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Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interiews: 2009 | Frank Alkyer & Ed Enright
In honor of its 75th anniversary, publisher Frank Alkyer, with the assistance of the magazine’s editors past and present, has combed through the vast DownBeat archives and assembled a compendium of the magazine’s most celebrated, historical, and groundbreaking features, in-depth interviews, insights, classic photographs and magazine covers 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. At times this collection reads less like a book and more like a conversation about jazz among the artists themselves.
