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168 S.; Illustr.; 21 cm; kart.

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Gutes Ex.; Einband berieben. - Englisch. // ? In this volume, one of the most perceptive, opinionated, and vigorous of the young writers puts down the shoddy and the incidental figures, and lines out the reasons for the titans' pre-eminence. It is a useful book of short biographical notes and selective discographies, and in that sense it is "encyclopedic." But it is a personal work, first, and Reisner's views are not apt to be endorsed everywhere. Among the Reisner readers is jazz teacher and historian Marshall Stearns, who describes his work as "tasty, capsule commentary by one of the few original minds in jazz writing." A special feature is "The Parlance of Hip," the most up-to-date and authentic dictionary of a dynamic, sardonic argot. // INHALT : INTRO --- Count Basie, Art Blakey, Jimmy Blanton, Clifford Brown, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clark, Miles Davis, Billy Eckstine, Duke Ellington, Art Farmer, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Gigi Gryce, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Milt Jackson, J. J. Johnson, Charlie Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker, Oscar Pettiford, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, Frank Sinatra, Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano, Sarah Vaughan, Lester Young, THE PARLANCE OF HIP.