne March 1992: 252
• STEPHANE GRAPELLI From Silent Movies to CDs by Stephanie Stein September 1992: 258
• HANK CRAWFORD AND DAVID SANBORNSoul Connection by Ed Enright October 1994: 264
• DR JOHNTemple of Big Band by Michael Bourne July 1995: 271
• MCCOY TYNER AND MICHAEL BRECKERAn Easy Marriage of Styles by Martin Johnson January 1996: 278
• STEVE LACYForget Paris by John Corbett February 1997: 286
• LOUIE BELLSON ROY HAYNES ELVIN JONES AND MAX ROACHOnce in a Lifetime by Ed Enright November 1998: 295
• JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRASouthern Swing by Paul de Barros October 2000: 302
• TONY BENNETTThe Art of Being Bennett by Michael Bourne January 2002: 309
• THE HEATH BROTHERSBlindfold Test by Dan Ouellette February 2003: 316
• HANK JONESFamily Legacy by Joe Lovano June 2005: 323
• DAVE DOUGLASMastering His Music by Steve Coleman with Dan Ouellette August 2006: 331
• DAVE BRUBECKThat Old Cowboy by David French January 2008: 337

Bibliographic information

• Title: DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology
• Editor: Frank Alkyer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2009
• ISBN: 1423463846, 9781423463849
• Length: 340 pages
• Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz; Music / History & Criticism; Music / Reference