![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveJoe Goldberg "Jazz Masters Of The 50s" (Da Capo Paperback)
This is one of those jazz books you dip into any time and any order, as each chapter is a stand alone vignette of the oeuvre of a jazz musician at the time. Hence, you do not have to read it in one go. I started this book way back in December of last year, and randomly selected a chapter on one of the twelve jazz artists featured.
The book first came out in 1965 when these musicians were still alive.
There is a small discography at the end of each chapter highlighting , in the opinion of the writer, the best albums by the artist.
Overall, this is one of the more revealing jazz tomes I've read, with a good balance of critical acumen and affection for the music with the personal lives and relationships that informed the artists' creativity. The author, the late Joe Goldberg, was a true original who approached his subjects with awareness, awe, and a easy demeanor that led to great insights in his profiles of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Charles and others. If you've never read Goldberg before, you're likely to learn a few things here.
A must for the jazz aficionado.
This is one of those jazz books you dip into any time and any order, as each chapter is a stand alone vignette of the oeuvre of a jazz musician at the time. Hence, you do not have to read it in one go. I started this book way back in December of last year, and randomly selected a chapter on one of the twelve jazz artists featured.
The book first came out in 1965 when these musicians were still alive.
There is a small discography at the end of each chapter highlighting , in the opinion of the writer, the best albums by the artist.
Overall, this is one of the more revealing jazz tomes I've read, with a good balance of critical acumen and affection for the music with the personal lives and relationships that informed the artists' creativity. The author, the late Joe Goldberg, was a true original who approached his subjects with awareness, awe, and a easy demeanor that led to great insights in his profiles of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Charles and others. If you've never read Goldberg before, you're likely to learn a few things here.
A must for the jazz aficionado.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}